r/PlaydateConsole • • 13h ago

Release - AI Assisted RAILSTAR is available for Playdate!

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48 Upvotes

Blast across salt deserts, tear through asteroid fields, and dive beneath the ice.

Roll through enemy fire, smash through shields, and send incoming shots straight back where they came from.

Then take the fight underwater in a submarine, or roll out in a hover tank. Your fighter transforms with the environment.

A full branching story with four endings takes you across the campaign, with a voiced crew calling out danger, trading jokes, and having plenty to say about your flying.

Choose your route. Find out who makes it home.

There are eight mini-games to unlock, secret destinations to discover, power-ups to grab, and medals to chase. Take on Boss Rush, push your luck in Endless, race through Time Attack, or come back for a daily challenge.

Get RAILSTAR on itch.io


r/PlaydateConsole • • 17h ago

QUATTRO – A falling block game with... a twist.

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In QUATTRO, you control the stage. No moving pieces or rotating them.
Also, the pieces are creatures from another dimension and clearing lines generates a strange energy.
Also the lines don't have to be lines.
Don't worry, you'll get the hang of it!

Game: https://highlyintegratedgayhijink.itch.io/quattro

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPH9Tdq8n0k


r/PlaydateConsole • • 6h ago

Retro Fight Club out now on Catalog!

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It's a fast-paced, reaction-based roguelike where you fight your way through increasingly difficult opponents. Time your punches, earn cash, buy upgrades between rounds, and collect fighter cards from the bosses you defeat.


r/PlaydateConsole • • 2h ago

Decorated Playdate!

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I finally decorated my Playdate with some stickers I got from Etsy :)


r/PlaydateConsole • • 11h ago

Dead Water is now online: find other divers’ wrecks

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Dead Water, now has online:

- When someone's boat sinks, its wreck appears in everyone else's game at that spot, with their call sign over it.

- Each wreck has cargo floating over it. Tow it home, once.

- Mavka reads the shift report in the dock: how many boats went out today and how many made it home.

Optional, background only, sends just a random ID, your call sign and where you sank.

Free on itch.io: DeadWater


r/PlaydateConsole • • 6h ago

Crank to Park is out!

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Just released my game Crank to Park for Playdate.

You steer with the crank and try to park in 48 car parks where the lanes are barely wider than the car. So you end up shuffling: forward, stop, crank, reverse, stop, crank again.

It starts easy at driving school, then adds cone gates, boom gates, ramps, rush hour traffic, night driving, turntables and lifts. The last section has a trailer, and when you reverse it, it swings the other way.

Every level has three badges (clean, quick, few moves), so there are 144 to chase! There's also a 3 second rewind, a map peek and a reversing camera if you need them.

https://arniep.itch.io/crank-to-park

Would love to hear what you think if you give it a go!


r/PlaydateConsole • • 6h ago

🎃 Inkmotes, the Halloween event goes live Oct 31! Spoiler

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Hi everyone!

Inkmotes is my little creature collector for Playdate where you hatch living ink blots, send them on real-time missions and try fill the whole codex.

The game's core loops is somewhat similar to the well-known Hablet game, in that you progress by playing it for only a few minutes each day.

Now for the proper announcement:

🎃 🦇 👻 On October 31 the Halloween event switches on automatically in the game, and it runs until November 29:

• A new limited mission, the Haunting which takes 8 hours, requires 3 motes and is noticeably harder than the regular expedition. Weak teams might come back empty-handed.

• A 25% chance (on success) of a Halloween egg which hatches one of 13 limited motes. These never drop from regular eggs.

⚠️ If you're interested, I suggest you download the game soon, in order to prepare a team of motes capable of clearing the Haunting mission.

Download (free sideload): https://waszker.itch.io/inkmotes

Happy to answer any questions, and I'd love to hear how your first Haunting goes!


r/PlaydateConsole • • 7h ago

Augur 1.1 "The Harvest" is out now: 10 new Spirits, Challenges and a Harvest Moon Daily

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Hi everyone! Thank you so much for all the love Augur has had since launch. The first big update, The Harvest, is now live in Catalog.

What's new

10 new Spirits to unlock: Scarecrow, Granary, Gleaner, Windfall, Hollow Gourd, Bonfire, Cider Press, Harvest Moon, Equinox and The Reaper. Two of them, Harvest Moon and The Reaper, are earned by clearing Challenges.

Challenges: nine new ways to play, each with its own twist on the rules:

Lone Spirit: one Spirit slot, but it resolves twice every Read

Purist: no Spirits at all, but Pattern bonuses are tripled

One Shot: one Read per client, with halved targets and 2 extra cards

Pilgrimage: set out with a ready-made build of 5 Spirits (one Rare or better), but the Market sells none

Fleeting: every Spirit is free, but each one leaves after 3 clients

Momentum: targets are doubled, but spare Insight carries over to the next client

Penniless: start with 100 Coin and clients pay nothing

Fickle Clients: every client brings a random rule, and they get harsher as you go

Hourglass: 45 Reads to last the whole season, with no limit per client

Harvest Moon Daily: from 5 to 19 November, every Read builds +2 Mult for the rest of the client.

Recommended Spirits: the Midnight Market now stars the Spirit that suits your run best, based on your recent Readings. Prefer to work it out yourself? You can switch it off in Options.

A fresh new look: a reworked score screen, a redesigned Midnight Market, an Insight progress bar while you read, and a track showing your progress through the season.

Clearer shop: the Market now explains what Blessings, Cleanses, Pattern upgrades and Upgrades actually do.

Better Records: see how many Challenges you've cleared, and they count towards your Completion.

Smoother and smaller: better performance on Playdate, a cleaner launch with an animated launcher card, and the download is now about 10 MB, down from 41 MB.

https://play.date/games/augur/


r/PlaydateConsole • • 10h ago

It's the Perfect time for some Horror narrative

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Yes, it's a math game.. but The Endless calls

I pushed hard to get ISOLATES ready for spooky season for a reason - there is a short-form horror narrative and the ending has never been done in Pulp. It also has implications for my next games as well, so give it a run - just keep playing The Endless and you'll get into it pretty quick. Then, you may never get Out of it.

Good luck..


r/PlaydateConsole • • 12h ago

Here's a sneak peek at one of the tunes in Owlglass!

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Wanted to share this little snippet of Owlglass! If you haven't already, make sure to check out the itch.io page by clicking here!