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Playdate Update #1: 6/8/21

Playdate Update #1: 6/8/21

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Mars After Midnight

Mars After Midnight

Lucas Pope

Mars After Midnight is an entrant-screening, mess-tidying, session-planning, martian-filled game for Playdate.

IndieSimulator
Crankin's Time Travel Adventure

Crankin's Time Travel Adventure

uvula, Panic

Crankin loves taking naps, but that is always the cause of more trouble. Being late to work or missing flights, and today he woke from a nap at the exact time he was supposed to meet a date. Advance or rewind Crankin's timeline. Hurry to the meeting place where your loved one, Crankette, is waiting, and apologize for being late.

IndiePlatformPuzzle
Battleship Godios

Battleship Godios

TPM.CO SOFT WORKS, Panic

Battleship Godios is a game with a high level of difficulty and trial & error gameplay that makes retrying inevitable. Use the limited number of bullets to break down battleships!

IndieShooter
Boogie Loops

Boogie Loops

May-Li Khoe, Andy Matuschak, Andres Velasquez, Panic

A pizza, a bunny, a cactus, and a panda wander into the woods. Nobody suspects they can dance, but secretly they share dreams of spreading their fuzzy, spikey, cheesy joy far beyond the woods and into the great wide world. But there's a problem: they’re missing music. That's where you come in. Set the beats for their boogie, the tones for their twerk, the swing for their steps.

Music
Casual Birder

Casual Birder

Diego Garcia, Panic

Casual Birder is a snap-'em-all adventure set in beautiful seaside Bird Town. You've just moved into a birdwatcher's paradise… At least it used to be, before some bad eggs moved in and shoved the competition out of the nest. Can a fledgling photographer like you make a mark in the cut-throat world of hobby bird photography? Better get crankin'!

AdventureIndie
Demon Quest '85

Demon Quest '85

Crooked Park, Panic

In Demon Quest '85 you play an ordinary, everyday kid with ordinary, everyday problems. You also have a magical book for summoning demons from the lowest circles of Hell so that they can help you be more popular at school.

AdventureIndieVisual Novel
Echoic Memory

Echoic Memory

Samantha Zero, Panic

Echoic Memory is a musical puzzle game that utilizes the player's own sensory memory and a playful twist of the crank. With two modes, its story mode explores the meaning of memories. Echoic Memory was made by a small team before and during the pandemic.

IndieMusicPuzzle
Executive Golf DX

Executive Golf DX

davemakes, Panic

In Executive Golf DX, live the ultimate dream of corporate advancement by golfing your way to the top of a procedurally generated office building. Enterprising individuals may elect to use an array of unconventional abilities while climbing the ladder of success, but what will truly drive you towards greatness in business is the quality shared by all great thought leaders: A perfect backswing.

IndieSport
Flipper Lifter

Flipper Lifter

Serenity Forge, Panic

Elevate these penguins to new heights! Using the Playdate's crank, take penguins through hotels, construction zones, and even into space! But watch out for those pesky eagles who are always looking for their next meal. Featuring 5 endless levels and local high scores, test your skills and your abilities as you manage these cute (but impatient) penguins.

ArcadeIndiePlatform
Forrest Byrnes: Up in Smoke

Forrest Byrnes: Up in Smoke

Nels Anderson, Christina Neofotistou, Panic

Join FORREST BYRNES to fight a malignant blaze threatening our sumptuous woodlands! CAN you save the wayward campers? Will you SEE the danger that stalks the forest? Only YOU can help Forrest stop this shameful waste!

IndiePlatform
HYPER METEOR

HYPER METEOR

Vertex Pop

YOU ARE LOST IN SPACE! ALL WEAPONS ARE DOWN! Survive by ramming your ship into meteors and hostile forces.

ActionArcadeIndieShooter
Lost Your Marbles

Lost Your Marbles

Sweet Baby, Panic

Lost Your Marbles is a charming visual novel where the roll of a marble makes all the difference. Join PROTA in this branching-narrative adventure as she makes her way through Pomegranate Village on a quest to find her lost dog MINTY and make it to the annual Festi-Ball before day's end.

