List of 2025 Homebrew Games on SEGA Console (Genesis, Dreamcast, SMS, etc)

[Berto]

Added release date for The Secret of the Four Winds (SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive) : February 26, 2025

Shipments for the first batch of pre-orders will begin now as advertised and without delay.
It will take 3 months to send them all. Please be patient.

Source: https://x.com/Kai_MSX/status/1894740910656614524

[Berto]

ZPF (SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive) Kickstarter  - Behind the Beats Dev Talk + Live Performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiqKjw8C1EE

We're still buzzing about the positive reception of our lore trailer from last week! We were blown away by the response, and it's been fantastic to see so many people excited about the world of ZPF. We even got some amazing press coverage, with Forbes calling it "a wildly colorful and frantic throwback to games like Gradius, R-Type, and Steel Empire" and Retro Dodo saying it's "filled to the brim with bosses and insane levels with high-energy chiptune tracks." It means the world to us to see our vision resonate with ...

Article: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/megacatstudios/zpf-a-new-sega-mega-drive-genesis-game/posts/4319798

[Berto]

HarleQuest! (SEGA Dreamcast) - February 2025 Update

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4NDoGXd-xk

We have just released the latest Dreamcast demo build, HarleQuest! Demo 4 (the same one we showed at the Debug Awards).
You can grab it here: https://github.com/kilgariff/harlequest-builds/releases/tag/harlequest-demo-4

Like the previous demo, this build showcases the first floor of the Dungeon culminating in a fight with the first boss, The Executioner.
It reflects the current state of the game including the following changes since the last demo:

- 60fps performance on the Dreamcast.
- Updated combat & controls (block and aim moved to right trigger).
- Sound effects play on many actions.
- Area-specific background music playing via CD direct audio.
- Procedural area generation (previous demo was fixed layout).
- Updated camera (now more zoomed in, but looks ahead where player is moving).
- Enemies now fade out consistently after defeat.
- Chests always emit items in the correct direction.

There are also some known bugs: ...

Article: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ross-codes/harlequest-a-new-3d-dungeon-crawler-for-the-sega-dreamcast/posts/4327722

[billybob884]

Hooray the forum's back! In the meantime, I've found two new projects:

Prisonela MD
A new action/platformer game for sale on steam (includes ROM download), with a demo ROM available on their itch.io page.
https://twoblackcats.itch.io/prisonelamd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJGzDH8sYPA


The Suffering of Animals
A (somewhat depressing) visual novel/adventure game boasting 15 different endings.
https://safetystoatstudios.itch.io/suffer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB4mrmG6jHQ

[Berto]

Hooray the forum's back! In the meantime, I've found two new projects:

Prisonela MD
A new action/platformer game for sale on steam (includes ROM download), with a demo ROM available on their itch.io page.
https://twoblackcats.itch.io/prisonelamd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJGzDH8sYPA


The Suffering of Animals
A (somewhat depressing) visual novel/adventure game boasting 15 different endings.
https://safetystoatstudios.itch.io/suffer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB4mrmG6jHQ

Nice. Added, thanks billybob. 
I watched the Suffering of Animals soundtrack videos before in Safety Stoat Studios youtube channel and I thought they're the title of the songs, turned out it's the title of the game.
Kinda an unusual game title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Xb5T152CY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kNLvu9wdVs

[Berto]

Added The Three Stoges for SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive

The original Cinemaware hit THE THREE STOOGES for the first time on the Sega Megadrive/Genesis!
Can the Stooges help the poor widow save the orphanage from I. Fleeceem, the evil banker?  Moe, Larry, and Curly have only 30 days to earn enough money to stop Fleecem from foreclosing.  To pay off the mortgage, they'll need $5000.  With $10,000 they can pay off the mortgage AND repair the orphanage.
Moe has a map of Stoogeville, but can't make up his mind where to go next. There are 180 places to go in Stoogeville, all on a ... ...

Link : https://fabiof17.itch.io/the-three-stooges-demo

[Berto]

The Cursed Legacy (SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive) Kickstarter - Physical rewards update!

Hi everyone,

We now have all the print elements in hand, and the assembly work continues. We're still waiting on the OST CDs but it should arrive soon now.
The cartridges are already ready, and we're now putting everything in the game box. We expect to be sending out your rewards in April.
Sorry for the slight delay.

