Retro Gadgets Playground Lets Players Share Their Creations Later This Month
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2025 1:55 pm
Bologna, Italy - September 4, 2025 | Bologna & Reykjavik-based Evil Licorice have announced a new free download Retro Gadgets Playground coming to PC (via Steam) on September 18. Retro Gadgets Playground allows players to go hands-on with the creations made by players in Retro Gadgets, the sandbox coding, gadget-tinkering hit.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1730 ... o_Gadgets/
Retro Gadgets launched into Early Access back in December 2022 and the teams have been hard at work adding more tools and creation options to early adopters. Players have created an incredible library of creations, from retro consoles to calculators, chiptune music player; really anything player coders can conjure up in their imaginations.
While Evil Licorice are hard at work work on a story mode for Retro Gadgets and launch version 1.0, more information will need to be shared at a later date. But the teams are excited to see players go hands-on with some of the imaginative creations in Retro Playground in just a few short weeks.
Retro Gadgets Playground is launching on PC (via Steam) for free on September 18. To keep up to date, be sure to follow Retro Gadgets on X and Bluesky, and join their Discord.
About Retro Gadgets Playground
Discover, run, and play with thousands of amazing community-made gadgets—for free!
Welcome to Retro Gadgets Playground, your standalone launcher for gadgets built by players in the hit game Retro Gadgets. With Playground, you can download, install, and run community-made gadgets as if they were standalone apps—no programming knowledge required, no need to own the main game!
From mini-games and music players to retro-style utilities, quirky desktop companions, creative tools, and beyond—there are thousands of gadgets waiting to be discovered. Launch them from your desktop, run them at startup, or keep your favorites running side-by-side like you're back in the golden age of computing.
What You Can Do in Retro Gadgets Playground:
Browse a huge library of player-made gadgets
Explore a growing collection of original gadgets built in the Retro Gadgets editor.
Run gadgets like real applications
Each gadget runs in its own window. Launch them directly from the Playground or create desktop shortcuts for easy access.
Auto-launch at startup
Want your pixel pet or retro to-do list always running in the background? Add gadgets to your Windows startup with a click.
Run multiple gadgets at the same time
Mix and match—run a chiptune music player, a calculator, and a minigame, all at once.
Thousands of Gadgets. One Playground. Infinite Nostalgia.
Every gadget you find in the Playground was made by a player in Retro Gadgets—a powerful electronics sandbox where creativity knows no bounds. Playground is completely free, and it’s the perfect way to experience what the community is making.
About Evil Licorice
Marco Bancale and Luca Marchetti have been friends since the '90s, dreaming of making video games together. They walked down different paths and independently founded two game studios: Licorice and Studio Evil. Over the years both studios went on to release successful titles such as Kingdom and Super Cane Magic ZERO. In late 2020, Marco came up with the stem for an unorthodox new game, Retro Gadgets, and instantly knew that Luca would have loved working on it. That's how Evil Licorice was born.
About The IndiEXP
The IndiEXP is a small marketing and PR agency based in Adelaide, Australia looking to market and promote hidden gems made by talented independent game developers.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1730 ... o_Gadgets/
Retro Gadgets launched into Early Access back in December 2022 and the teams have been hard at work adding more tools and creation options to early adopters. Players have created an incredible library of creations, from retro consoles to calculators, chiptune music player; really anything player coders can conjure up in their imaginations.
While Evil Licorice are hard at work work on a story mode for Retro Gadgets and launch version 1.0, more information will need to be shared at a later date. But the teams are excited to see players go hands-on with some of the imaginative creations in Retro Playground in just a few short weeks.
Retro Gadgets Playground is launching on PC (via Steam) for free on September 18. To keep up to date, be sure to follow Retro Gadgets on X and Bluesky, and join their Discord.
About Retro Gadgets Playground
Discover, run, and play with thousands of amazing community-made gadgets—for free!
Welcome to Retro Gadgets Playground, your standalone launcher for gadgets built by players in the hit game Retro Gadgets. With Playground, you can download, install, and run community-made gadgets as if they were standalone apps—no programming knowledge required, no need to own the main game!
From mini-games and music players to retro-style utilities, quirky desktop companions, creative tools, and beyond—there are thousands of gadgets waiting to be discovered. Launch them from your desktop, run them at startup, or keep your favorites running side-by-side like you're back in the golden age of computing.
What You Can Do in Retro Gadgets Playground:
Browse a huge library of player-made gadgets
Explore a growing collection of original gadgets built in the Retro Gadgets editor.
Run gadgets like real applications
Each gadget runs in its own window. Launch them directly from the Playground or create desktop shortcuts for easy access.
Auto-launch at startup
Want your pixel pet or retro to-do list always running in the background? Add gadgets to your Windows startup with a click.
Run multiple gadgets at the same time
Mix and match—run a chiptune music player, a calculator, and a minigame, all at once.
Thousands of Gadgets. One Playground. Infinite Nostalgia.
Every gadget you find in the Playground was made by a player in Retro Gadgets—a powerful electronics sandbox where creativity knows no bounds. Playground is completely free, and it’s the perfect way to experience what the community is making.
About Evil Licorice
Marco Bancale and Luca Marchetti have been friends since the '90s, dreaming of making video games together. They walked down different paths and independently founded two game studios: Licorice and Studio Evil. Over the years both studios went on to release successful titles such as Kingdom and Super Cane Magic ZERO. In late 2020, Marco came up with the stem for an unorthodox new game, Retro Gadgets, and instantly knew that Luca would have loved working on it. That's how Evil Licorice was born.
About The IndiEXP
The IndiEXP is a small marketing and PR agency based in Adelaide, Australia looking to market and promote hidden gems made by talented independent game developers.