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And from the Catalog archives 💫 ❶ Blocky Balloons - Push, slide, and logic your way through a world of blocky puzzles to get those balloons! 🎈 play.date/games/block... ❷ Platform 10 is a folk game from New South Wales based on commuter train carriages! 🚂 play.date/games/platf...

A math puzzle game - make the number 10, using only the four numbers given and your trusty calculator.

Platform 10 for Playdate

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③ Based on the Sokodice, this hand-held version is an infinite score chasing game. Plan your path carefully — every roll counts. 🎲 play.date/games/sokod...

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② The spirits speak through the cards. Your job is to listen, and to make it pay. Nine Seasons, five Omens apiece and 10 equippable stones ensure no two runs ever read the same. 🃏 play.date/games/augur/

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① Roll the dice, gain a random weapon and wreak havoc as you speed along a rail in a chase to the death! Crank in different ways to kill the endless enemies coming for you! 🔫 play.date/games/rail-...

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🟨 Playdate Catalog Drop Post! 3 more great games are waiting for your Playdate. Just open Catalog on your Playdate, or visit play.date/games to grab them 💫 Enjoy!

Playdate @play.date · 24/09/2026

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The Sequel to the hit game by @scenicroutesoftware.com, Post Hero: Bedbeard’s Revenge, is now available on Catalog! 🦾 play.date/games/post-hero-2/

A red title image of Post Hero, Bedbeard's Revenge. Out now on Catalog!

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Game Devs of Color Expo @gdocexpo.com · 21/09/2026

PIGSquad & Panic Inc. are hosting the Portland watch party for Game Devs of Color Expo 2026! Speakers from around the world have gathered to share their vast knowledge across a range of topics including gripping game design, marketing deep dives, satisfying sound design, & much more.

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Playdate @play.date · 21/09/2026

📩 Post Hero: Bedbeard’s Revenge from @scenicroutesoftware.com comes to Catalog this Thursday! Set a year after the events in Post Hero, it’s a laugh-out-loud parody of artificial intelligence and the arrogance of big tech. 🦾 play.date/games/post-h...

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⑥ A radio player for Playdate: crank through stations from around the world and listen with serendipeedee! 📻 play.date/games/peede...

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⑤ Neo Trick is an addictive deck-building game where your card's can permanently affect other cards and Increase their power or add new effects to the next round! 🃏 play.date/games/neotr...

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④ Flight Assist Off Race is a top down asteroids race in ZeroG. Careful, you'll experience G-forces so intense, they might make you black out! Make it to the finish orb ASAP! 🚀 play.date/games/fligh...

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③ A Tarot Pull for the Curious Souls, the Skeptical Minds, and the Mildly ~Cranked~ Bask in dry wit, ancient wisdom, and oddly specific fortunes. 🔮 play.date/games/wee-t...

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② It's Ploop! A crank powered score chasing action puzzler where you zip around to swap, match, and survive. 🧩 play.date/games/ploop/

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① Ikebana Dones and the Great Adventure: Somewhere under the desert lies a temple full of locked rooms with flowerpots left in every single one. No combat, no reflexes, no luck. Just a room, a plan, and the growing suspicion that you pushed that crate one square too far. 🪴 play.date/games/ikeba...

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🚨Fresh Catalog Drop! Head on over to Catalog, our Playdate games store that lives inside your Playdate, or play.date/games/ to check out the latest and greatest. Crank On 🤘

StephanRewind @stephanrewind.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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New Atlantic ‘41 devlog at last. Going over the various in game reports. Hydrophone contacts, crew and boat status, weather…all in one place. stephanrewind.itch.io/atlantic-41/...

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Playdate @play.date · 14/09/2026

Imagine yourself playing Soggy Froggy, the new game from the team behind Root Bear……… This dream can come true, if you preorder Season Three ⬇️ play.date/games/seasons/three

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Playdate @play.date · 11/09/2026

Playdate + Panic will be at Portland Retro Gaming Expo this year! One of our favorite shows to attend. And yes, we've set aside some Playdate units to sell in person! 🗓️ October 9–11, 2026 📍 Oregon Convention Center, Portland OR 👋 Booth # 1001 ➡️ retrogamingexpo.com

Playdate-the handheld video game system with a tank. Available at our PRGE booth! Panic Games. Booth 1001.

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Playdate @play.date · 11/09/2026

Guess what—we will!

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Playdate @play.date · 09/09/2026

Season 3 CONFIRMED, starts October 8. Pre-order now! 🛼 play.date/s3

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Playdate @play.date · 10/09/2026

We surveyed players about Seasons 1 and 2; the overall feeling was that there were too many games, and the ones later in the seasons didn't get enough attention. We'll keep tweaking things based on feedback!

