Remember when gaming felt like this?

Real buttons. Real games. Really yours.

A Playtiles controller stuck to a phone screen, in ink and crayola

Glass is not a control surface. It's a compromise.

We brought back real buttons. No batteries, no cables · sticks right to the phone you already carry.

Season 2 game grid showing two revealed covers and two still hidden

A smaller library, on purpose.

24 hand-picked indie games, released one drop at a time over 12 weeks. We'd rather you finish one than skip ten.

Bar showing the seasonal revenue pool split 60 percent to developers, 40 percent to the player vote pool

You don't buy a game. You buy a season.

60% is a fixed split to developers. The other 40% is the player vote pool. Players rank their top games at season close.

Cover art for Kero Kero Cowboy, Feed It Souls and Depths of Europa

The 3 games you couldn't put down.

At the end of every season, players vote. Kero Kero Cowboy, Feed It Souls and Depths of Europa topped the Season 1 chart. Licensed homebrew, originally Game Boy, now on your phone.

A phone running a Game Boy style game with a Playtiles controller attached

You own it. That used to be normal.

No ads, no subs, no microtransactions. Buy once, play forever.

A phone with a Playtiles controller and the average runtime of 18 minutes

Short games. On purpose.

An evening, not an era. Every Playtiles game is beatable in a single sitting. Average runtime 18 minutes.

Playtiles rally poster in lagoon reading real buttons, real games, really yours

Billions of phones. Every one is a homebrew console now.

The games the industry forgot, in the hands of the audience the scene never reached.

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