Spooky Games 2024
Introduction
How to Use
This list is comprised of five main sections:
- Catalog: Games that are available on Catalog and may also be available on Itch.io.
- Itch.io: Games that are not available on Catalog and can only be Sideloaded.
- Movies: A collection of Movies formatted for Playdate and playable using Playorama.
- Upcomming: Games that are in active developement.
- Season One: Games that are available through Season One.
Each section includes the game name with link to the wiki article, Description which gives a brief overview of the game, Themes which details what tags may be appropriate for each game and Links which will direct you to the game page.
Catalog
First we have a list of games that are available to buy on the Catalog.
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Game | Description | Themes | Links | ||
A Ghost in the Gallery | A visual novel that tells a story alongside the game ART-O-Ween: Night at the Gallery | Ghosts, Visual Novel | Catalog, Itch | ||
Along Came a Spider | Explore the world as a spider! Go on an adventure with a total of 5 endings! | Spider, Adventure, Exploration | Catalog, Itch | ||
Baito Fight!!: Part-time Devil Hunter | Use your sick baseball skills to exterminate monsters from your neighbors' apartments as a part-time devil hunter!! | Monsters, Action | Catalog, Itch | ||
Castle Tintagel | A retro action platformer where you go on an epic quest to fight monsters to reclaim Castle Tintagel | Castlevania, Monsters, Gothic, Action | Catalog, Itch | ||
Chew Chew Mimic | You're a mimic and your goal is to eat the adventurers. With 100 levels and plenty of problem solving to do. | Monsters, Dungeon, Skeletons | Catalog | ||
Chopter Copter | A score chaser game where you use your copter to chopter through monsters. | Monsters, Castle, Arcade, Action | Catalog, Itch | ||
Echoes of the Emergent | Embark on a personal journey through a shattered post-apocalyptic world, where your pursuit for answers unveils the remnants of both a forgotten past and uncertain prospects for the future. | Apocalypse, Visual Novel, Adventure | Catalog, Itch | ||
Frizzle | Unravel the dark secret within Frizzle, a small but captivating virtual pet game for the Panic Playdate. While the pixelated world promises warmth and companionship, an unsettling undercurrent simmers beneath the surface. As you nurture your digital friend, a struggle for dominance unfolds, forcing you to question everything you thought you knew. | Horror, Virtual Pet, Apps, Puzzle | Catalog, Itch | ||
Halfway to Dawn | This hybrid shooter and narrative game follows the protagonist's struggle to survive a night in a dystopian world, where only a few humans remain after a mysterious monster invasion. | Zombies, Survival, Action, Adventure | Catalog, Itch | ||
Hana: Spacetime Fantasy | Explore a post-apocalyptic Earth in a glorious 1-bit action-adventure game | Sci-fi, Mystery, exploration, Adventure, Action | Catalog, Itch | ||
Knoblins | Hatch musical creatures to preform songs for an adoring audience. Each Knoblin has a different sound that you can tweek in real time while performing. | Monsters, Virtual Pet, Rhythm, Apps | Catalog, Itch | ||
Labyrinth | A dungeon crawler featuring monsters to fight and an ever changing labyrinth of levels. Go for a high score in this infinitely replayable game. | Monsters, Dungeon Crawler, RPG, Action | Catalog, | ||
Legend of Etad | Fight monsters and demons in this handcrafted dungeon crawler. | Monsters, Demons, Dungeon Crawler, Adventure, Puzzle | Catalog, Itch | ||
Life's 2 Short: Unhooked | Explore a tropical island as the series’ spectral problem solver in this little point-and-click-lite adventure for the Playdate as you meet quirky characters, solve puzzles, play mini-games and ultimately leave things in a better place than you found them! | Ghosts, Pirates, Adventure, Puzzle | Catalog, Itch | ||
Life's Too Short: On Reflection | The residents of a medieval tower are being taunted by what lies on the other side of a mysterious mirror. Reflection can come in many forms and the voice on the other side of the mirror is not always a friend. Maybe the mirror and the residents need your help? | Ghosts, Adventure, Puzzle | Catalog, Itch | ||
