.kkrieger
Hacker ApprovedShares rank 12 of 24 first-person shooters by recommenders
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.
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.
12 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 12
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 12 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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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
Impressively small for a 3D shooter
“The best first person shooter 96kb ever produced!”
Comment from 29 Jul 2026 in “User Interfaces of the Demo Scene” “It's incomprehensible that it's only 96kb.”
Comment from 9 Jan 2026 in “Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU” “accomplishes a 3d shooter in 97,280bytes”
Comment from 3 Nov 2025 in “Why Nextcloud feels slow to use” Visually impressive despite tiny size
“impressively optimized and modern looking despite the size”
Comment from 21 Jul 2026 in “Build a Game That Fits on a Single Floppy Disk: 1.44MB Game Development Contest” “looked very impressive when it was released”
Comment from 3 Jul 2026 in “Quake in 13 Kilobytes” “looked visually impressive for the time”
Comment from 11 Jan 2026 in “This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser”
Other first-person shooters people recommend
The four most recommended other first-person shooters, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quake | 118 | 29 | 80% | 12 | 28 yrs8 owners | Approved |
| Doom by id Software | 102 | 24 | 81% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Unreal Tournament 2004 | 51 | 12 | 81% | 6 | — | Approved |
| Quake III Arena | 49 | 3 | 94% | 10 | — | Approved |
| .kkriegerThis page | 12 | 0 | 100% | 6 | — | Approved |
What people said
10 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I appreciate .kkrieger much more than this monstrosity”
“The best first person shooter 96kb ever produced!”
“impressively optimized and modern looking despite the size”
“looked very impressive when it was released”
“is my favorite of this genre of constraints”
“impressively small but also requiring insane compute”
“Still works on modern PCs!”
“looked visually impressive for the time”
“It's incomprehensible that it's only 96kb.”
“accomplishes a 3d shooter in 97,280bytes”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.