If you would like review codes for any of these games, and you have a Playdate, reach out and we will try our best to accommodate.
We are unfortunately not able to provide additional Playdate hardware review units at this time. Out Today:
- NECROCRISIS - $8
- By Strangest.io
- Description: NECROCRISIS is an on-rails fight-for-your-life arcade shooter through a graveyard full of unimaginable horrors. Crank up your state-of-the-art gatling gun and blast through undead hordes to save the world from zombification. NECROCRISIS features hand-drawn art to set the scene for an apocalypse unlike any other, it will have you looking over your shoulder for shambling undead long after you've powered down your Playdate.
- Credits: Hunter Ward, Systems Director. Matt Lasnicki, Creative Director. Donald Trojcak, Game Director. Jack Lathrop, Narrative Director. Jake Race, Artist. Nelson Ricardo, Artist. Nelson Ricardo, Artist. Adam Espino, Artist. Mucoid, Musician. Sora the Troll, Voiceover.
- Generations - $6
- By Scenic Route Software
- Description: Generations is a challenging puzzle game that has you organizing Portraits on the wall of a living room, a task requiring a surprising amount of strategy, planning, and thinking ahead. Each time you hang three (or more) portraits of any family members of the same age group next to each other, their portraits will combine into a new portrait of an older family member!
- Castle Helios - $7
- By Patrick Witmer
- Description: Castle Helios is an exploration and puzzle adventure game with a bit of combat. Recently having lost his powers while fighting the current ruler of Castle Helios, the evil King Etanakh, the wizard Solus must find the 6 Magic Keys that will allow him to escape the Castle alive
Use magic spells to help you traverse the Castle's rooms, kill or evade monsters, defeat bosses, and solve puzzles. But first, you must find the magic items that grant you these abilities.
- Loopsy - $5
- By Paul
- Description: Loopsy is a quirky arcade / puzzle game created exclusively for Playdate. The goal of the game is simple. Create as many loops as you can before the board fills up or the timer expires. The pieces get harder and the timer speeds up the more loops you make.
- Along Came a Spider - $2
- By fatnose games
- Description: A pocket sized, cranking adventure. Tasked with retrieving an heirloom for The Monarch of The Hollow, a cunning spider by the name of Eric Nid leaves the nest and steps out into Spindleton to fulfill his quest - but the town is full of danger. Luckily, Eric isn't alone - a plucky band of memorable spider siblings can be found to aid him on his way. Search high and low to find a path to the heirloom and crank with precision to overcome the obstacles standing in your way.
- Credits: George Banks & Jonny Brooks of fatnose games. XaniaLasagna, cover art.
- Legend of Etad - $12
- By Gareth Williams
- Description: A first-person dungeon crawler in the vein of classics such as Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder. Expect lots of environments to explore, enemies to defeat, weapons and items and magic to wield, and puzzles to solve!
- Time From Earth - $3
- By Pixel Ghost
- Description: Time From Earth is a narrative adventure game in space where you set out on a search for a planet suitable for sustaining human life whilst Earth recovers. Experience a day-to-day system, speak to everyone & complete tasks on your ship, and at the end of the day, head back to the accommodation to start the next day. Uncover a mystery onboard the ship… Made in Pulp!
- Credits: Ollie Coe made the game. Ben Perry made the awesome sound & music. Elliott Coe came up with the initial concept and co-developed. SquidGodDev taught Ollie most of what he knows about Pulp and game development in general.
- Spike II: The Great Emu War - $5
- By Goloso Games
- Description: Spike II: The Great Emu War is a run-and-gun shooter! The emus are at the gates of CatTown. The cat army is overwhelmed by the number of feathered soldiers, the felines will soon become... an endangered species. Equipped with your minigun, try to survive the horde of emus who will do their best to catch you.
- Credits: Goloso Games, Code/Art. Philip Aldous, Music. Daniele Giardini, Key Art.
- Post Hero - $8
- By Scenic Route Software
- Description: Post Hero is an adventure game where you play as a mail carrier on his first day on the job. What should be a walk in the park turns out to be anything but! Who knew you'd need to outsmart a vampire, help someone change a flat tire, foil a porch pirate, save a relationship and learn magic just to drop off some packages? All of this and more awaits you in Post Hero!
- Credits: S.G. Chipman, Programming, Art, Music & Dialog. John Clarkson, Main Menu Design. Special thanks - Clara, Emre, Kate, John, Bill, Ledbetter Games, Fatnose Games, PizzaFuel & Pixel Ghost
Learn more about these games at play.date/games/catalog/ or on-device via the Catalog. Games for Playdate can also be sideloaded and purchased from sites like Itch.io. Panic is still hard at work on fulfilling all of its pre-orders for Playdate and expect to catch up to their orders this year. Playdate is available for pre-order for $199.
About Playdate
Playdate is a truly unique gaming handheld system that is a celebration of video games. It’s yellow. It fits in your pocket. It includes games from amazing creators, it has a beautiful black and white screen, and yes, it also has a crank.
Created with great attention to detail and affection by app developer and video game publisher Panic, Playdate hopes to capture the spirit of endless possibility and excitement that games have given us since the beginning. Playdate’s collection of games will delight players with their inventiveness and ingenuity. And in addition to introducing players to brand new games, Playdate also encourages people to create their own imaginative games and interactive software using a suite of easy development tools. In short, Playdate was made just for fun.
For hardware information, pictures, and more details on Playdate visit the Press Kit here: play.date/mediakit
Find Playdate on Twitter at @playdate and on their website at play.date
For special interview requests or any other requests, get in touch with pr@popagenda.co
About Panic Inc.
Founded in 1999, Panic is an ancient corporation in Portland, Oregon that relentlessly follows its heart in an effort to make nicely made things that bring everyday joy. Originally — and still — a Mac app developer, Panic has also become a highly-focused video game publisher that has helped to release into the world Firewatch, Untitled Goose Game, and the upcoming interactive food game, Nour: Play With Your Food. In the spirit of creating products that bring joy, Panic has also created its very own handheld video game system, Playdate.
Visit their website: https://panic.com/
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