Monster Elevator | Make endless burgers for monsters but don't forget their order or you'll be sent back to floor one. | Monsters, Ghosts, Gore, Horror, Pulp Mill | Catalog, Itch | ||
Penrose | Face eldritch giants, encounter sentient malls, explore hidden catacombs, and piece together who you were, are, and want to be. | Monsters, Adventure, Puzzle, Pulp | Catalog, Itch | ||
Pullfrog | Take control of a slippery lil' frog and use your tongue to pull around the falling blocks. Clear lines, get power-ups and discover the secrets this devilish puzzle platformer has for you! | Occult, Lovecraftian, Puzzle, Platformer, Action | Catalog | ||
Nightingale | An atmospheric horror game, centered around themes of hospitalization, illness, and what it means to feel safe in your own body. | Horror, Monsters, Hospital, Adventure, Puzzle | Catalog, Itch | ||
SCP-D38813 | Unlock SCP readings by decyphering articles with creepy ambient music and the ability to add more levels through a level editor. | Text, Creepy, Story, Puzzle | Catalog, Itch | ||
Stars of the Screen | A collection of screensavers for the playdates with mysteries to uncover | Surreal, Puzzle, Apps | Catalog, Itch | ||
Touch Egg | Touch the egg as many times as you can before time runs out! because, why shouldn't you? | Arcade, Score Attack, Blood, Action, Pulp | Catalog, Itch | ||
Under The Tree | A dungeon crawler featuring tons of spooky enemies to defeat. Sell items to purchase better gear to progress even further into the dungeons | Monsters, Dungeon Crawler, RPG, Adventure | Catalog |
Spoooooky Collection
These games have already been recognized as apart of the Spooooky Collection[1] on Catalog and are included separately to distinguish them from New titles and undiscovered games on the Catalog.
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Game | Description | Themes | Links | ||
Pulpergeist | Detective game with spooky themes. | Detective, Ghosts, Paranormal, Adventure, Puzzle | Catalog, Itch | ||
The Botanist | Follow the Botanist as they travel through space, searching planets for the rare plants needed to solve the food shortage back home. | Visual Novel, Sci-fi, Adventure | Catalog, Itch | ||
To Dust | In this volume the Botanist searches the spirit world for answers to the disappearance of a fellow scientist. | Visual Novel, Sci-fi, Adventure | Catalog, Itch | ||
Possessions | A coding puzzle game all about possessing people. | Puzzle, Ghosts, Coding, Strategy | Catalog, Itch | ||
Life's Too Short | Explore the mansion, meet various spooky characters and solve simple puzzles to help mend the rift in two vampire's relationship | Ghosts, Haunted mansion, Vampires, Adventure, Puzzle | Catalog, Itch | ||
Life's too Short: A Christmas Spirit | Explore the mansion, meet various spooky characters and solve simple puzzles in order to ensure baby Vlad's first Christmas isn't ruined. | Ghosts, Haunted mansion, Vampires, Adventure, Puzzle | Catalog, Itch | ||
Necrocrisis | A Zombie shoot em up game. Survive as long as possible in a graveyard full of Zombies! | Zombies, Shooter, Graveyard, Action | Catalog, Itch | ||
Shadow Gadget | A Collectathon all about collecting Yokai and ghosts! | Ghosts, Collectathon, Action, Apps | Catalog, Itch | ||
Shining Gadget | A Collectathon all about collecting Yokai and ghosts! | Ghosts, Collectathon, Action, Apps | Catalog, Itch | ||
The Keyper | Explore a mysterious building that your uncle used to manage. Travel through corridoors that make little to no sense and uncover the mysteries of the building | Mystery, Exploration, Adventure, Puzzle | Catalog, Itch | ||
Down the Oubliette | A dungeon crawler for people who like tower defense games. Take on the ghost infestation below an abandoned country house. | Ghosts, Tower Defense, Dungeon Crawler, Strategy | Catalog, Itch |
Itch.io
Next up are games that can only be found on Itch.io right now and will need to be Sideloaded Onto the device.
