The best Playdate games for 2025

Have you ever seen those memes about couples playing Overcooked together, where one person is taking it way too seriously and absolutely crashing out over the other player’s incompetence? That’s me to myself playing Cranky Cove. In Cranky Cove, you’ve inherited some farmland in the titular town and suddenly find yourself being the point person for just about every part of its operations, from food production and service to building and selling artisanal goods. Customers start showing up to your wheel of resources, and you’d better satisfy their orders in a timely manner or they’ll be cranky. Fulfilling an order requires matching the appropriate worker with the correct tool for the job and whatever ingredient is needed for the final product, using the crank to rotate the individual rings of the wheel until they’re in alignment both with each other and with the customer. It all descends to chaos pretty fast as the customers start piling up and orders become more complicated. There are t ... Read full article.