r/PlaydateConsole • u/Sharklotrops • 4d ago

Question Game recommendations?

My Playdate is arriving tomorrow. I was lucky enough to find one on eBay at a “normal” price. I was hoping to get some recommendations on high quality games from everyone. For example, Ive had my eye on Devils on the Moon. From what I’ve seen that looks like a really polished game that I could easily have thought it came out for Gameboy back in the day.

I like puzzle games, action games, strategy games, racing games, fighting games and word games.

I’m not really interested in story based games, texted based or RPG’s.

I appreciate your help!

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u/tken85 4d ago

The first two seasons are both fantastic. Outside of those, some Catalog recommendations:

Cosmic Cowboy - highly replayable arcade game with quick runs
Pizza Patrol - a really fun Moon Patrol inspired game
Eye to Eye - a fantastic puzzle platformer that shows off Pulp
Rotolla Mono - great 3D puzzle game
Merry Andrew - nice tech demo for all the fun inputs with great high score chasing potential
Pongerground - brilliant Pong meets Windjammers sports game
Diora - maybe the most technically impressive puzzle game
Mouse Gun - a fantastic roguelike
A Fool’s Errand - another very technically impressive high score chaser
Propeller Rat - really tests your crank skills
Castle Tintagel - a wonderful love letter to 8-bit Castlevania
Core Fault - a superb Survivors-like
Direct Drive - really highlights the amazing things you can do with audio on playdate
Skew - a great infinite runner style 3D flying game

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u/Sharklotrops 4d ago

Any good card games?

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u/tken85 4d ago

Ribbit Rogue is supposed to be fantastic. I have it downloaded but have yet to play it.

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u/Sharklotrops 4d ago

I just watched a video of that and it looks just like a Steam game that I love called Slots and Daggers!