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Game | Description | Themes | Links | ||
11th | TW: discussion of suicide, gore, violence, heavily anti-christian sentiment, and sexual abuse | Story Heavy, Dark Fantasy, LGBTQ+, Horror, Adventure | Itch | ||
Alchimia | Create potions in this potion shop management game | Potions, Crafting, puzzle, management | Itch | ||
Along Came a Spider - Valley of The Hollow | A sequel to the adventure game, Along Came a Spider! | Spider, Adventure, Action | Itch | ||
ART-O-Ween: Night at the Gallery | Explore the Gallery in this Haunted version of the ART series. Interact with a spooky cast of characters and collect candy. | Ghosts, Spooky, Halloween, Adventure, Exploration | Itch | ||
Binary Dungeon | Embark on an adventure through a series of dungeons, filled with dangers and secrets. | Puzzle, Dungeon Crawler, Monsters, Roguelike | Itch | ||
Braaains! | A trivia game featuring a Zombie theme with over 1,000 questions from topics such as literature, music, history food and more. | Trivia, Zombies | Itch | ||
Dog Knowse Chapter 1: The Dame | CW! Anthropomorphic Animal violence. When the AGItha, took over the global police force back in the 2080s, they forced society into a senseblinded eutophia. Now no one can see anything.. hear anything.. SMELL anything without their dagblasted holepl4gs and slughats. | Mystery, Noir, Dogs, Story | Itch | ||
Fearless Four | Escape without being eaten by the monster in this Playdate adaptation of the boardgame Fearsome Floors | Monster, Puzzle, Board Game | Itch | ||
Horizontal | A tiny horror(ish) experience that has you explore and environment with the Playdate. Unfortunately isn't stable and may be prone to crashes. | Horror, Surreal | Itch | ||
Horrified Hector! | A puzzle/exploration game for the Playdate, inspired by spooky kids cartoons and brain-scratching ice maze puzzles. | Spooky, Adventure, Puzzle | Itch | ||
I Was Dead, But... | You died. All you wanted from the afterlife was peace and rest… But a bunch of nosy ghost-hunters just won't leave you alone. | Ghosts, Paranormal, Ghost-hunting, Story, Short | Itch | ||
I'm Scared of My Girlfriend | TW: abusive relationship, rape. A visual novel about an abusive relationship. | Trigger Warning, Visual Novel, Psychological Horror, Horror | Itch | ||
Jack and His Cat | When the devil steals his cat, Jack doesn't hesitate to travel through hell and use the power of rhythm to defeat all the demons on his way! Don't worry kitty, Jack is coming! | Monsters, Rhythm, Demons | Itch | ||
Jon Story | Jon has been abducted. They want to kill him using a trap but Jon has to survive in a dungeon... | Killer, Thriller, Pulp, Dungeon Crawler | Itch | ||
Letter to a Landlord | TW: Intense Strobing, Self-harm, Suicide, Language, Mature Themes. A short experience with some good art but also dark themes. | Trigger Warning, Horror, Short, Gore, Exploration | Itch | ||
Lights Out | It's getting pretty late and you're getting tired. Because of how dark it is outside it's a little hard to see inside your house, but that won't stop you from making it to your bed. | Spooky, Darkness, Platformer | Itch | ||
Little House | An upcoming horror puzzle adventure game. Explore, solve fiendish puzzles and encounter strange beings as you search for your house...inside your house! | Spooky, Mystery, Pulp, Adventure, Puzzle | Itch | ||
Loopwood | Play as a cute plague doctor on a quest to earn enough coins to reach his friend before the night ends. | Spooky, Halloween, Puzzle | Itch | ||
Made to Measure | A short horror experience with mini games to try and complete before your demise | Horror, Monsters, Short | Itch | ||
Mini Monsters | Take care of your Mini Monster by feeding and playing games with it. | Monsters, Virtual Pet, Idle | Itch | ||
Occult Club: The Day I Met The Witch | A linear visual novel with a great art style and more stories to come. | Occult, Spooky, Visual Novel, Story, Short, Magic | Itch | ||
Paging Dr Floppy | Do your best to keep all of the organs from hitting the floor! | Gore, Hospital, Game and Watch, arcade, Score Attack | Itch | ||
Plight of the Wizard | Survive and kill as many monsters as possible before they inevitably kill you. | Monsters, Skeletons, Zombies, Action, Vampire Survivors, Survival-Horror, Score Attack, Magic | Itch | ||
RELOAD 2 REMEMBER | You wake up in white darkness of a fog around you. You don’t know where nor who you are, but the fact that you are holding a sawed-off shotgun wakes up some memories. Not good ones. | Horror, Action, Violence, Guns, Dark, Mystery | Itch | ||
Runaround Reaper | Avoid the reaper for 30 seconds! | Reaper, Arcade, Pulp | Itch | ||
Scythe Shepard | Play as Death in this high score beat em up. Avoid getting hit by angry humans while trying to capture as many souls as possible. | Ghosts, Reaper, Beat Up, Short, Score Attack | Itch | ||