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Playdate @play.date · 09/09/2026

Season 3 CONFIRMED, starts October 8. Pre-order now! 🛼 play.date/s3

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Playdate @play.date · 09/09/2026

YouTube Premiere link: youtu.be/vmkhLH1xzSs See you in an hour and a half 🤟

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Playdate Update 10: September 9, 2026

YouTube video by Panic

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Playdate @play.date · 08/09/2026

Hello! Join us TOMORROW for our next Playdate Update to get the scoop on some of the games and details of Playdate Season Three, as well as some other fun news! 📆 Premieres Wednesday, Sept 9 at 9:00 AM PT ➡️ live.panic.com

Looping text saying Playdate Update, September 9, 9 AM PT

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Playdate @play.date · 03/09/2026

pssst. iam8bit booth #208 at PAX West will have Playdates for sale. pass it on.

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⑥ Deploy advanced technology, orbital strikes, and cyber warfare to destroy your enemy’s HQ core while defending your own in this head-to-head sci-fi card game! 🃏 play.date/games/meltd...

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⑤ A juggling simulation game where you control two hands with the crank, perform tricks with the D-pad, and keep all your juggling balls in the air while multiplying your score! 🤹 play.date/games/juggl...

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④ Lazy Paper is the tale of a tiny paper ball that dreams of slipping through walls, and lucky for it, you are the walls. Easy to pick up but hard to master! 📄 play.date/games/lazy-...

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③ Dave is back in Woah Dave! Help Dave collect pennies as you navigate an alien invasion. Throw eggs, explode skulls, and the elusive WOAH! block! 💀 play.date/games/woah-...

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② Merge grass into flowers, flowers into trees, and trees into fire in MESHCHERA, a tense, atmospheric puzzle merging game. 🌱 play.date/games/meshc...

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① Help Okina serve plates of Japanese izakaya snacks in this delicious block-placing arcade puzzle game! 🍜 play.date/games/izaka...

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🚨6 new Catalog games are here! Check them out on your Playdate, or head to play.date/games 💫 And have a look below! 🆕⤵️

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And re-featuring ✨ ❶ DYG - Labor in the field. For Playdate! ⛏️ play.date/games/dyg/ ❷ Loopsy - Create as many loops as you can before the board fills up or the timer expires. ➿ play.date/games/loopsy/

Create as many loops as you can in this timeless arcade classic.

Loopsy for Playdate

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④ Guncrank is an old-school wave shooter inspired by the Sega Mega Drive era. Your job is simple: survive intense waves of regular grunts to reach the level's boss. 🔫 play.date/games/gun-c...

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③ Can you survive the Dice Deluge™? Roll, match, and score sets of dice before time runs out! 🎲 play.date/games/dice-...

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② Geometric horrors stream in from the void hellbent on overrunning the last defended point in the sector: the Core. • Defend the Core or Play Something Else • ⚫ play.date/games/rotoc...

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① Cafe Machina is a factory building game about a group of AI chatbots and their attempts to overthrow humanity by building a variety of restaurants. 🤖 play.date/games/cafe-...

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🆕 NEW! in Playdate Catalog today ⬇️ Sit back, relax, crank-in, Sit back, relax, crank-in, and check out the latest at play.date/games 🟨

stonerl @stonerl.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

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Kirby’s Tilt ‘n‘ Tumble running on the #Playdate #retrogaming #gameboy

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We're back!! Playdate systems should be stable again when triggering network activity. Phew. That was a journey*. Thank you for your understanding!! [*Cloudflare and Nginx were conspiring do strip Content-Length headers, and Playdate really, really doesn't like not getting a Content-Length header]

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we can all aspire to such heights

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oh, it definitely is related

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(The good news is, fixing whatever is happening here will make Playdate more robust and resilient in the future! Just not the ideal circumstances to discover it…)

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Panic @panic.com · 13/08/2026

This is what it looks like when migrating your entire network exposes a surprise Playdate crasher that affects some (but not all?!) customers when checking for games, updates, etc. We're working on it right now! Hang tight, apologies, thank you!

A chart showing a sharp increase in received stack traces from Playdate systems.

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Who has two thumbs and just rebuilt their entire network design after a really annoying and significant DDoS attack*? This corporate entity! 😮‍💨👍👍 Anyway! All Panic websites and services are now BACK ONLINE. We’re hoping it sticks. Thank you for your patience during that time. (*They wanted money.)

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Playdate @play.date · 07/08/2026

Sorry about that—we'll take a look at it!

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Playdate @play.date · 06/08/2026

Presenting from the Catalog archives! 1️⃣ Simple Mind - Inspired by the classic MasterMind board game. 👾 play.date/games/simpl... 2️⃣ Be Kind To Yourself - looks like a shmup but plays kinda like a falling block puzzle game at 120 beats per minute. 🧩 play.date/games/be-ki...