# Sunflowers

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Sunflowers and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for useful hints and puzzles that never require guessing, even at the hardest levels. Caveats: only daily levels playable for some, and the feedback form is broken.

## Why people recommend it

- Genuinely useful hints (1 comments): "I love the hints - it's the first time I've seen genuinely useful hints in something like this" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49128664))
- Enjoyable, great game (1 comments): "Great game I've been enjoying it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005202))
- Never requires guessing, even hardest (1 comments): "You never have to guess even at the hardest difficulty levels" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062546))

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- [Outer Wilds](https://hackerapproved.com/p/outer-wilds.md): 65 recommend
- [enclose.horse](https://hackerapproved.com/p/enclose-horse.md): 64 recommend
- [The Witness](https://hackerapproved.com/p/witness.md): 60 recommend
- [Braid](https://hackerapproved.com/p/braid.md): 36 recommend
- [Blue Prince](https://hackerapproved.com/p/blue-prince.md): 30 recommend

## Cite as

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