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07.10.2026 - C64 game 'U-Boat Raider' released
In 'U-Boat Raider' you take command of a World War II U-boat in the dangerous waters of the North Atlantic. Patrol for merchant convoys, line up your targets through the periscope, and launch torpedoes before their escorts close in. Every attack carries a risk. Destroyers hunt you with sonar and depth charges, battleships return fire, and hidden mines threaten your route to resupply. Choose your targets, aim carefully, and know when to dive. Featuring classic C64 graphics, SID sound effects, and joystick controls, U-Boat Raider challenges you to sink 550,000 GRT of enemy shipping and return from patrol.

06.10.2026 - C64 game 'Gate Game' released
'Gate Game' is a logic puzzler for C64. Switch gates to control the flow of electricity. You can get them as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

06.10.2026 - 'Tricky Tetris' - game for C64 and Plus/4 released
Tricky Tetris is a complete Tetris game for the Commodore 64 / Plus/4 and Ultimate 64, created by Zsolt Tarczali in 2026. It has everything you would expect from Tetris: falling pieces, levels, hold, line clearing, high scores and increasingly fast gameplay. But there is one important difference: the game occasionally plays tricks on you. You can get them as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

06.10.2026 - Protovision Shop: Galencia is back
The acclaimed Galaga-inspired C64 action shooter Galencia by Jason Aldred is fully back in stock – including the disk version! All boxed editions are packed with a 16-page full-color manual, a glass-surface coaster, a small metal bee, and a sticker. If you want the ultimate package, grab one of the special editions bundling the cartridge with the disk – plus a space amulet to keep your luck up in the later levels. All editions are PAL and NTSC compatible and include digital images of the tape and disk versions.

06.10.2026 - C64 game 'Loukoumas' released
'Loukoumas' is a new platformer for C64, about a plump, overweight European Shorthair with short legs, enormous eyes and an unappeasable love of cured meats that has been woken by a rumble in his own stomach. You can get them as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

05.10.2026 - Plus/4 game 'Skool Daze' released - free for download
'Skool Daze' was a major classic on the ZX Spectrum and C64, and the school mischief simulator has finally arrived on the Plus/4 as well. Step back into school as Eric, a mischievous pupil with a catapult and a report card that needs fixing! Attend lessons, dodge angry teachers, uncover the safe combination, and cause plenty of classroom chaos along the way. This Commodore Plus/4 adaptation brings Skool Daze to life with refreshed graphics, new music, and lively sound effects. Can you outsmart the staff before the punishment lines pile up?

05.10.2026 - C64 game 'Necrosis' released
'Necrosis' is a new platformer for the C64. It started on the night shift at St. Jude's Infirmary. By midnight, the wards were full of the dead - and the dead were hungry. You wake alone on a gurney. Three people are still alive somewhere in the dark: a nurse on the wards, a priest who went down into the catacombs, and a nun ringing the chapel bell in Blackmoor Cemetery. Fight, run and climb your way out through the infirmary, the undercroft and the graveyard. Save who you can. Do not get bitten. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain to support the developer.

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.