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Be Kind To Yourself
As the name suggests, Be Kind To Yourself is an intense puzzle arcade game.
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Description
As the name suggests, Be Kind To Yourself is an intense puzzle arcade game. It looks like a shmup but plays kinda like a falling block puzzle game at 120 beats per minute. Build and crash your combos to achieve mind-boggling scores! Your mission is simple but hard: Send off hyperstones to the delta dimension. By carefully crafting groups of stones (either of the same type or multiple pairs of them) and keeping your combo alive, you can reach absurd scores and make your mom proud of you! The Handbook of Work Safety contains only eternal wisdom: You’d better know that losing a life does not break your combo . At the same time, the handbook says , you gotta turn your combo in before going for the sweet relief of a game over. You don’t wanna see those juicy numbers go poof ! Be cool and act accordingly. Explore multipliers and bonuses, play on the beat, and look for the Space Owls and artifacts to be the best.
- Crank: Required
- Tilt: Not used
- Microphone: Not used
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Credits © 2024 Jan Martinek at Mouflon Cloud. Music by Seth Walker (Seth_Makes_Sounds) and szegvari. (Hosted by freesound.org, dedicated cc0.) Sound effects by soundeffect-lab.info. Special thanks go to Panic for Playdate and everything around it. Playdate Squad mods and community for being the best. Toad for encouragement and keeping a secret! Pajka, Toad, PajamaTorture, and Lefloic for trying the game out. Pajka & Františka for everything ★
Accessibility
This game uses either D-Pad + buttons or a combination of crank and buttons. The crank has adjustable dead zones. Players can change the screen orientation of the game (standard, rotated 90 degrees clockwise or counter-clockwise). The game removes the full-screen flash in 'Reduce Flashing' mode. This mode can be activated in Accessibility part of Playdate’s Settings.
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Be Kind To Yourself Panic Playdate Handheld Gameplay
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Kelleher Bros.
Playdate game reviews: Round 3
Lucas Kelleher
2026-07-01
Be Kind To Yourself is a horizontal shooter game where you target geometric shapes in space. It’s a bit unconventional, as illustrated by the fact that the targets move left to right and your ship is oriented on the right-hand side of the screen. It also has a combo and scoring system that genuinely
Playdate: The Unofficial Website
Be Kind To Yourself
Nick Simberg
2024-05-12
Be Kind To Yourself by playing this combo-focused shmup
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Memos Completed
- 1 Bluejay_Mike 26,004,017
- 2 DavidWakka3 26,001,010
- 3 Vasco1782 25,005,026
- 4 parchmentEngineer 25,003,011
- 5 char 25,003,008
- 6 chrome 24,012,012
- 7 Fenggrosso 24,012,003
- 8 doiion 24,011,026
- 9 Dean_0 24,011,002
- 10 ericbn 24,008,023
The GOAT
- 1 SoinkstersChris 99,836
- 2 Fxture 59,802
- 3 Chas_Hodges 58,002
- 4 kartacha 47,715
- 5 apjjabi 30,359
- 6 Niashi 13,984
- 7 parchmentEngineer 9,608
- 8 Fenggrosso 8,514
- 9 Dean_0 8,287
- 10 doiion 6,879
Time To 100K
- 1 Fxture 19,460
- 2 Chas_Hodges 40,080
- 3 Nnnn 49,000
- 4 Dean_0 49,440
- 5 Bluejay_Mike 50,380
- 6 doiion 56,560
- 7 apjjabi 56,840
- 8 Niashi 57,700
- 9 LlamaLlama 59,760
- 10 parchmentEngineer 60,180
Best Single Combo
- 1 SoinkstersChris 1,835,840
- 2 Fxture 1,571,020
- 3 Chas_Hodges 1,421,640
- 4 kartacha 796,950
- 5 Jamison 700,380
- 6 apjjabi 623,700
- 7 MouflonCloud 550,800
- 8 parchmentEngineer 422,760
- 9 Niashi 410,700
- 10 Dean_0 373,500
Longest Combo
- 1 Fenggrosso 67
- 2 SoinkstersChris 66
- 3 Dean_0 59
- 4 doiion 56
- 5 kartacha 55
- 6 LlamaLlama 47
- 7 Fxture 47
- 8 apjjabi 46
- 9 ericbn 45
- 10 Sarcastik 44
High Scores
- 1 SoinkstersChris 2,098,570
- 2 kartacha 1,793,450
- 3 Chas_Hodges 1,700,910
- 4 Fxture 1,610,080
- 5 apjjabi 1,225,490
- 6 Jamison 739,810
- 7 Fenggrosso 697,260
- 8 Niashi 674,220
- 9 parchmentEngineer 611,830
- 10 MouflonCloud 602,990
Age note: This game contains a lot of *pew pew* against abstract objects but should be appropriate for everyone.
AI: This game's developer created it without the use of generative AI.