You'll soon receive the surveys to collect your postal addresses. We're looking forward to ...

Source: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brokestudio/the-cursed-legacy-new-game-for-your-sega-genesis-megadrive/posts/4341607

[Berto]

The Secret of the Four Winds (SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive) - Unboxing Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPSDB2nw4eA

[Berto]

Added Iron Man for SEGA Master System
It's a port of fixed version of the incredible hard Iron Man botleg game for SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive.







https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgazUGNOcuI

Old pirate: "This is a port of my game from SMD. Despite the fact that the game was ported to a weaker device, the game has undergone significant improvements. The main one is scrolling.
The game has a simple plot and the same simple gameplay. You need to get to the end of the level, destroying enemies and avoiding traps along the way. You will have to do all this over the course of 20 levels."

Link : https://old-pirate.itch.io/iron-man-sms2

[Berto]

Added The Chess Rooks Puzzle forSEGA Master System

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79ejM6un348

This game is an original implementation of the well known chess rooks puzzle. The chess rooks puzzle is a variation of the well known eight queens puzzle game with rooks used instead of queens. The eight queens puzzle was first published in 1848 by Max Bezzel. A generalisation of the eight queens puzzle , to an n by n sized chessboard, for some value n, has also been known and studied since the 19th century.

In the chess rooks puzzle, which is a one player game, game you are given an n by n sized chessboard, for some value n, and n rooks. To solve the puzzle you must arrange the rooks so they are all on used on the board and none of the rook capture any other rook. A rook is captured in some straight line according to the rules of chess.

So the game design is not an original idea-as it is already a known chess puzzle game that has been played for over a hundred years-but the Sega Master System implementation is an original implementation and includes a novel feedback artificial intelligence. The Master System game is an implementation of this old known game where n is equal to 16 (i.e. a 16 by 16 chessboard). Once you have found a solution then the game will use its artificial intelligence to give you feedback. So if your solution was an easy to find solution then you will be told to ...

Link : https://www.smspower.org/Homebrew/TheChessRooksPuzzle-SMS

[billybob884]

Here's a new little project: 1 Bit Pong

There's no info on its page, nor a video, but from the screenshots it looks like single-player pong but rotated 90deg.

https://mrbackware.itch.io/1-bit-pong-genesis







Also, I couldn't spot this in any of the other posts, Mark Day is working on a re-port of Double Dragon:

https://x.com/masterlinkueibr/status/1906124603925164288

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsbcqe_2RZA

[billybob884]

Found another new project: Sir Ababol, a port of an action/platformer NES game by the Mojon Twins. Looks to be an ongoing WIP, but I'm not 100% on that

https://old-pirate.itch.io/sir-ababol

https://x.com/OldPirate11/status/1906708442607218738

[billybob884]

And the hits keep coming! Goblin is a 2D rogue-like turn-based RPG:

https://bearmade.itch.io/goblin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Q1WIsB-4E

[billybob884]

And another! Tough Guy Fighting Spirits - A new fighting game from Piko Interactive, but being released through "Bleem", which I don't fully understand what it is... I think it's trying to be a steam-like service/marketplace for retro games?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bClCm26Y_TY

[billybob884]

Aaand got a bunch more.

Dweep: a demake of a 1999 PC game of the same name. Sadly the download link is broken, though I guess you could build your own copy.

https://x.com/Haroldo0k/status/1907947176921006531

https://github.com/bttsea/dweep-gen






HugPunx: another demake from a 2013 web game of the same name

https://x.com/Haroldo0k/status/1907945877567844799

https://github.com/tttmmmsss/hugpunx







This ones a bit older but I couldn't spot it on the list anywhere, Crime City, a port of the Taito arcade game of the same name

https://x.com/masterlinkueibr/status/1837630884867944706









This final one is more of a tech demo/proof of concept than a game, so not sure if you'd want to include it; there's no "formal title" other than SGDK ASCII Roguelike. It's a procedurally generating map that you can navigate and collect items, but that seems to be all.

https://x.com/Haroldo0k/status/1907950184908169315

https://github.com/bearmade/SGDK-ASCII-roguelike