ON SALE
There are over 200 games ON SALE in the ongoing Catalog Anniversary Sale. We'll be featuring different titles on the front page every day; you can also see them ALL here:
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How it started: 🔲
How it's going: 🌈
The Catalog Anniversary Sale begins....NOW 💫
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TOMORROW!
10 AM PT
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Headed to GDC next week?!
🛍️ @iam8bit.com will be selling Playdate systems (tariff free!!) in their shop — get one!
📅 March 9th - 13th
🌉 Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
broken clocks cranko panic playdate comicon dublin
Everything is ready!
Try my new game Broken Clocks for the @panic.com @play.date at the Dublin Comicon, March 07-08, Indie Games area!
You can also get #cranko, the amazing #playdate fan magazine made by @spaceindie.bsky.social
And even more goodies!? 🕰️🧶🐑✒
See you there!
#gamedev #indiedev
The 2025 Playdate Community Awards will be on March 14th at 11AM Pacific Time/2PM Eastern Time
Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@PlaydateSquad
Award nominees thread starts here: bsky.app/profile/dani...
Discord: Discord: discord.gg/zFKagQ2
Wiki: playdate-wiki.com/wiki/The_202...
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While it took a village to make it weird 😜 I’m so grateful to get the opportunity to speak about the Telefantasy aspects of @blippo.plus + the backstory of my studio & collaborators youtu.be/zmvlXIzO9K8?...
Games are: Tiny Turnip by Luke Sanderson, Cranky Cove by Jon Simantov, Overseer by Stoff, Blippo+ by YACHT, Telefantasy Studios, & Dustin Mierau
Day 20: Nominees for 2025 Playdate Game of the Year!
@lukesanderson.bsky.social @jonsimantov.bsky.social @stoff.bsky.social @com.y-a-c-h-t.com @telefantasytv.bsky.social @mierau.me @blippo.plus #Playdate
Games are: - Coda by nitebloom games - lolife by Orange Thief Ltd; - SOLAR DESCENT by Quang Hoang - Ware-wolf Campfire Stories by Ledbetter, banana, Grackalope Games/BT, Eva Belmont, Serrotonin/Austin Serr, Zach Hazard Vaupen // Emo Sludge Games, intellikat, orkn, samplay, Pixel Ghost, Swansonge, Afifyoram, DarkNStormyGames, Tijn & Jazzie, James Gameboy, Buizy, Pixel Potemkin, & qhoang
Day 19: Nominees for Pulp Game of the Year!
@orangethief.bsky.social @ldbrart.bsky.social @qhoang.bsky.social #Playdate
A lovely chat with the director of Blippo+, JJ Stratford—learn how her creative process made the game(??) possible! 💙
Catalog Report 2026. Our Playdate game store by the numbers. 423 games available; 409,003 game purchases; top regions for game purchases: USA, CA, UK, DE, FR, AU. $1,399,393.69 paid out to Catalog developers. Average game price: $5.94. Average sale discount: 39%. Data as of 2/24/2026. Thank you for playing.
🧮 With our Catalog Anniversary Sale coming up on March 5, we thought we'd update you on some nice Catalog numbers. Many thanks to all our developers and players!
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Our 3rd Catalog Anniversary Sale is right around the corner 👀🎂
200+ games will be on sale starting at 10 AM PST on March 5th ⚡
And now, a Catalog throwback or two...‼️
No Caddie Included - Crank-swing your way thru some fantastic golf-courses.
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First in...Line?
"It's opening night, and our lead star dropped out! Can you memorize these lines REALLY quickly?"
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⑤ LOVE and HATE is a top-down action game that tests your reflexes, spatial awareness, and combat skills in order to vanquish the evil forces that await.
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④ Set out to uncover the reason behind the recent monster appearances in: The Fall of Magic Castle, the sequel to Magic Castle! A new adventure awaits with more quests, more oddball characters, and a more involving narrative tying everything together.
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③ In Pitch Cranker, you play the melody of a chosen song using the crank and buttons. Manage your power, keep the rhythm, and aim for a high score!
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② Extract is a cozy idle game about mining asteroids for resources to make upgrades to your ship. Just mine, upgrade, and watch your drones go to work!
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① Collect all the fruit as fast as possible and see what secrets unlock in Piña Rollada, a top-down puzzle platformer!
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🔥 Crank up the heat then crank on over to Catalog...5 new games are out now🔥
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Tech demo for #playdate P⭕WER ⭕FF is out!
Get your crank ready for #quake like gameplay on the yellow device!
Grab for free at:
freds72.itch.io/power-off
Sometimes, you need both half-size *and* full-size fonts in Pulp for @play.date, which restricts you to one or the other. In this case, I want to squeeze some descriptions for collectible "relics" into a small text box in the in-game menu of Lightbearer.
Here's how you can achieve this in Pulp:
Share the love of gaming and enjoy some Pass 'N' Play Playdate games with your loved ones!
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And 2 Catalog blasts from our past....‼️
① Greed is a dice game of strategy, fate, luck, and a willingness to take risks.
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② In Pocket Math, take 4 numbers + 4 functions and use them all to create equations resulting in 1 and 20.
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⑤ It's time to invade earth and abduct as many humans as you can! However, they refuse to leave the buildings! Destroy structures, suck up humans, and defend yourself against the human resistance in UFO Mayhem!
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④ Sit behind the wheel of a racing car and navigate a winding road in a fight against the clock in Spline Rider. Beware, as the road can get narrow, and riding off from it will cost you some time.
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③ Help Chip and Chap protect the CPU from the Bad Bytes, a high-speed, vertical-scrolling puzzle game where quick thinking and spatial logic are key.
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② This ain't your grandma's monster fight! Capture and train mysterious Kreaturs in this monster-taming RPG where every hour matters.
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① Labsylle is a cool word puzzle game, all about the "building blocks" of the English language. Who knows? You might even learn a new word or three!
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Hello Playdate enjoyers 👋 A fresh crop of Catalog games have dropped.
So! Sit back, relax, dig in, and rejoice in what these amazing indie developers have .....developed 😜
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