Casper Kelly’s ‘Buddy’ to Get a Retro Game Boy Color Game Later This Year
Yes, Casper Kelly’s killer unicorn mascot movie, Buddy, is really getting a retro game boy color game later this year.
No, really.
IGN reports that Casper Kelly‘s (Too Many Cooks) upcoming horror film, Buddy, is getting a retro Game Boy Color game. How cool is that?
Two seconds into the teaser below, I’m obsessed. It opens with that retro AF look, featuring a little girl as she tells Buddy the Unicorn she’s scared, only for Buddy to reply, “That’s great!” Cue the unsettled shivers.
The game was developed by playinstinct and will be published by ModRetro. At the moment, Buddy: The Video Game is targeting a Q4 2026 release on the ModRetro Chromatic.
IGN notes that the game mixes survival horror, visual novel storytelling, and a collection of show-themed mini games.
As for the film, Buddy comes from Casper Kelly, the filmmaker behind the brilliantly bizarre viral short Too Many Cooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jamie King. The film takes the warm and fuzzy world of a 1990s children’s television show and turns it into something considerably more sinister.
The official synopsis explains that a group of children spend their days singing, dancing, and learning life lessons inside the colorful world of “It’s Buddy!,” hosted by a bright orange unicorn named Buddy. Everything begins to fall apart when one of the children refuses to play along and Buddy isn’t particularly happy about it.
Keegan-Michael Key voices Buddy, with Cristin Milioti, Delaney Quinn, Topher Grace, Michael Shannon, and Patton Oswalt also starring. The film premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was reviewed for Dread Central.
Casper Kelly’s twisted horror comedy has officially been rated R for “bloody violence, some drug content and language,” which sounds fairly standard for a horror movie until you get to the final four words of the rating: