Hacker News Games

Text-based open-world crime game for the terminal, written in Bash: travel cities, take jobs and heists, buy weapons, manage health and inventory.

Factorio-like browser game: place machines that emit byte streams, route them through filters and real shell commands, and output sound and visuals.

City-builder and political sim where you run a city as mayor, dealing with gangs, media, elections and police.

An artificial life sandbox where you drop food, trigger plagues and watch species evolve

Physics-based 3D chess board with over-the-board realism, playable against Stockfish or online via WebRTC

Browser isometric city-builder prototype: sculpt terrain, lay roads, zone buildings and manage power and water.

Multiplayer exploration of a procedural world: you only see and chat with players within 100 pixels of you.

Browser roguelike with dungeon crafting, a physics sandbox and 75+ minigames.

Explore a procedural world, farm crops and mine resources in a 2D sandbox