Weball
Shares rank 23 of 48 browser games by recommenders
A Katamari-style game where you roll up page elements on any website, praised as fun, addictive and well made. The main caveat is that framerate drops on pages with lots of text.
A Katamari-style game where you roll up page elements on any website, praised as fun, addictive and well made. The main caveat is that framerate drops on pages with lots of text.
13 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 85%
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: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 5.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
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
Fun and addictive gameplay
“Horrible framerate after a few hundred words, but super fun until then!”
Comment from 20 Oct 2026 in “Weball: Play Katamari on Websites” “lwn.net makes for a pretty fun level. See how big a combo you can get!”
Comment from 20 Oct 2026 in “Weball: Play Katamari on Websites” “most addictive things I have seen in ages”
Comment from 20 Oct 2026 in “Weball: Play Katamari on Websites” Awesome, well-made and polished
“Awesome! This sort of thing brings me back to the good old days”
Comment from 20 Oct 2026 in “Weball: Play Katamari on Websites” “this is surprisingly well done”
Comment from 18 Oct 2026 in “Weball: Play Katamari on Websites”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Framerate drops on text-heavy pages
“Horrible framerate after a few hundred words, but super fun until then!”
Comment from 20 Oct 2026 in “Weball: Play Katamari on Websites”
Other browser games people recommend
The four most recommended other browser games, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TinyWind | 61 | 19 | 76% | 1 | — | — |
| Starfling | 59 | 17 | 78% | 1 | — | — |
| Starcraft: Ashfall | 46 | 12 | 79% | 1 | — | — |
| Half-Life 2 in a Browser | 42 | 11 | 79% | 6 | — | Approved |
| WeballThis page | 11 | 2 | 85% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
9 of the 14 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“lwn.net makes for a pretty fun level. See how big a combo you can get!”
“Awesome! This sort of thing brings me back to the good old days”
“You can't fully roll up the first page”
“Very cool idea got sucked into rolling up the corporate site.”
“It was playable even on an 8 year old iPhone XS.”
“the main enabler is that it gets out of the business of HTML really quickly”
“Horrible framerate after a few hundred words, but super fun until then!”
“most addictive things I have seen in ages”
“this is surprisingly well done”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.