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Browser STEM game about refining crude oil, with physics mini-games for desalting, distillation, cracking and blending.

Terminal survival sim: pick a character and endure a collapsing job market

Role-play an ML optimizer doing distributed reinforcement learning with a friend

Small browser parody game about deliberately frustrating cancellation flows, poking fun at dark-pattern cancel and unsubscribe processes.

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

Satirical clicker: survive three days as a streamer, juggling health, stream hours, money and chat interruptions.

Card-based game: run IT support for a company overrun by eldritch horrors; balance tickets, budget and entropy.

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

Learn Kubernetes by running a simulated cluster through campaign levels and challenges