# Crimsonland

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Crimsonland and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for how long it kept them hooked and how much it influenced later recreations. Some say the Steam version lost the feel of the original 2003 game.

## Why people recommend it

- Hooked players for long stretches (1 comments): "I remember 13yo spending day after day on this game despite being an avid crpg player those days." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46885937))
- Influenced later recreations (1 comments): "The game was influential enough to cause multiple people being involved in recreations" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46884754))
- Recent version praised (1 comments): "The recent Crimsonland thing [1] was great!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48381222))

## What people warn about

- Steam version lost original feel (1 comments): "I thought the updated version that they later released on Steam never captured the original feeling" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46884237))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Helldivers 2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/helldivers-2.md): 50 recommend
- [Triple-A Minesweeper](https://hackerapproved.com/p/triple-a-minesweeper.md): 40 recommend
- [Quake II](https://hackerapproved.com/p/quake-2.md): 33 recommend
- [Red Dead Redemption 2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/red-dead-redemption-2.md): 28 recommend
- [Grand Theft Auto (1997)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grand-theft-auto.md): 28 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Crimsonland", https://hackerapproved.com/p/crimsonland/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).