Engadget (Cheyenne MacDonald, 31 May 2025). Panic compares Blippo+ to The Twilight Zone, but she finds it "more like an old episode of The Twilight Zone if it were made by Tim & Eric… I think I am obsessed with it?"
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/playdate-season-2-review-fulcrum-defender-dig-dig-dino-and-blippo-140036697.htmlGames / Season Two / Blippo+
OverviewSeason Two
Blippo+
AdventureCrank: yes (precision)$10
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What it is
Blippo+ isn't really a game. Its store page calls it "an 11-week, live-action, over-the-top television experience". The premise is that the first Playdates picked up a strange broadcast from Planet Blip, and Panic has "decoded" it. You turn the device into a TV and channel-surf soaps, sitcoms, news, weather and talk shows, all filmed live-action and squeezed into 1-bit video. There's also Femtofax, a message board full of affirmations, neighbourhood drama and amateur astronomers. It uses every button, the crank and the accelerometer, but "requires no skill or precision". Closed captions are included.
It was made by the band YACHT (Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans, who wrote it), director JJ Stratford's Telefantasy Studios, and Panic programmer Dustin Mierau. Panic teased Blippo+ as a Steam release in December 2024, then surprise-released this Playdate version alongside Season Two's first games on 29 May 2025. New programmes arrived every Thursday at 10am PT for 11 weeks, followed by reruns.
It's now sold on its own in the Catalog. It's in the Catalog's "Game of the Year" collection. At the 2025 Playdate Community Awards it won Best Narrative Game, Best Sound Design and Best App or Knickknack. Panic compares the content to "an old episode of The Twilight Zone".
Who made it
What others are saying
The Verge (Andrew Webster, 12 Jul 2025). describes Season Two as 12 games for $39 "plus whatever the heck the FMV-based Blippo Plus is".
https://www.theverge.com/games-review/705348/playdate-season-2-reviewCallout (?): No review yet. We haven't reviewed Blippo+ yet. This page is an overview built from official and press sources.
Sources
Checked 12 Oct 2026.
- Official Catalog page (description, credits, size, dates, content/AI/accessibility notes). https://play.date/games/blippo/
- Season Two page. https://play.date/games/seasons/two/
- 2025 Playdate Community Awards results (Playdate Squad). https://playdate-wiki.com/wiki/The_2025_Playdate_Community_Awards
- Engadget, Cheyenne MacDonald, "Playdate Season 2 review: Fulcrum Defender, Dig! Dig! Dino! and Blippo+", 31 May 2025. https://www.engadget.com/gaming/playdate-season-2-review-fulcrum-defender-dig-dig-dino-and-blippo-140036697.html
- Engadget, Week 2 review (11-week update schedule). https://www.engadget.com/gaming/playdate-season-2-review-the-whiteout-and-wheelsprung-130014285.html
- The Verge, Andrew Webster, 12 Jul 2025. https://www.theverge.com/games-review/705348/playdate-season-2-review
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On the card
A whole alien TV network in your Playdate: channel-surf Planet Blip's soaps, news and talk shows. Live-action, 1-bit and very strange.
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