IndieVisual Novel
Omaze

Omaze

Gregory Kogos, Panic

Omaze is a circular puzzle platformer. An ode to circles. A hint to the never ending struggle against the perceived enemy.

IndiePlatformPuzzle
Pick Pack Pup

Pick Pack Pup

Logan Gabriel, Arthur Hamer, Nic Magnier, Panic

Pick Pack Pup is a match-3 puzzle game where matches don't disappear immediately, making each new move trickier. In the game you play as Pup, the newest employee at a fulfillment center, who will discover the ups and downs of packing boxes and will unpack a lot of surprises along the way.

IndiePuzzle
Questy Chess

Questy Chess

Dadako, Panic

Deep in an ever advancing computer, forgotten and unchanged, remains chess program v1. Peace is shattered by a software update! Can you stop the invading bytes before being overwritten?

Card & Board GameIndieRole-playing (RPG)Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Ratcheteer

Ratcheteer

Shaun Inman, Panic

Play as an apprentice mechanic tasked with maintaining steam-powered cryo-colonies constructed for humanity to sleep out an impact winter following a celestial collision. Your master mechanic is abducted during some unplanned maintenance, setting off a lo-fi, top-down, action-adventure that finds the young Ratcheteer exploring the interconnected tunnels below the surface and a vast snowcean above to rescue friends, foes, and strangers alike.

AdventureIndie
Sasquatchers

Sasquatchers

Chuck Jordan, Panic

Sasquatchers is a turn-based tactical cryptozoology game. The player controls a team of fame-seeking scientist-influencers traveling through increasingly dark and creepy forest areas, trying to set up the best possible angles for photos and video of elusive cryptids.

IndieTacticalTurn-based strategy (TBS)
Snak

Snak

Zach Gage, Panic

Snak is Snake plus jump.

ArcadeIndie
Spellcorked!

Spellcorked!

Team Bottle, Panic

In this laid-back magical gig economy crafting game, you are a recently-graduated young witch trying to thrive in a digital age. With a bit of help and a lot of love, fulfill potion orders for people you never meet, and try to get the best reviews you can!

IndieSimulator
Saturday Edition

Saturday Edition

Wild Rose, Panic

Saturday Edition tells the story of John Kornfield, a security technician who made headlines in 1976 with his account of alien abduction, life on another world, and eventual return to earth. Ten years later, Kornfield once again finds himself the subject of public interest when a string of disappearances coincide with sightings of mysterious lights in the night sky.

AdventureIndie
Recommendation Dog!!

Recommendation Dog!!

Sweet Baby

Recommendation Dog!! is an adorable action-puzzle game about being a tiny dog with a very big job. You work at a temp agency, cranking through names in your rotary organizer to fulfill the wacky, lovely, and strange requests of the people who come through your door. Connect the right people with the places that need them, make fast-paced choices, and get the high score you deserve! Good boy. This is Recommendation Dog - and you are a very good boy indeed.

IndiePuzzle
Reel Steal

Reel Steal

Sweet Baby

Reel Steal is a heist game where a mysterious figure hires thieves to reclaim loot & justice. As renegades, nab appropriated art from evil billionaires, hurriedly making calling cards to leave in their place. The hook? You're armed only with a fishing pole.

ArcadeIndie
Faraway Fairway

Faraway Fairway

Rokashi Games

Faraway Fairway is arcade golf game that is procedurally generated and you'll never play the same game twice! Explore and interact as you make your way to the goal and uncover secrets as you progress and complete your photo album! As a mental health golf game, Faraway Fairway game is designed to be a relaxing pick up and play. Taking care of your mental health should be like a vacation that never ends.

AdventureArcadeIndieSport
Direct Drive

Direct Drive

DACvector

Direct Drive is a silent-movie-musical game about being an intern in the music industry in 1927.

Music
Playmaker

Playmaker

Dustin Mierau

Paint, compose, build, record, and dance your way across six playful creative spaces for your Playdate.

IndieSimulator