# Games on Whales

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Games on Whales and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free open-source project that streams PC games to Moonlight clients, including remote use, and reported to work well without a dummy HDMI monitor.

## Why people recommend it

- Streams to remote or low-power devices (2 comments): "It seems you can stream to multiple underpowered systems provided you have network, RAM, GPU and enough cores." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981266)) "You can do it completely remotely." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976906))
- Reported to work well (2 comments): "The games on whales project is really good" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431176)) "seems to work perfectly in my experience" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48975880))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Moonlight](https://hackerapproved.com/p/moonlight.md): 68 recommend
- [Sunshine](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sunshine.md): 55 recommend
- [Sunshine and Moonlight](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sunshine-and-moonlight.md): 18 recommend
- [Parsec](https://hackerapproved.com/p/parsec.md): 16 recommend
- [Steam Remote Play](https://hackerapproved.com/p/steam-remote-play.md): 10 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Games on Whales", https://hackerapproved.com/p/games-on-whales/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).