Voronoi Go
Shares rank 6 of 15 board games by recommenders
A Go game with a web version and a bot opponent, praised for being well made and feeling like real Go. Critics find it hard to learn and say the bot's easy level is not easy.
A Go game with a web version and a bot opponent, praised for being well made and feeling like real Go. Critics find it hard to learn and say the bot's easy level is not easy.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 82%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 4.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not 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
Well made, solid implementation
“Everything else is very well done and it's really a game of go, with eyes, invasions, connections, cuts.”
Comment from 27 Aug 2026 in “Show HN: Voronoi Go” “Looks solid, best of luck with it.”
Comment from 28 Aug 2026 in “Show HN: Voronoi Go”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Hard to learn, unclear what makes moves good
“My takeaway from the past couple months is that the game is just kind of hard to learn.”
Comment from 27 Aug 2026 in “Show HN: Voronoi Go” “I bounced off the tutorial the first time and by the end of it had no desire to play a full game against a bot”
Comment from 27 Aug 2026 in “Show HN: Voronoi Go” “It's not intuitive at all what makes a move good or bad.”
Comment from 28 Aug 2026 in “Show HN: Voronoi Go”
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| Voronoi GoThis page | 9 | 2 | 82% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
10 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the easy bot is not very easy”
“the continuous space made it really hard to judge whether there was enough room”
“It's not intuitive at all what makes a move good or bad.”
“Played a few games against the bot on the small board, enjoyed it.”
“Looks solid, best of luck with it.”
“the web version is eating 90% of my laptop's CPU when playing against the bot”
“My takeaway from the past couple months is that the game is just kind of hard to learn.”
“Everything else is very well done and it's really a game of go, with eyes, invasions, connections, cuts.”
“the site refreshed sometimes which restarted the tutorial”
“I bounced off the tutorial the first time and by the end of it had no desire to play a full game against a bot”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.