Deck Wreck: Demokracy is a single-player political card game coded entirely in Commodore BASIC v3.5 by Álmos Rajnai (Rachy/Methabolix) for the 2024/2025 Plus/4 GameDev competition.
You play as one of three characters—a businessman, a celebrity actress, or a con man—each with unique skills and drawbacks. Your goal is to become president of the fictional country Deccania by completing 11 progressively harder goal cards. The game presents you with situation cards, each offering three choices that require specific tokens (Activists, Money, Investments, Lawyers). Manage your resources carefully, because if you can’t afford any option, the game ends. Watch your token levels—too many or too few trigger consequence cards that can derail your campaign.
The concept is sharp political satire wrapped in a tight resource-management puzzle. Choices have consequences, good deeds sometimes pay off, and sometimes you’ll have to do shady things to win. It’s a conversion of Appmindful’s Android game, brought to vintage hardware with impressive PETSCII graphics and surprising depth despite the BASIC limitations.
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Captain Slim
Captain Slim and the Strange Island is an arcade-adventure game coded in machine code by Epy, with music by Csabo and additional graphics by Chronos. Released in March 2025 for the Commodore Plus/4 (PAL only, 64K), it’s available as freeware and has a definitive ending.
You guide the titular Captain Slim across a strange island, where your mission is to gather five relics. These artifacts are the key to unlocking a mysterious gate, which is your only means of escape from the island’s dangerous creatures. The game blends action with exploration, tasking you with survival and puzzle-solving as you navigate the hostile environment.
An engaging relic-hunt: stranded on a perilous island, you must find five hidden objects to open a gate and get out alive. It’s a classic adventure premise executed in a compact, machine-code-driven format for the Plus/4, with a strong emphasis on quick, skillful play to overcome the island’s threats.
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Gravity Boy
Gravity Boy is a machine-code arcade game released in March 2025 by Gods Of The Universe (GOTU), coded by LBM, with graphics by Jeva and music by Csabo. It runs on 64K PAL & NTSC Commodore Plus/4 systems and is available as freeware. It has a definitive ending and won 1st place in the Assembly category of the 2024/2025 Plus/4 GameDev competition.
The story begins when the hero’s peaceful space journey takes a disastrous turn—he accidentally runs over an unknown alien life form, severely damaging his space station and cutting all power. The only working device left is a handheld controller that can manipulate gravity. Your task is to use this unique gadget to navigate through the station’s dark, gravity-altered corridors, collect 8 hidden guides, and repair your ship to escape.
You control the hero with cursor keys or joystick, moving through a large, interconnected space station while managing the shifting physics. It’s a refined and expanded version of a 2024 Homelab-3 game, offering a challenging mix of platforming, puzzle-solving, and exploration with a distinctive gravitational twist.
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Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong is a machine-code conversion of the classic 1981 arcade platformer, released in July 2025 for the Commodore Plus/4 (64K, PAL & NTSC) by TCFS, with additional graphics by Unreal and Chronos, music by Csabo, and extra code by siz. It’s freeware and a high-score-chasing game with no ending.
The iconic story remains unchanged: you control Jumpman (later known as Mario) as he runs, jumps across platforms, and climbs ladders up a construction site to rescue his girlfriend Pauline from the giant ape, Donkey Kong, who hurls barrels and other obstacles from the top.
The game is faithful to the original arcade classic. You must navigate Jumpman through four distinct screen types (ramp, conveyor belt, elevator, and rivet stages), dodging barrels, fireballs, and other hazards to reach the top. It’s a test of precise timing and pattern recognition. This Plus/4 version includes a title screen by Veto (converted by Unreal), cracktro and TCFS logo graphics by Chronos, built-in cheat mode, and an initial difficulty selection with F3. It won 1st place in the Game Dev Compo at Árok 2025.
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Death Sector
Death Sector is a sci-fi themed arcade puzzler coded in machine code by Csabo, with graphics by KiCHY and Unreal, and additional code by TLC and BSZ. Released in September 2025 for the Commodore Plus/4 (64K, PAL & NTSC) on disk or tape, it’s freeware and has a definitive ending. The game holds a product code of P4W-001 and a user rating of 9.7/10.
The story follows a sci-fi narrative where you must navigate through a dangerous, sector-based environment. You explore diverse areas including caves, an epic mushroom zone, a city, warehouses, sewers with incinerators, and a partially functional lab. The goal is to solve puzzles, manage hazards like airlocks and valve controls, and ultimately find a way to escape.
You with your ship progress through distinct levels (Caves, The City, The Lab), each with unique environmental challenges. The game features an automap, a game over state, and a final escape sequence. Extras include a music box and original story content. It’s a polished, ambitious title that requires strategic thinking to overcome its sector-based obstacles and reach the ending.
