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05.10.2026 - C64 game 'FablePhobia: The Wrong Map' released
'FablePhobia: The Wrong Map' is a short story-driven C64 adventure and the third part, set in the strange world of Fablephobia, It is focused on atmosphere, dialogue and simple choices. Alice and Pippa find an old map. They don't know where it came from or what it is trying to show them. As new places begin to appear on it, they decide to follow them and see where the map leads. Their journey takes them through several unusual places, with strange encounters, odd situations and a few decisions along the way. You can get them as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

04.10.2026 - C64 game 'One More Haul' released
'One More Haul' is an arcade action game with certain similarities to the classic Boulder Dash. Take your mining rig beneath the surface, carve a shaft through the rock, then leave the cab to explore. Mount remote TNT on gray chamber walls, retreat before the blast, and carry each treasure back to your machine. But beware, drilling and explosions can loosen stone and falling rocks crush on impact, and quicksand spills into opened tunnels. You can carry one treasure at a time. Your rig can hold the entire haul. Getting that loaded machine home is the part that matters. You can get the game as digital download for a fair price to support the developer, but you are also able to download a free demo version to test it first.

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 - 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 - 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 - New C64 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.

01.10.2026 - C64 game 'RGB Invaders' released
'RGB Invaders' is an arcade shooter for C64 where colours are your weapons. Invaders in seven colours are coming down on your launcher. You have three keys: J fires a red ring, K a green one and L a blue one. A ring only destroys invaders of its own colour.Press keys together to mix different additional colours. Only one ring can be out at a time, so every shot counts. If a single invader reaches the bottom, the game is over. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

29.09.2026 - C64 game 'Bitmap Pixies' released
'Bitmap Pixies' is a fast paced single screen arcade-style game, that was released exclusive for patreons of ZZAP! 64 Micro Action in December 2025. Move around with joystick in either port and collect all pixies to progress to next level, no fire button needed in this game. Collecting the colors in correct order is rewarded both in time and points so pay attention to the sequence. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

29.09.2026 - C64 game 'Void Lancer' released
'Void Lancer' is a brand-new horizontal shooter for the C64. Fly the Void Lancer into a world grown out of flesh, bone and machinery. Inspired by the art of H. R. Giger. Ribbed tubes, xenomorph skulls, egg chambers, bone cathedrals and resin hives scroll past in smooth, pixel-by-pixel hardware scrolling while you blast your way through six long stages to six giant bosses. Features 6 stages, 6 giant bosses, power-up bar, fair collisions, original SID soundtrack with 8 tunes. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

29.09.2026 - C64 game 'Battle Tanks 64' released - free for download
'Battle Tanks 64' is a port of Battle Tanks: The Next Generatio for ZX Spectrum Next. It's more than an ordinary arcade game. Your tanks are equipped with artificial intelligence and are controlled automatically. Your task is to choose when and which tank to buy. Choosing the right strategy can be the key to victory.