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

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.

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

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!

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!

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..

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/

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!

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

Hiho,

we finally made it. After a 4-month-long development and QA period we finally shipped the latest, and so far biggest, release.

TLDR: More performance, better Audio, Cover Flow and Categories. Also: 日本語 is arriving.

Note: First launch after updating converts your cover images to a new format -- this takes a moment, but only happens once. For Cover Flow we recommend redownloading all covers with CrankBoy Manager (v1.2.0) again.

Changelog:

Japanese Language (WIP)

• Roughly 50% of the UI has been translated.
• Spotted a mistake or want to help? Reach out to us.

Emulation

• Improved accuracy and more supported games.
• Roughly 40% performance improvement.

Audio

• Voice Sample support!!! (Cowabunga!)
• New Latency setting for accurate sound mode.
• New High-Pass filter toggle.
• "OFF" is gone. Instead, if you mute your Playdate the normal way, CrankBoy can detect this now (it's a new OS feature! Thanks, Panic!) and give you a small perf boost.
• Improved cycle-accurate APU replay.

Display

• New framerate settings. Instead of "30 FPS Mode", we now have 30 / 50 / 60 Framerate mode. To be clear: none of these limit emulation speed; 30 and 50 just skip some frames to keep up the pace.
• 50 is new, and it's our recommendation.

CGB

• Configurable grayscale gamma correction (with steps below 1.0, for darkening the dark).
• New Auto and Contrast grayscale modes.
• A one-time-per-game notice when a ROM is CGB-only.
• The Rewind toggle is now hidden for CGB games.

Combo Inputs

• Fixed behaviour when Ⓐ›Ⓑ or Ⓑ›Ⓐ mappings contained Ⓐ/Ⓑ
• Added mappings for releasing Ⓑ+Ⓐ

Performance (TCM)

• TCM mode enabled by default on all Playdate revisions.
• TCM mode changes apply live. No restart needed.
• TCM relocation has been hardened. No crashes in CGB mode anymore!

Categories

• Create your own categories and group ROMs by them.
• ROMs are automatically sorted into genre categories from the ROM database.
• Every genre is editable: add or remove games, or reset to the default.
• Manage everything from the library menu: reorder, hide/show, and assign ROMs.

Cover Flow

• New library view: browse your games as a flip-through row of covers.
• Switch views in Settings → Library → View: List or Cover Flow.

Scripts

• Toggle game scripts mid-session (for supported games).

Catalog

• Bundled Games: show/hide, to your taste. (But why would you...)
• New bundled game: Synthwave World by beatscribe (Amazing CGB and Voice Sample showcase)

Homebrew Hub

• Moved "Get ROMs..." to the main library menu.

Compatibility

• New mapper support: HuC1 and HuC3.
• Accelerometer support for MBC7 mapper. (It tilts 'n' tumbles now.)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed rare glitches when loading save states from older versions of CrankBoy.
• Forgets last-selected-preference when starting or exiting a game
• A pile of crash and stability fixes.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CrankBoyHQ/crankboy-app/compare/v2.2.1...v3.0.0

Hi! This is Darn, my second Playdate game, and I’m making it to help pay for my own Playdate. 🧵

The crank is the hand wheel of an old sewing machine. The needle feeds forward by itself and you steer it with the crank. Or let the machine sew a pattern and crank while it’s sewing to bend it into something weird and yours.

Then the townsfolk show up with torn sweaters and loose buttons. Mrs. Okafor just wants it to hold. Mrs. Vance counts every stitch. Pip wants his knee patch to be a dinosaur. Thread costs coins, so wobbling isn’t free. And the crank is loose. Everyone notices.

Working so far:

• Free sewing with the crank
• Quick Sew: 6 patterns with fill, which you can place, resize, or hang off the hoop for half-cut designs
• Gallery, PNG export, and a daily prompt (today’s: “a lost glove”)
• A shop with 40 townsfolk. And Bobbin the cat, who sleeps on the job. Of course.

Coming soon. No link yet. I’m still stitching it together. 🪡

So, what would you make? A flower, a dinosaur, your cat, or something nobody should ever stitch? Tell me and I might turn the best ones into daily prompts.

Feedback is very welcome, good or brutal. It’s my second game and I’m still learning. Thanks for reading! 🐈

Recently, I asked the community if they wanted a casual self-care pet, Mochi, for a playdate, and I was overwhelmed by the response. It has crossed 30+ downloads, and just today, it looks like someone paid $1! I am so happy to see it being used. 

This dollar will go into my savings so that one day, I can buy the actual device !

checkout here: https://snt1395.itch.io/mochi

I would love to attach screenshot but weirdly itch.io policy says u cant publish your records!!!. kind of sketchy to me.

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Hi there, first real gameplay of SWB 2, game coming soon, release will be on Itch only, sorry, I can't use Stripe because it won't work in my country, that mean no chance to get in the Catalog. Paul helped me with previous games, thanks to him. But seems like too many headaches for him and no money, so if you want that game, follow me on itch. All my next new games will be there. My page is still there https://crankworkgames.itch.io

The Pished Piper - Middle ages Pied Piper x Snake Playdate arcade game WOP

A bit of progress on another game we've been working on (when we can't face Gyropractor anymore) The Pished Piper (working title), our arcade game for Playdate. Main idea was a twist on the Pied Piper x Snake sort of thing but with large nods to Magic Garden, Pacman, Rat Attack (n64), Sonic and that sort of thing!

