Casper Kelly’s Horror Movie Buddy Is Getting a Retro Game Boy Color Game

IGN tin exclusively uncover that the caller endurance fearfulness movie Buddy is getting a throwback video crippled tie-in that’s afloat compatible with GameBoy Color.

As the movie’s authoritative synopsis explains, Buddy is “the agleam orangish unicorn, prima of that classical children's tv show, the 1 who brought joyousness and beingness lessons into your surviving country each afternoon. Inside the colorful satellite of It's Buddy, a radical of children walk their days singing, dancing, and helping Buddy dispersed happiness. Then 1 kid refuses to play along. Buddy is not pleased, and cracks statesman to look successful this seemingly cleanable world.”

Developed by playinstinct and published by ModRetro, Buddy: The Video Game is targeting a Q4 2026 merchandise connected the ModRetro Chromatic. Like its namesake movie, the crippled mixes endurance horror, ocular caller storytelling, and a postulation of show-themed mini games.

Watch the exclusive teaser trailer for Buddy: The Video Game.

"Buddy already has specified a chiseled identity, truthful the crippled gives america a batch to play with," said Chris Beach, Head of Games Publishing astatine ModRetro. "It tin beryllium comic and colorful 1 moment, past genuinely unsettling the next. playinstinct has done a large occupation carrying that hostility into each mode."

Buddy: The Video Game offers the pursuing modes:

• Live the Movie successful Story Mode: Immerse yourself successful the film's storyline. Will you effort to appease Buddy, oregon defy him and trigger his deadly wrath?

• See How Long You Last successful Survival Mode: No story, nary information net. Run, hide, and scavenge for endurance arsenic Buddy hunts you down crossed locations from the movie.

• Turn the Tables successful Buddy Mode: Step into the oversized hoofs of the orangish unicorn himself. Hunt down fleeing children and enforce the rules of the show.

• Wholesome Fun successful Mini Game Mode: Need a interruption from moving for your life? Take a enactment and dive into a postulation of cheerful show-themed mini games. Dance, dust, paint, ride, and bat your mode to precocious scores and achievements.

Buddy is directed by Casper Kelly (Too Many Cooks) from a screenplay helium co-wrote with Jamie King. It stars Keegan-Michael Key arsenic Buddy, alongside Cristin Milioti, Topher Grace, Michael Shannon, and Patton Oswalt.

Buddy opens successful theaters August 28, 2026 from Roadside Attractions and Saban Films.