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Bill Woo · Published by Pwoo · Official site ↗
Positive — 88% positive (17 reviews) · 19 achievements
Last updated 3 Oct 2026
A retro penguin platformer designed for Gameboy. Perfect for fans of penguins and anyone looking for a moderate challenge in a cold setting!
Action, Indie, Free To Play · 2025 · More free games
Explore icy landscapes as you guide penguins through challenging levels in Rise of the Penguins GB. Experience classic gameplay from an indie developer with a touch of free-to-play fun.
About this game
Overview
"Rise of the Penguins" is a 2D Side-Scrolling Action-Platformer for Gameboy. The game is meant to be simple and linear but with some challenging enemies. The game is inspired by ghost n goblins and a bit of mega man.
Features
6 levels with a variety of enemies in each level
2 Extra Levels
Boss Rush Mode, Unlocked only after beating all 6 levels
6 mini boss enemies and 8 boss enemies(including the 2 ks ones) and a final boss
6 simple difficulty settings to adjust checkpoints to make the game harder or easier, with checkpoints resetting after a game over but modifiable through these settings.
Basic hud that shows the highscore, health and time remaining
Janky animations made by me
Minimal story with no text -but hoping the game is engaging enough to keep playing
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: 1 GHz or faster processor
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 300 MB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Portmaster build release Rise of the Penguins GB
forgot to mention but the portmaster build of the game got released here which I suppose is mainly for added visibility for more people to potentially find the game. So now on a retro handheld can play this build instead of the .gb file if wanted to.Read full article on Community Announcements (billwoo)Patch NotesOfficial
Rise of the Penguins GB Steam Integration and Full menu update
Sorry for the back to back spam but feel like this is worth highlighting. like the fancy boot animation😂steam integrationAdded 19 steam achievementsevery level now has a leaderboard and there is also a overall leaderboardmenuscrt filterchange background colorfancy menu soundsleaderboardrebind controlsRead full article on Community Announcements (billwoo)AnnouncementsOfficial
Preparing for android release added a few more menus
I made it sort of look like a purple gameboy. I could make it so you change the color but we'll see. I mostly added the controls so you can remap the controls as well as making it look nicer the buttons. main thing is getting the mobile controls ready for android thoughRead full article on Community Announcements (billwoo)AnnouncementsOfficial
KS Background Overhaul Done Rise of the Penguins GB
This includes the levels 1-6 and most of their backgrounds. does not include some of the boss backgrounds and the extras section and the 2 extra levels. For the export changed it to using this godoboy extension and template and it only there wasn't a mac export so now there is only linux and windows export versions. Can just download the rom file or play on the browser if on mac. For Context there was a small kickstarter to overhaul the backgrounds in the game. When i put it on steam in January it only had the first 2 levels done. Now it is all 6 Credit to Artist Michirin for excellent work!: https://michirin.itch.io/ And to the ks backers small community of 6 backers ty for support.Read full article on Community Announcements (billwoo)
