{"id":83703,"date":"2026-09-10T07:37:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=83703"},"modified":"2026-09-10T07:37:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:37:01","slug":"playdate-season-3-kicks-off-on-october-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=83703","title":{"rendered":"Playdate Season 3 Kicks Off On October 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/playdate-season-3-kicks-off-on-october-8\/l-intro-1788990891.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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:\u00a0<em>Soggy Froggy<\/em> by <em>Root Bear<\/em> crew team root, <em>Gloom Gate<\/em> by <em>satOlite<\/em> creator LuBu, <em>Houm<\/em> by <em>fissh<\/em> studio BuuuuBunnyGames, <em>Sound Mind<\/em> by <em>Sasquatchers<\/em> dev\u00a0Chuck Jordan,\u00a0<em>HELLEVATOR<\/em> by <em>ICY DUNGEON<\/em>&#8216;s DRD,\u00a0<em>Bonkhope<\/em> by <em>Long Puppy<\/em> maker\u00a0indiana-jonas,\u00a0<em>Chance&#8217;s Lucky Escape 2<\/em> by Goloso Games and Julia Minamata, and <em>Cross Words<\/em> by <em>Ratcheteer<\/em> developer Shaun Inman.<\/p>\n<p>The showcase offered a closer look at\u00a0<em>Soggy Froggy<\/em>, <em>Gloom Gate<\/em> and <em>Houm<\/em>, three very different experiences. <em>Soggy Froggy<\/em> is a cartoonish, crank-heavy title about stirring a pot to keep its liquid at the proper temperature for a bathing amphibian; <em>Gloom Gate<\/em> is an old-school dungeon-crawling RPG with soulslike elements and luscious animations; and\u00a0<em>Houm<\/em> is an unsettling point-and-click adventure set in a mysterious mansion littered with valuables and existential trauma.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Playdate Update 10: September 9, 2026\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vmkhLH1xzSs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Playdate Season 1 is built into every device and it includes 24 games,\u00a0while Season 2 costs $39 and features 12 games, plus the delightfully campy\u00a0<em>Blippo+<\/em> cable TV simulator.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Season 3, you&#8217;ll note, has fewer titles than Season 2 but costs the same amount.\u00a0We don&#8217;t say it often, but this is inflation that we can get behind: Playdate games are super affordable overall (priced around $10 on the high end),\u00a0they&#8217;re uniquely innovative by nature, and they&#8217;re only getting more detailed. Developers are constantly testing the limits of the Playdate and discovering new use cases for the black-and-white cranking machine, as showcased by its breadth of supported\u00a0genres,\u00a0and this recent and very rad 3D demo\u00a0by Cristina Ramos. Besides, $5 per game is a great deal no matter how you slice it. Or crank it.<\/p>\n<p>And on top of that, the Playdate Catalog Fall Sale will run from November 5-19, offering discounts on more than 200 games.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2254393\/playdate-season-3-kicks-off-on-october-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stretch out your cranking fingers, charge your reading lamp and prepare for Playdate Season 3, which goes live on October 8. 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