Theme · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
Games and gaming tools
Casual, puzzle, word, trivia, strategy, multiplayer and indie games plus trackers and tools for gamers and collectors.
New projects this week
212
Last 12 weeks
1,953
Share of all new projects
8.8%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+7%
Share of new projects, per week
Groups in this theme
| Group | This week | 12 wks | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily logic puzzle games | 24 | 173 | ▲ +30% |
| Online card, board & party games | 21 | 195 | +22% |
| Casual mobile arcade games | 19 | 150 | +16% |
| Video game backlog trackers | 18 | 129 | ▼ -31% |
| Casual browser games | 16 | 179 | +16% |
| Browser strategy and simulation games | 13 | 143 | ▲ +47% |
| Browser racing and driving games | 13 | 111 | -4% |
| Trading card collection trackers | 13 | 75 | +14% |
| Trivia and quiz games | 12 | 125 | -14% |
| Tabletop RPG and RPG games | 12 | 115 | -11% |
| Chess training and analysis tools | 11 | 76 | -7% |
| AI-assisted game creation | 10 | 126 | ▲ +32% |
| Daily word puzzle games | 10 | 109 | ▼ -23% |
| Multiplayer browser games & matchmaking | 8 | 135 | +10% |
| Indie video game showcases | 7 | 53 | ▼ -21% |
| Geography guessing and quiz games | 5 | 59 | ▼ -26% |
Stack
Share of the 705 projects in this theme that stated their stack, last 12 weeks.
- Vercel 13%
- Three.js 8%
- GitHub Pages 7%
- JavaScript 7%
- TypeScript 7%
- React 6%
- Next.js 5%
- Cloudflare 5%
AI tools
Same projects.
Most discussed this week
- Cosmic Breach — Adds a Minecraft dimension split into four layers, each ending in a boss fight, with mobs, a mount, and custom boss AI and animations.“I let Opus 5.5 run for 54 hours straight and it built a full Minecraft boss mod ($2,032 of API usage) Part 1 of 4”
- Tiltanic — Lets players steer a boat through gates by tilting their phone in a browser game with a daily shared sea.“I turned phone tilting into a tiny boat game.”
- Week 9 of making my fishing… — Simulates a fishing game with harbour scenes, fish collection, and moral dilemma mechanics across starting zones.“Week 9 of making my fishing game with the help of AI”
- Wumpus Torture Simulator — Lets users damage a cartoon character in a 3D physics sandbox using tools like mallets, knives, explosives and acid.“I hate Discord, so I vibecoded Wumpus Torture Simulator.”
- Treadline — Gamifies running by unlocking real landmarks and badges when users run loops around locations.“I built a gamified running app where you collect real landmarks by running a loop around them”
- RIP, Jim — Lets users build Ultima-style role-playing games with a custom scripting language and seasons.“RIP, Jim. This one's for you.”
- SWARMFALL — Runs a Vampire Survivors-style survival game in which the player fights waves of enemies rendered with Gaussian splats.“Made a "3d-engine" that uses gaussian splats instead of polygon models with opus 5.5. Then I asked it to make a vampire survivors like game using the engine.”
- Two Max accounts drained in 24… — Builds a real-time strategy game using AI coding models.“Two Max accounts drained in 24 hours : (”
- maxihop — Lets kids play movement-based browser games where their body acts as the controller.“I vibed a site full of movement games for kids. It's completely free, enjoy!”
- I used computer vision to teach… — Scans a Rubik's cube through a phone camera and guides the user through the solve move by move with a 3D animation and spoken instructions.“I used computer vision to teach me how to solve a Rubik’s cube”
Latest
- Geographido — Runs a daily geography guessing game where players name countries from a sequence of one-word clues, with hot, warm, or cold feedback on wrong guesses.“I built a free geography game where you try and guess the country from one-word clues”
- Big Bean Battle — Lets players flick dice into a garden of plots in a dexterity game where the highest score on a plot claims it, playable in the browser against bots, friends, or online.“Publisher passed on my board game, now making a web version”
- I made a free tool that… — Estimates the FPS of each game in a Steam library for a chosen GPU, CPU, resolution and settings, and flags the bottleneck for each.“I made a free tool that estimates the FPS for every game in your Steam library – no login, no download”
- Afterparty — Hosts six free multiplayer party games playable in a browser or as a Discord voice-channel activity.“I turned my free browser party games into a Discord activity”
- PlayWizardChess — Lets users play chess in a browser with 3D animated moves and captured pieces that break apart.“I made a free browser chess site where every move is animated in 3D and captured pieces break apart”
- Sudoku Mega — Offers offline sudoku puzzles in multiple grid sizes and difficulty levels, with auto-save for multiple games.“I made a free offline sudoku app for Android, from quick 4x4 grids to brutal 17-clue 9x9 puzzles”
- TILEZ — Lets players build and program small tile-based machines in a game.“I'm making TILEZ - little programmable machines.”
- Fuse Breaker Protocol — Lets players fight through levels in a fast-paced top-down shooter.“Fuse Breaker Protocol just launched for FREE on Google Play Store! Inspired by Hotline Miami and Police Stories”
- HoleZ — Idles owned Steam games that still have card drops remaining and shows the farming session's progress on Android.“I built an Android app for automatic Steam card farming — HoleZ”
- The Sound — Presents one daily mystery sound that players worldwide guess at the same time, with hints unlocking every six hours.“I made a daily audio puzzle where you compete against everyone else live”
- Luff Gomoku — Lets players play five-in-a-row (Gomoku and Renju) against an adjustable AI opponent, with undo, save/load and move hints.“Luff Gomoku / Renju (Five in a Row) vs AI for iPad & Mac”
- Midnight Menace — Lets players sneak through a house as kids stealing a game console or hunt them as a parent, with proximity voice chat.“Made a PS1 style multiplayer game! Midnight Menace”
- sportscardhunt — Shows per-player sports cards collectors most want, with eBay auction prices gathered nightly.“I built a site to find your favorite player's best sports cards”
- LoColemotion — Drives a simulated creature's joints in physics engines to produce walking, turning, and getting up, with an experiment harness that preregisters and records test runs.“I tried to remake Spore and ended up building a locomotion SDK and an experiment harness instead”
- halyava games deals bot — Monitors Epic, Steam, GOG and Itch.io for free and discounted games and sends a filtered Telegram digest.“I kept missing Epic's free games, so I built a Telegram bot that runs on Cloudflare Workers for free”