HN Arcade
Consumer and social
game directory
SHOW HN2026
How HN took it
20 positive, 39 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 13 critical, out of 72 comments about the project. Thread score +0.10.
Design: 4 for, 3 againstDocs: 0 for, 7 againstIdea: 4 for, 2 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Good idea for archiving Show HN games that would otherwise be forgotten.
From 3 comments
Nice! There are some great games on HN, but it’s difficult to catch them all. Shout out to the creator of enclose.horse, I’ve been playing this every day since I saw it on HN.
tippa123 on HNThese kinds of posts are what HN is all about.
lucideng on HNLove this. I've lost so many cool Show HN games to the void of "I'll check that out later." Finally a cure for my bookmark graveyard. I've submitted to add my SciFi Space MMO…
SteveChurch on HN
Objections
Links to HN threads and GitHub repos are wrong or 404 for several games.
From 4 comments
First item I clicked: github link is 404, HN thread goes to wrong comment. The game link itself works though! https://andrewgy8.github.io/hnarcade/games/games/sandspiel
rjh29 on HNThe links to HN threads seem to be wrong, check for example: https://andrewgy8.github.io/hnarcade/games/games/holedown https://andrewgy8.github.io/hnarcade/games/games/lichess
Nathanba on HNThe HN link for this one is wrong: https://andrewgy8.github.io/hnarcade/games/games/sandspiel
Exuma on HNsandspiel has the wrong HN Thread id and github repo
pokpokpok on HN
Alphabetical sorting makes it hard to find the most popular games.
From 2 comments
Thank you for sharing! I like the idea, I feel there is some work ahead so I could find it useful. I opened that to see what are the most recommended games on the Hacker News…
stared on HNPlease show the game list in random order, or starting in a random position. Just to promote the discovery of the games later in the alphabet. (Or end up with games called…
raphar on HN
Some listed games were generated by Claude and not vetted.
From 1 comment
Yeah, that one and 3-4 others were generated by Claude for local development. Unfortuantely, I didn't vet every link it generated. I'll fix them up now. Like the other poster…
yuppiepuppie on HN
Requests
Sort by upvotes or popularity.
From 3 comments
Is there a way to see the most popular / highest voted ones? If every submission makes it to the list it will collect lots of clutter.
smusamashah on HNVery nice! Like it a lot. One idea: could you sort it by upvotes as well?
baxtr on HNThank you for sharing! I like the idea, I feel there is some work ahead so I could find it useful. I opened that to see what are the most recommended games on the Hacker News…
stared on HN
Show screenshots or game graphics in cards.
From 3 comments
Thank you for sharing! I like the idea, I feel there is some work ahead so I could find it useful. I opened that to see what are the most recommended games on the Hacker News…
stared on HNSmart idea! Some curated graphics for each game in the preview cards would really enhance this. Nice "retro orange" on the landing :)
keepamovin on HNIt might have been mentioned already, but displaying screenshots from the game would be nice. I appreciate that the site loads fast and navigation also feels snappy.
LandenLove on HN
Move the project to a community GitHub organisation.
From 1 comment
This is great. Thank you for building and sharing it. May I request you to consider moving this project to a community organisation like https://github.com/<your-new-org> so that…
susam on HN
Add sort by newest or publish date.
From 1 comment
it would be good if you added a sort by new on the site so that we can view recent games or the publish date of the game
Bulbasaur2015 on HN
Questions
Was the data generated by an LLM?
From 1 comment
Nice concept. One question: was the data generated by an LLM? Don't mean this in a snarky way. The Lichess entry links to a non-existent HN thread[1], and "Show HN: Lichess" does…
koito17 on HN
Is the list ordered randomly?
From 1 comment
This is truly excellent. The grid is completely randomly generated?
eps on HN
Alternatives named
hn-games by labarilem
From 1 comment
Cool project! I'm building something quite similar at https://hn-games.marcolabarile.me/ I manually curate the data and add images too. Code and data are open:…
labarilem on HN