# .kkrieger

12 Hacker News commenters recommended .kkrieger and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Recommended as an impressively small 96 KB first-person shooter that still runs on modern PCs; its main caveat is that it needs heavy compute for its size.

## Why people recommend it

- Impressively small for a 3D shooter (3 comments): "The best first person shooter 96kb ever produced!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096014)) "It's incomprehensible that it's only 96kb." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46551074)) "accomplishes a 3d shooter in 97,280bytes" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800722))
- Visually impressive despite tiny size (3 comments): "impressively optimized and modern looking despite the size" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987488)) "looked very impressive when it was released" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48775194)) "looked visually impressive for the time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581220))

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- [Half-Life](https://hackerapproved.com/p/half-life.md): 42 recommend

## Cite as

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