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04.10.2026 - C64 game 'Warlock - Der Ketzer' released
Die Heilige Gottheit has opened a portal in your realm, and his monsters are pouring in. It is up to you, der Ketzer, to put a stop to his plans. Imagine a first-person RPG shooter, but top-down...and you get Warlock: Der Ketzer. Note, this is not a rogue-like game. The maps are handcrafted (not procedurally-generated), and there is no "permadeath". It is like playing Heretic but from above, with RPG elements thrown in. Features 25 had-crafted levels, with secret areas, 5 weapons, 8 enemy types, player progression with a rich upgrades, perks and curses system, event-triggered spawning enemies and 5 music tracks and sound effects. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

03.10.2026 - C64 game 'Labyrinth of Ur' released - free for download
'Labyrinth of Ur' is a first-person 3D dungeon crawler for the C64, inspired by Eye of the Beholder, The Bard's Tale and Dungeon Master. One warrior, Lance, goes down seven procedurally generated floors, and Pazuzu waits at the bottom.Features seven floors, sword combat, real-time pressure, keys, locked doors and healing bottles, gold and a rank, final boss, full-screen map (press M) and an automap with fog of war, SID sound with 18 sound effects and a dark-ambient tune on all three voices.

03.10.2026 - C64 game 'Fruit RSI' released
'Fruit RSI' is a drop-style puzzle game with match-2 fruit clearing. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

03.10.2026 - Amiga game 'Celtic Survivors' released
'Celtic Survivors: Blood VS Rome' is an action game for the Amiga 1200 (AGA - with a 68030 at 25 MHz or faster) in the spirit of Vampire Survivors. It has 256 colours, a hand-painted isometric village and hundreds of Romans on screen. Story: Gaul, 50 BC. The legions of Rome march on a small Celtic village. Only a handful of heroes stand in their way. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

03.10.2026 - C64 game 'Doom64' released - free for download
'Doom64' is a demake of the classic FPS to the C64 and the middle game of the id trilogy. It runs on stock machine, though the engine benefits of higher CPU speeds that are possible on e.g. the C64U. The Maps are hand edited on a grid, adjusting light levels and heights using an instant preview window. Weapons are all sprite based, taking the shareware sprites and scaling, tweaking, and palettizing them. Sounds are taken from the original PC speaker effects and decimating them. You can support the developer by donating on his Tip Jary page.

03.10.2026 - C64 game 'Le Chateau' released - free for download
'Le Chateau' is a classic platformer, wchich is based on 'The Castle' a puzzle-platform game developed by ASCII Corporation and converted by Sega for the SG-1000 in 1986. The player controls a young prince who enters a vast castle to rescue an imprisoned princess.

02.10.2026 - Amiga game 'Amiga X-Sector' released
'X-Sector' captures the nostalgic look and feel of an Amiga disk-copying utility, right down to the authentic sound effects, but with all the fun of an endlessly replayable puzzle game. Read sectors, follow the clues, mark the corrupt ones, and recover every safe sector without hitting a bad one. Four disks offer increasing difficulty and familiar, easy-to-learn gameplay. Each new disk has a fresh pattern of corruption, so there's always another puzzle to solve. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

02.10.2026 - Amiga game 'AirTiger Strike' released
'AirTiger Strike' an isometric helicopter action game for the Amiga 1200, in the spirit of Desert Strike.You fly an AH-64 Apache with a tiger's head painted on its nose. Your home base is the helideck of a US destroyer in the Gulf. From there you fly deep into occupied territory to hunt SCUD launchers, rescue downed pilots, escort convoys and free prisoners of war. You can get the game as digital download for a fair price to support the developer.

02.10.2026 - Amiga game 'Gun.Smoke' released
This is a port of Gun.Smoke the Arcade Western shooter by Capcom in 1985 to the Commodore Amiga AGA Chipset. Features: an accurate near 1-1 version from the arcade - full Speed 50/60fps gameplay even on a stock A1200 - dedicated CD32 iso image - Fast RAM detection and utilization - NTSC version auto detection - High Score Saving - contains the difficulty settings of the Arcade version - includes a new difficulty for an easier challenge - SFX from the Arcade game - 3 channel tracker music converted from the arcade - options menu to set difficulty, starting round, control type, auto fire and invincibility. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

02.10.2026 - C64 Weekly #89 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Weekly updates from the Commodore 64 Scene Including new music, demos and games. Links to all shown content in the video description.

01.10.2026 - C64 game 'Das Bier für den Zwergenkönig' released - free for download
'Das Bier für den Zwergenkönig' (The Beer for the Dwarf King) is a text/graphic adventure in German and English language. It plays in the world of the Gold Quest Games, which is a multi-part fantasy C64 game series. Find the recipe clues, ingredients and tools, put the brewery to work and deliver the finished royal cask to Sledgie. The game contains 25 locations and combines a text parser with illustrated rooms, conversations, small quests and a score system. The game language can be switched on the fly.

01.10.2026 - Amig game 'Dizzy Gems' released
Dizzy Gems is a match 3 or more columns style game created for the Commodore Amiga using AMOS Professional 2 & Deluxe Paint 4 for the graphics. Drop columns of three gems into the playfield, rotate and position them, and create matches horizontally, vertically & diagonally. Clear gems, trigger chain reactions and build your score as the game gradually gets faster. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

01.10.2026 - Amiga game 'Defender' - Beta version released
It's another Defender game for Amiga. Shoot aliens, rescue humans. You can get the game in its current state as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

01.10.2026 - New Amiga Games from September 2026 - video by 'Retro Gaming Dino'
Presentation of new games for the Commodore 64 released in September 2026, with gameplay footage, lots of information about the games and download links in the video description.

01.10.2026 - C64 game 'Fruity Frank' released - free for download
'Fruity Frank' is an unofficial fan conversion of an 1984 Amstrad CPC video game by Steven Wallis for the C64. The gameplay is similar to Mr. Do!, though the story involves Frank protecting a garden from invading monsters. You dig tunnels through the garden, eat the fruit, avoid the monsters and knock them out with your bouncing ball or a falling apple.