Ship Wreck Halloween Edition | Little Game&Watch styled game for Playdate. Save the poor souls from transforming into vampires or fish food. | Halloween, Game and Watch, Spooky, Arcade, Pulp | Itch | ||
Solaris Arcana: The Eye of the Soothsayer | Go through the training grounds, defeat the guardians, and meet some of the celebrities from Soothsayer. What is it that Tarquin wants? Failure is not an option. | Occult, Spooky, Pulp, Action, Adventure, Monsters | Itch | ||
Soothsayer: The Oraclepus Knows All | An adventure/simulation game with a deep lore. This game is between 1 to 2+ hours long. Are you ready to jump into this rabbit hole into the Lasagnaverse? | Occult, Spooky, Pulp, Monsters, Adventure, Simulation | Itch | ||
Strongman | STRONGMAN tells the story of a player haunted by his battles with a final boss he can't seem to beat. | Visual Novel, Parody, Horror, Short | Itch | ||
Subby V Squid | Find the squid coming towards you with The Crank™ and press A to scare them away. | Spooky, Fear of the Ocean, Arcade, Score Attack, Darkness | Itch | ||
Survive the Night | Alone in the dark with only a flashlight, can you survive for 60 seconds? | Horror, Survival, Monster | Itch | ||
Swingo | Swing the sword to slash the ghosties! | Ghosts, Action, Arcade | Itch | ||
Xeno Escape | A terror-suspense-puzzle inspired by the Alien universe. Currently in Developement | Horror, Aliens, Puzzle, Survival Horror | Itch | ||
Zombie Sokoban | 60 levels of classic sokoban puzzles with a zombie doing all the pushing. | Sokoban, Puzzle, Zombie | Itch |
Movies
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Game | Description | Themes | Links | ||
Ouroboros | Ouroboros is a love letter to the hitman genre, a question to morality and a dedicated piece to the late "Darius Brunson". In this short film, the story of one man who's decision to leave his life as a hitman, could ultimately be his last. | Violence, Hitman | Itch | ||
Ribcage | When 4 friends go camping in the woods, they find that their leisure trip of relaxation will become a complete nightmare as each of them are picked off one by one by a mysterious killer masked as a cannibilistic swine! | Horror, Violence, Thriller | Itch | ||
The Smiling Man | "The Smiling Man" dives deep into the film noir genre with the curious case of Nick Chambers as he tries to solve the mystery of "THE SMILING MAN". | Mystery, Detective | Itch | ||
What Lies Beyond | What Lies Beyond is an original anthology series where Hallmark meets Twilight Zone! With a total of 4 stories to watch and explore | Aliens, Ghosts, Sci-fi | Itch |
Upcoming Games
These are games that are not yet out and in active development.
Catalog | |||||
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Game | Description | Themes | Links | ||
Dig-Pit Runner | Run from monsters. | Monsters, Horror, Survival, Action, Platformer | |||
Hope Lost | Hope Lost features 6 different apocalypses to play through, each with their own objective and unique spin to the game’s common mechanics. | Aliens, Zombies, Apocalypse | Itch | ||
OUTSIDE PARTIES | OUTSIDE PARTIES is a “hidden picture”/“hidden object”-style horror scavenger hunt | Scavenger Hunt, Horror | Dev Page | ||
Shadowgate PD | A remake of the original Shadowgate game but made for the Playdate! | Adventure, Remake, Pulp | Itch | ||
Spacey-Clopedia | Catalog space creatures that you find on your journey | Aliens, Space | Itch | ||
Spilled Mushrooms | Spill mushrooms! | ||||
Suddenly Bird | Second level of the game will include a walk down a spooky street! | Spooky, Halloween, Minigames, Platformer | Itch | ||
Wi-Fi Dungeon: Organism Online | Explore and fight monsters. | Dungeon Crawler, Sureal, Shooter, Action, Adventure, Monsters | Twitter, Youtube |
Season 1
These are games included in Season One that match the Spooky feel of this list. This list is collapsed to prevent potential spoilers.
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Game | Description | Themes | Links | ||
Demon Quest '85 | You play an ordinary, everyday kid with ordinary, everyday problems. You also have a magical book for summoning demons from the lowest circles of Hell so that they can help you be more popular at school. | Demons, Monsters, RPG | Catalog | ||
Sasquatchers | A turn-based tactical cryptozoology game. | Monsters, RPG, Strategy | Catalog | ||
Saturday Edition | Saturday Edition tells the story of John Kornfield, a security technician who made headlines in 1976 with his account of alien abduction, life on another world, and eventual return to earth. Ten years later, Kornfield once again finds himself the subject of public interest when a string of disappearances coincide with sightings of mysterious lights in the night sky. | Detective, Mystery, Adventure, Puzzle | Catalog | ||
Spellcorked | Fulfill potion orders for people you never meet, and try to get the best reviews you can! | Witch, Potions, RPG, Management | Catalog |