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Ancient Loops turns the Playdate’s crank into a sound instrument

Ellsworth Toohey
Jun 23, 2026
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The Playdate’s hand crank was built for games, but it keeps luring developers to go weird. Ancient Loops, a free download from the two-person French team EVB Studio, isn’t a game — it has “no levels, no chapters, no fail state, and no unlockable progression.” You load eight cards into two slots and turn the crank, which “activates c…

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