# Slope HTML5 remake

8 Hacker News commenters recommended Slope HTML5 remake and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** A free browser remake of Slope that people enjoy playing, and one commenter built an ML-themed version from it. Critics find the start controls hard to get used to.

## Why people recommend it

- Fun to play (1 comments): "I thought it was fun to play, and wanted a version for ML, so made this website." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676995))

## What people warn about

- Ball swerves when starting a run (1 comments): "it's really hard to put my finger down at the start of the run and not have an immediate swerve of the ball" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127276))
- Controls unclear, tilt expectation confuses (1 comments): "I also wrongly assumed that the controls required me to tilt my phone and died instantly." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130362))
- Not very good yet (1 comments): "It's probably not that good right now, except on academic writing, which is mostly what I trained it on." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956959))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [TinyWind](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tinywind.md): 61 recommend
- [Starfling](https://hackerapproved.com/p/starfling.md): 59 recommend
- [Starcraft: Ashfall](https://hackerapproved.com/p/starcraft-ashfall.md): 46 recommend
- [Half-Life 2 in a Browser](https://hackerapproved.com/p/half-life-2.md): 42 recommend
- [Number Gacha](https://hackerapproved.com/p/number-gacha.md): 33 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Slope HTML5 remake", https://hackerapproved.com/p/slope/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).