Computer games

Computer games that Hacker News readers keep rediscovering.

Hall of Fame: 15
Candidates: 23
Topics: 7
Median span: 7.9 yrs

Topics in Computer games

7 topics

Computer games 28 links 9 Hall · 19 Candidates Education & learning 3 links 2 Hall · 1 Candidates Computer science 2 links 1 Hall · 1 Candidates Mathematics & science 2 links 1 Hall · 1 Candidates AI & data 1 link 1 Hall · 0 Candidates Design & creativity 1 link 0 Hall · 1 Candidates Security & privacy 1 link 1 Hall · 0 Candidates

Strongest Hall records

15 items

Universal Paperclips

www.decisionproblem.com Tools, games & demos 29 submissions · 27 people · 8.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-09 Resurfaced 2023-08-02

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Vim Tutorial as an Adventure Game

vim-adventures.com Tools, games & demos 18 submissions · 17 people · 14.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2015-03 Resurfaced 2022-09-23

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Regex Crossword

regexcrossword.com Tools, games & demos 30 submissions · 27 people · 11.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-09 Resurfaced 2022-12-31

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Flexbox Froggy

flexboxfroggy.com Tools, games & demos 10 submissions · 10 people · 9.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-02 Resurfaced 2023-09-30

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Elevator Saga – An elevator programming game

play.elevatorsaga.com Tools, games & demos 15 submissions · 15 people · 10.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-06 Resurfaced 2022-10-18

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NandGame – Build a Computer from Scratch

nandgame.com Tools, games & demos 13 submissions · 12 people · 7.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-04 Resurfaced 2022-04-16

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Veloren – Voxel action-adventure role-playing

veloren.net Tools, games & demos 8 submissions · 7 people · 5.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-03 Resurfaced 2025-03-29

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Quick, Draw

quickdraw.withgoogle.com Tools, games & demos 10 submissions · 10 people · 9.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-03 Resurfaced 2021-03-29

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Click

clickclickclick.click Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 8.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-05 Resurfaced 2026-05-18

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A Slower Speed of Light

gamelab.mit.edu Tools, games & demos 9 submissions · 9 people · 11.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-05 Resurfaced 2024-05-12

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Is it Pokemon or Big Data? (2016)

pixelastic.github.io Tools, games & demos 10 submissions · 10 people · 8.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-04 Resurfaced 2021-04-11

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A first person shooter in 571 lines of GNU Awk (2017)

github.com Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 7.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-01 Resurfaced 2023-01-19

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Craft: A simple Minecraft clone written in C using OpenGL shaders

github.com Tools, games & demos 5 submissions · 5 people · 11.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-02 Resurfaced 2023-05-26

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Show HN: Video Game in a Font

www.coderelay.io Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 4.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-02 Resurfaced 2023-05-26

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RegEx Crossword

jimbly.github.io Tools, games & demos 5 submissions · 3 people · 8.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-10 Resurfaced 2025-10-28

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Click

clickclickclick.click Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 8.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-05 Resurfaced 2026-05-18

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RegEx Crossword

jimbly.github.io Tools, games & demos 5 submissions · 3 people · 8.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-10 Resurfaced 2025-10-28

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Veloren – Voxel action-adventure role-playing

veloren.net Tools, games & demos 8 submissions · 7 people · 5.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-03 Resurfaced 2025-03-29

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A Slower Speed of Light

gamelab.mit.edu Tools, games & demos 9 submissions · 9 people · 11.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-05 Resurfaced 2024-05-12

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Flexbox Froggy

flexboxfroggy.com Tools, games & demos 10 submissions · 10 people · 9.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-02 Resurfaced 2023-09-30

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Candidates

Browse 23 candidates

Show HN: The Deadlock Empire – Slay dragons, master concurrency

deadlockempire.github.io Tools, games & demos 16 submissions · 15 people · 8.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-07-08

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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KernType – A Kerning Game

type.method.ac Tools, games & demos 17 submissions · 15 people · 14.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-07-27

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Official SkiFree Home Page

ski.ihoc.net Tools, games & demos 13 submissions · 13 people · 16.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-05-17

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Can't Unsee

cantunsee.space Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-11-21

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era

www.openra.net Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 4 people · 7.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-01-25

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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The Command Line Murders

github.com Tools, games & demos 4 submissions · 4 people · 9.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-07-25

Needs:5 submissions

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Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL

schemaverse.com Tools, games & demos 10 submissions · 10 people · 9.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-11-29

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Alligator Eggs

worrydream.com Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 6 people · 13.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2015-01-18

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Mindustry – Open-Source Game

mindustrygame.github.io Tools, games & demos 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-12-22

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Keep Out – WebGL Game

www.playkeepout.com Tools, games & demos 3 submissions · 3 people · 8.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-04-27

Needs:5 submissions

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HyperRogue: A puzzle roguelike in a non-Euclidean world

roguetemple.com Tools, games & demos 5 submissions · 5 people · 7.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-11-02

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

www.chiark.greenend.org.uk Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-07-26

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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TimeGuessr

timeguessr.com Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 5 people · 2.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-06-10

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart3 active years

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Citybound – A city building game using actor-based distributed simulation

aeplay.org Tools, games & demos 3 submissions · 3 people · 6.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-08-14

Needs:5 submissions

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It is as if you were doing work

pippinbarr.github.io Tools, games & demos 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-06-05

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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DOOM Captcha

vivirenremoto.github.io Tools, games & demos 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-03-28

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes

slowroads.io Tools, games & demos 4 submissions · 4 people · 2.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-04-04

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Euclidea – Geometric construction game with straightedge and compass

www.euclidea.xyz Tools, games & demos 4 submissions · 4 people · 8.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-10-19

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Warriorjs – An exciting game of programming and artificial intelligence

github.com Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 4 people · 6.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-05-11

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Endless Sky: an open source space trading and combat game

endless-sky.github.io Tools, games & demos 4 submissions · 4 people · 7.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-08-16

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Turing Complete is a game about computer science

turingcomplete.game Tools, games & demos 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-01-09

Needs:5 submissions

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The Unix Pipe Card Game

punkx.org Tools, games & demos 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-01-20

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Show HN: Yare.io – game where you control units with JavaScript

yare.io Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 2 people · 4.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-03-06

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart3 submitters

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