HN Arcade
Hacker ApprovedGame directory in Games & consoles
A browsable index of games people have posted on Hacker News, useful for finding lesser-known browser games. Critics note broken links to HN threads and alphabetical-only sorting.
A browsable index of games people have posted on Hacker News, useful for finding lesser-known browser games. Critics note broken links to HN threads and alphabetical-only sorting.
21 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 19
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 90%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 19 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 9.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Useful index of HN-made games
“You'll find a bunch of these types of games there”
Comment from 6 Feb 2026 in “Super Monkey Ball ported to a website” “It's fun browsing the HN games compilation here”
Comment from 21 Oct 2026 in “Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits” “some of the lesser known ones are amazing”
Comment from 9 Apr 2026 in “Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?” - Comment from 9 Apr 2026 in “Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?”
Fun and worth returning to
“This is the best thing I've heard in a long time :)”
Comment from 21 May 2026 in “Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence” “HN Arcade is something I keep going back to.”
Comment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)” “Very nice! Like it a lot.”
Comment from 28 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: The HN Arcade”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Broken links to HN threads
“github link is 404, HN thread goes to wrong comment”
Comment from 28 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: The HN Arcade” “The links to HN threads seem to be wrong”
Comment from 29 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: The HN Arcade”
What people said
22 of the 25 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“It's fun browsing the HN games compilation here”
“HN Arcade is something I keep going back to.”
“This is the best thing I've heard in a long time :)”
“Thank you for telling about hnarcade, I just bought a game from this web page!”
“I enjoyed this! Thanks for the index”
“some of the lesser known ones are amazing”
“The output is quite impressive.”
“Consider adding this to https://hnarcade.com :)”
“You'll find a bunch of these types of games there”
“The links to HN threads seem to be wrong”
“I appreciate that the site loads fast and navigation also feels snappy.”
“This is amazing. This one is much better as I couldn't get the interface the way I wanted.”
“Great sales pitch, I'm guilty of fomo and added my stuff, kudos.”
“real-time multiplayer (works out of the box), web-native games (just share a link)”
“the UI gives me a headache, especially when the "found words" are still loading”
“This is great. Thank you for building and sharing it.”
“github link is 404, HN thread goes to wrong comment”
“Nice concept. One question: was the data generated by an LLM?”
“Nice! I wanted to do the same”
“Very nice! Like it a lot.”
“Yet, I got alphabetic sorting. (Good for librarians, the worst possible for actual recommendations.)”
“Smart idea! Some curated graphics for each game in the preview cards would really enhance this.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.