Be Kind To Yourself

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.

Credits

© 2024 Jan Martinek at Mouflon Cloud. Music by Seth Walker (Seth_Makes_Sounds)! Additional music by szegvari and Mouflon Cloud. 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 ★

Also available
on Playdate Catalog

Only the Catalog version of Be Kind To Yourself includes access to global scoreboards. Itch.io version contains current high scores at the time of publication. If you want to compete against other players, consider getting the Catalog version.

What is Playdate? 

It’s a tiny console from Panic! If you don’t have the console, you can also play the game in a Playdate Simulator, but it’s much less cute. If you have Playdate but don’t know how to sideload games onto it, you can follow this tutorial (it’s really easy and works on mobile).

Support

If you encounter any problem or unexpected behavior, you can send me a DM on socials or just add a comment below. I’ll try to reply asap!