Sound Mind
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Sound Mind is "a hide-and-seek game for two players sharing one Playdate". Its setup is a will. The late Richman Q DeSeese leaves his fortune "in unnaturally heavy doubloons" to his "selfish and conniving children", Kane and Mabel, on one condition: they spend the night locked in his haunted study, "with its cursed grandfather clock that stops time for one person every 30 minutes". Players take turns using hiding places, secret passages and traps to end the night with the whole inheritance. The twist is sound: "your opponent can hear every single thing you do".
It's by Chuck Jordan, who made Season One's Sasquatchers, with audio by Julian Kwasneski and Jared Emerson-Johnson of Bay Area Sound. The game has been in development for a long time. Its Catalog page was first published in November 2023, and Jordan's blog post that month ("Sound Mind, or Committing to the 1-bit") describes it as a "two-player game where you play as siblings fighting over your father's inheritance". Panic lists it among its "Monochrome Masterworks". The store page warns that it's "heavily dependent on audio, and it may not be playable for people with hearing loss". It uses A, B and the crank.
Sound Mind hasn't unlocked yet. It's one of the six games still to come in Season Three (two each Thursday through 29 October 2026). Its content note calls it "darkly comic", with "light-hearted references to death, funerals, and oblique mentions of murder".
Who made it
What others are saying
Not released yet, so there are no reviews. Announcement coverage:
- The Verge (Andrew Webster, 9 Oct 2026): among Season Three's upcoming games is "hide-and-seek for two players on the same handheld". https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/1008441/playdate-season-3
- Engadget (Jessica Conditt, 9 Sep 2026): names it as the new game from Sasquatchers developer Chuck Jordan. https://www.engadget.com/2254393/playdate-season-3-kicks-off-on-october-8/
- Chuck Jordan, developer (blog, 9 Nov 2023): "two-player game where you play as siblings fighting over your father's inheritance… you can hear every step". https://spectrecollie.com/2023/11/09/sound-mind-or-committing-to-the-1-bit/
Callout (?): No review yet. We haven't reviewed Sound Mind yet. It hasn't been released yet; this page sums up what has been officially announced.
Sources
Checked 12 Oct 2026.
- Official Catalog page (description, credits, size, dates, content/AI/accessibility notes). https://play.date/games/sound-mind/
- Season Three page. https://play.date/games/seasons/three/
- Chuck Jordan, "Sound Mind, or Committing to the 1-bit", 9 Nov 2023. https://spectrecollie.com/2023/11/09/sound-mind-or-committing-to-the-1-bit/
- The Verge, Andrew Webster, 9 Oct 2026. https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/1008441/playdate-season-3
- Engadget, Jessica Conditt, 9 Sep 2026. https://www.engadget.com/2254393/playdate-season-3-kicks-off-on-october-8/
- Panic lists, Monochrome Masterworks. https://play.date/games/
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Two siblings, one haunted study, a fortune in doubloons. Take turns hiding, trapping and listening in a pass-the-Playdate game where your rival hears everything.
