# The Entire City of San Francisco

13 Hacker News commenters recommended The Entire City of San Francisco and 4 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Fun to wander and drive around the city, with slow tile loading, buggy performance, and a hard-to-use camera as common complaints.

## Why people recommend it

- Fun to explore the city (4 comments): "This was loads of fun haha. I would have liked to have optionally clicked a button and started at my current physical location because the tile load time dominated how long it took to get there." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424873)) "very fun game. I don't live there any longer but I "ran" the commute from my apartment to work." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425932)) "Had a lot of fun (tedious tho) going out to Alcatraz and figuring out how to get in." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423652))
- Captures the feel of driving (2 comments): "very fun game. I don't live there any longer but I "ran" the commute from my apartment to work." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425932)) "felt like it captured the feeling of driving around the city" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49431181))

## What people warn about

- Memory leaks and overheating (2 comments): "I'd guess that you need to have your agent do a couple of passes for memory leaks." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423707)) "I got the spinner wheel for a while and my phone started getting hot" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423900))
- Buggy and locks up browsers (2 comments): "This locks up safari on my recent macbook pro and you cant close the window to clear it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49427428)) "This is buggy as hell and the quality of the textures is terrible." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432224))

## 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, "The Entire City of San Francisco", https://hackerapproved.com/p/entire-city-of-san-francisco-as-a-video-game/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).