A playdate game by Richard Munn

🎵 In a long ago place, in a far away time,

The villagers cast out one whose song didn't rhyme... 🎵

Turfed out of your home for your awful singing, you must pass the four trials... the Mysterious Mines, Forest, Caves, and, and, um... 

Defeat the Mysterious Monsters!  Retrieve the four Mysterious Musical Notes and collect the Mysterious Gems so that your songs might become a bit less awful to the rest of us in the village.

A 80s inspired arcade action platformer set over four worlds, with over fifty stages of singing-at-beasties-and-jumping-on-their-heads action.

🏆 Supports Playdate Achievements!

Releasing 9th December 2025 to Catalog and itch.io

Accessibility

If you find the graphics are too small, there is a Zoom option in the pause menu.  When zoomed, the map and inventory take place of the instructions when paused.

Credits

• A game by Richard Munn
• Music by Dyalla
• Contains graphics based on Kenney.nl assets
• Font based on Margarine

How to Install

To install this to your Playdate console, you'll need to sideload it:

• Log in to your Playdate Account at play.date.
• Go to your Account page.
• Go to the Sideload page.
• Drag or select the downloaded zip to upload it.

The game will be uploaded to your Playdate account and become available to any Playdate you’re logged in on. Next:

• Go to Settings on your Playdate.
• Go to Games.
• Refresh the list (this may happen automatically) and find the game you uploaded.
• That’s it! Even if you reset your Playdate, or get a new one, you’ll be able to download this game from the server.

See Sideloading Playdate games - Playdate Help for more information.