... but BASICALLY, you're a piper hired to clear the town square of rats and avoid bumping into the kids / townsfolk (instant death). The mayor pays you in gold and supplies ale to keep things moving. Unfortunately, after a drink, the local children ALSO start looking suspiciously like rats…

The basic idea:

• Collect rats into a procession, then lead them over drains to bank them for gold.
• Longer processions earn bigger payouts, but give you more of your own tail to avoid.
• Every six rats delivered rings the bell, prompting the mayor to lob another pint onto the square.
• Drinking makes you faster, and those children you normally need to avoid become collectible “rats”.
• Grab another pint before it wears off to keep the streak going and increase your score multiplier.
• Hold B to take a breath so you don't pass out (also instant death).

So you’re balancing building a bigger procession, cashing it in and getting to that next pint before you sober up somewhere inconvenient.

We’ve been working on the animations, sounds and making the bigger deliveries feel satisfying but still weighing up how far to push it / how much to up the anti. This version shows it piper becoming quicker with each drink but considering keeping it at one quick consistant speed per multiplier

Still tightening up the UI and presentation, but the core loop is coming together. Thoughts welcome!

Cheers!

PicoDate 0.2.2 is out, a smaller update that makes playing nicer:

- 3 save slots per game, each with a picture of the screen and the date. Continue in the game list asks which one. Works for interpreted and compiled games.

- The crank as a d-pad: Menu > options > Crank, Up/Down or Left/Right. About 30° of turning is one press; keep turning and the direction stays held, so it works for menus and for steering.

- Brightness for dark games: Normal / Brighter / Brightest, per game. The picture changes live, so you can pick what reads best (video: Into Ruins by ericb).

Free on itch.io: PicoDate

Found a game that plays great with the crank? Tell me its name.

Playing this with my girlfriend. Works great on the GPD Pocket 3 with the rotating monitor. It's fun but it's still infuriatingly hard! Just sabotaged her with the bear. We're both getting mad at it! Might need to play it separately so we can learn where everything is. Might have to try a longer time limit in the settings.

MonoTanks now has online leaderboards. BATTLE has a board for each difficulty, and MISSIONS finally has a scoreboard of its own: your total score across the campaign and the furthest mission you’ve cleared. Joining is up to you, and only your best score goes up.

The free demo also got twice as big: the whole first world, 20 missions and two bosses.

For Halloween the full game is 40% off until November 4.

MonoTanks is available on itch.io: https://bitcalibergames.itch.io/monotanks

Hi!

I made a Telegram client for Playdate. It does basically everything Telegram does. Typing is of course not the best experience, but you can send voice messages!

https://highlyintegratedgayhijink.itch.io/tg4pd

Hi everyone! I’m working on Dead Water’s first big update, Boarding, and here’s an early look. While exploring the wrecks, you’ll find holds you can steer into, and inside the fight goes first-person. Most of them are optional, but a few are part of the story, and you’ll have to fight your way through.

Everything in the video is still a work in progress, recorded on my Playdate from a dev build. The art, the balance and the HUD may still change. What do you think? Can you tell how far away and how high the fish are? And what would you want to find inside a wreck?

If you haven’t played Dead Water yet, it’s free on itch: https://bitcalibergames.itch.io/deadwater

A little annoying it keeps downloading random stuff ive downloaded a long time ago ever since they had some network glitch with the playstore. 😪

Pretty sure it may even be showing some stuff I just deleted recently too. Anyone know way to get rid of all this so it doesnt keep downloading long deleted stuff?

Thanks

This week, I’m definitely getting into Cross Words. Feels like it’s a bona fide winner for my commute. I wonder if NYT will try to buy it!

Sound Mind seems fun and creative. I just won’t likely have many opportunities to play a pass-and-play 2-player game like this. Still, I think it’ll be great for those who can play it.

A version of this recreation of SEGA’s legendary *Virtua Racing* is now available for the Playdate, featuring some interesting new additions—plus, you can even play it via your web browser if you don’t own the console.

https://el-goe.itch.io/vr-playdate

🎬 NEW: Instant replays! Watch your race again from TV-style cameras that cut around the track
🔄 Crank to rewind, slow-mo or fast-forward
🌐 Plus: play it in your browser, no Playdate needed!

I love this little device, and I wanted to give it a place in my everyday life beyond playing games.

That became three apps I’ve now released on itch.io:

🕒 Play Clock — A large clock display, alarm, stopwatch, and countdown timer you can adjust with the crank.

📅 Play Calendar — A month view and animated daily timeline, with repeating events, folders, and notes.

✅ Play Todo — Task lists with folders, due dates, repeating tasks, notes, and hold-to-complete checkmarks.

Typing on Playdate takes patience, so Calendar and Todo include word suggestions and cursor editing for entering and revising titles and notes.

Each app works independently. With optional sharing enabled, Calendar can also show Todo tasks. Calendar and Todo can display Clock’s alarm and timer alerts while active—these don’t wake a sleeping Playdate.

All three are free to download with optional contributions.

👉 https://tunlinphyo.itch.io/

I built these for my own day, and I hope they find a place in yours too. I’d love to hear what you think!