Stretch out your cranking fingers, charge your reading lamp and prepare for Playdate Season 3, which goes live on October 8. The latest season will run for four weeks, dropping two games per week, for a total of eight games. Playdate Season 3 costs $39 and pre-orders are live now.
Each Playdate season includes a collection of games made specifically for the handheld, curated by Panic and released weekly in a blind-box kind of fashion. Panic offered a peek at the Season 3 titles during its Playdate Update Showcase on Wednesday, revealing all eight games: Soggy Froggy by Root Bear crew team root, Gloom Gate by satOlite creator LuBu, Houm by fissh studio BuuuuBunnyGames, Sound Mind by Sasquatchers dev Chuck Jordan, HELLEVATOR by ICY DUNGEON‘s DRD, Bonkhope by Long Puppy maker indiana-jonas, Chance’s Lucky Escape 2 by Goloso Games and Julia Minamata, and Cross Words by Ratcheteer developer Shaun Inman.
The showcase offered a closer look at Soggy Froggy, Gloom Gate and Houm, three very different experiences. Soggy Froggy is a cartoonish, crank-heavy title about stirring a pot to keep its liquid at the proper temperature for a bathing amphibian; Gloom Gate is an old-school dungeon-crawling RPG with soulslike elements and luscious animations; and Houm is an unsettling point-and-click adventure set in a mysterious mansion littered with valuables and existential trauma.
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