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25.10.2026 - C64 game 'Awesome SlamSibs Infinite' released - free for download
'Awesome SlamSibs Infinite' is a Super Smash Bros.–style platform fighter for the Commodore 64, made by Danish developer Søren Trautner Madsen and release at the Zoo 2026 party. Up to two players knock C64 and Nintendo legends off six classic-game stages, with 15–20 moves per fighter squeezed out of a single-button joystick. It is a free, non-commercial fan tribute.

25.10.2026 - Video: Vale of the Lost Goddess for C64 - work in progress (5)
More footage of 'Vale of the Lost Goddess', a coming new game from Icon64, showing some fighting. The game is coming on great...

25.10.2026 - 'Sabre Wulf Remastered' for C64 released - free for download
Sabre Wulf is an action-adventure game released by British video game developer Ultimate Play the Game for the ZX Spectrum home computer in 1984 and there was also a port for C64. This remastering project of it was started some years ago after graphic artist JonEgg redrew all the tiles for the C64 version of the game Sabre Wulf. Now finally the finished version was relesaed. 256 screens of jungle. One way out. Find the four pieces of the amulet and show them to the guardian. Stab the small stuff. Run from the big stuff. Flowers give strange powers for a while. Some good, some not. Linger on one screen and a bushfire comes for you. The Sabre Wulf hunts the south. Your sabre won't touch it.

25.10.2026 - C64 game 'Zombies Ate My C64' released
'Zombies Ate My C64' is a top-down Halloween action game for the Commodore 64, a love letter to the SNES classic Zombies Ate My Neighbors. Run through fifteen hand-built levels, blast your way past zombies, werewolves, ghosts and worse, and reach the terrified neighbours before the monsters do. Save everyone and the exit opens. Lose them all and it's game over. You can get it as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

24.10.2026 - C64 game 'Tiltrune' - Version 1.1 released
'Tiltrune' is a puzzle game for C64, where the room is your mechanism. Turn it through 90 degrees and the explorer, crates and gems fall into a new arrangement. A wall that stopped you can become your next floor. Collect every gem, then reach the green exit. Features: 80+ main rooms across five vaults and a special final chamber,bonus challenges unlocked beyond the ending, up to 100 stored undo states and unlimited retries, par targets, stars, best room results and completion statistics, animated end-of-run score tally and a disk-saved high score. You can get the game as digital download for a reasonable price to support the developer.

24.10.2026 - 'Tiltrune' for Amiga released
'Tiltrune' brings the original C64 puzzle game to the Amiga, with reworked graphics, animated title and reward screens, and Amiga music and sound effects. Turn the room. Watch things fall. Deep inside the mountain, a forgotten treasure vault waits behind more than 80 rooms. You cannot climb, and you cannot jump. But you can tilt the whole room by 90 degrees - and everything that is not nailed down falls with it. Crates tumble, gems drop, and so do you. Collect every gem, open the glowing green exit and step through before the room turns against you. Requires 1 MB RAM: an Amiga 500 with 512 KB Chip RAM and a 512 KB RAM expansion. An Amiga 1200 with 2 MB Chip RAM is also supported. You can get the game as digital download for a reasonable price to support the developer.

24.10.2026 - C64 game 'The Brothers in Arms' released
'The Brothers in Arms' is a Cannon Fodder like clone for C64 with 25 levels. Run through a jungle and destroy enemy huts and soldiers. You can pick up grenades and rockets. You have three soldiers, once they are gone. Everything resets back to the start. Enemies wont miss! The enemy also has rocket launchers, a single hit from their explosion will take out two of your soldiers. You can get it as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

24.10.2026 - C64 game 'Jungle Escape' released - free for download
'Jungle Escape' is a memory puzzle for the C64. A gorilla has escaped and the only way out is through the jungle. Every room is full of hidden traps. You see them for a moment, then they vanish and look just like the ground. Remember where they were and lead the gorilla to the exit. Jungle Escape is a Commodore 64 demake of Larcin Lazer, with 100 rooms of increasing difficulty.

23.10.2026 - 'Deathchase' for C64 released
'Deathchase' brings the legendary ZX Spectrum game 3D Deathchase to the Commodore 64, recreating its distinctive high-speed motorcycle combat through dense forests. Originally developed by Mervyn J. Estcourt and published by Micromega in 1983, 3D Deathchase became a celebrated classic of the 8-bit era, renowned for its remarkable sense of speed, atmospheric environments and addictive gameplay. This Commodore 64 adaptation has been developed from scratch by Ted Soft (2026), featuring entirely new code, graphics and music while remaining faithful to the spirit of the original. You can get it as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

23.10.2026 - C64 game 'Hacker' - preview version released
'Hacker' is a WIP puzzle game for the Commodore 64. Runs on both PAL and NTSC machines. You have to find all the locks to complete a level. If you pick a wrong location 3 times it's game over.

23.10.2026 - C64 game 'Let's go for Vrouves' released
'Let's go for Vrouves' is a tower defense like game. The law is everywhere. Everywhere? One small village in Crete is resisting... Armed with EU Directive 8647/2026, the corporate goliaths at Frankenstein & Moreau CO. are deploying bio-drones, hazard squads, and heavy machinery to destroy "Vrouves" - the wild, "copyrighted" mountain greens - of Crete. In the village of Zoniana, you must deploy the "defenders" on top-down grids to protect the Kafenio (bottom-left) and the precious sacks of bitter greens from these invaders! You can get it as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

23.10.2026 - 'Snake Puzzle' for Plus/4 and C64 released - free for download
In 'Snake Puzzle' you guide your gravity-bound snake to the exit across 300 levels. Eat apples (and lemons!) to grow longer and cross wide gaps, or push movable stones to reach high platforms. Avoid lethal traps like fire, circular saws, and spikes. Later levels also feature portals and switches to bypass laser gates. If you get completely stuck, you can easily skip or revisit levels by pressing N or P (hold Shift to skip 10). The C64 version can be downloaded here.

23.10.2026 - C64 game 'Schattenfels' released
'Schattenfels - Chapter 1: Beyond the Gate' is a point-and-click adventure for the C64, in English and German. It is the first chapter of a series. Help Professor Fledermann and his young assistant Emil is to find the coffin of Count Ottokar before midnight. The game was built with FABULA C64, the new adventure workshop for the C64. It needs an EasyFlash compatible extension. You can get it as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

22.10.2026 - VIC-20 game 'Vic Pyjamarama' released - free for download
Pyjamarama is an action-adventure video game for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and the C64. It features Wally Week as the central character and is the second of a series of games featuring Wally and/or members of his family. It was published by Mikro-Gen in 1984. Now there is a non-commercial homebrew fan port for VIC-20 (+35K).

21.10.2026 - 'Sabre Wulf' - remastered version for C64 released
This is a port/remaster of Sabre Wulf, Ultimate’s 1984 classic, reimagined for the C64. The objective for developer Sveinacious-G was to reproduce the original ZX Spectrum game as faithfully as possible while improving upon it where appropriate. All the original features, creatures, and gameplay mechanics are preserved, right down to the individual spawn rates of each monster and item. Sabre Wulf also received an official C64 release by Firebird in 1985. This new version draws on that release for its music and incorporates some of its character optimizations, adapted as necessary to accommodate a predominantly sprite-based implementation. You can get the 'Sabre Wulf Remaster' as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.