Open Source Games(opensourcegames.dev)
4 points by tokozedginidze | 0 comments
Open Source Games is a curated directory of new open-source games found on GitHub, filterable by genre, platform, play style and controls, with play links.
#indie-games on Hacker News
41 stories tagged indie-games, newest first.
Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest(ign.com)
113 points by 4gateftw | 229 comments
IGN news article reporting that Steam users want a filter to hide AI-generated games as Steam Next Fest is flooded with low-effort AI titles.
Diablo 2 Survivors(d2survivors.lol)
23 points by bigwheels | 10 comments
A fan-made browser game combining Diablo 2 with the Vampire Survivors-style survivors-like genre.
Beyond These Stars(store.steampowered.com)
10 points by doener | 5 comments
Steam store page for Beyond These Stars, a strategy city-builder where players build a city on the back of a space whale and manage supply chains.
Tiny Brutalism – Thanks to HN it's on Steam(store.steampowered.com)
45 points by MatiErnst | 5 comments
Steam store page for Tiny Brutalism, a relaxing diorama building game based on brutalist architecture with concrete towers and impossible structures.
Teach My Little Sister How to Drive(steamcommunity.com)
5 points by croes | 0 comments
Steam Community news page for the game Teach My Little Sister How To Drive, showing patch notes and development status updates.
Time Travel in Braid (2015)(qntm.org)
93 points by Ariarule | 38 comments
A 2015 essay by qntm analyzing the time travel mechanics in the puzzle platformer game Braid.
Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art(newgrounds.com)
430 points by azhenley | 126 comments
Newgrounds homepage, a community site for games, music, and art, shown here behind a Spooktober-themed bot-check/security interstitial.
Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux(againstallodds.games)
59 points by nor-and-or-not | 26 comments
Blog post from indie studio Against All Odds about PasRISCV, the RISC-V emulator running Linux inside their space terraforming game SEEDS.
Tiny Brutalism(placeholders.itch.io)
104 points by abetusk | 27 comments
Itch.io store page for Tiny Brutalism, a $5 downloadable architecture sandbox game for Windows, macOS, and Linux by Placeholders.
The backend that ran every game we made, ten years and counting(m2h.nl)
8 points by MikeHer | 2 comments
Blog post by M2H's Mike Hergaarden describing the self-built backend for crash reports, remote config, cloud auth and console ports used across seven games over ten years.
Fuck it, make it anyway(joelotter.com)
504 points by JayOtter | 495 comments
A personal blog essay by indie game developer Joel Auterson encouraging people to make their creative projects anyway despite doubts.
Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made(kotaku.com)
796 points by oumua_don17 | 332 comments
Kotaku impressions article on Running Train, a Japanese train driving simulator made by a single developer that is drawing glowing Steam reviews.
Exapunks (2018)(zachtronics.com)
317 points by yu3zhou4 | 109 comments
Official Zachtronics page for Exapunks, a 2018 programming puzzle game about hacking with EXA agents, featuring a gameplay trailer.
Making Graphics Like it's 1993(staniks.github.io)
894 points by sklopec | 150 comments
Personal blog post by Marko Stanic about Catlantean 3D, a side-project game with early-1990s style graphics he plans to release on Steam.
Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)(noelberry.ca)
411 points by alvivar | 193 comments
Blog post by indie developer Noel Berry describing how he makes video games in 2025 without a commercial engine, covering his tools and libraries.
Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games(adventuregamestudio.co.uk)
381 points by doener | 80 comments
Homepage of Adventure Game Studio, an open-source tool for creating point-and-click adventure games, with a games catalog and community.
Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles(arstechnica.com)
335 points by furcyd | 498 comments
Ars Technica preview of Jonathan Blow's puzzle game Order of the Sinking Star, which grew over a decade into roughly 1,400 puzzles.
Making video games (without an engine) in 2025(noelberry.ca)
482 points by selvan | 210 comments
Blog post by indie developer Noel Berry describing how he makes video games in 2025 without using a commercial game engine.
VVVVVV Source Code(github.com)
385 points by radeeyate | 72 comments
GitHub repository by Terry Cavanagh hosting the source code of the indie platformer game VVVVVV, with desktop and mobile versions.
Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic(theatlantic.com)
896 points by brgross | 156 comments
The Atlantic's hosted version of Bracket City, a nested-clue word puzzle game, shown with its welcome tutorial dialog.
Solitaire(localthunk.com)
444 points by goles | 142 comments
Blog post by LocalThunk, creator of Balatro, explaining how Klondike solitaire was the most important inspiration for the game's design and vibe.
Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam
1484 points by newobj | 340 comments
Show HN AMA post by a former Meta compiler engineer who, after being laid off, made the roguelike pachinko game Ballionaire, which sold ~200,000 copies on Steam.
I deleted my social media accounts(asylumsquare.com)
364 points by joemanaco | 398 comments
A blog post on a game studio's Backstage blog explaining why the author deleted their social media accounts and urging others to do the same.
Kenney.nl: Free Game Assets(kenney.nl)
506 points by memalign | 44 comments
Kenney.nl homepage offering thousands of free, donation-supported game assets, tools, and starter kits for game developers.
Doom, the Gallery Experience(bobatealee.itch.io)
527 points by anigbrowl | 62 comments
An itch.io browser game by bobatealee that reimagines Doom as a gallery-visiting experience; the screenshot shows only the game's loading bar.
"This is not a joke, Funko just called my mom"(twitter.com)
514 points by haunter | 124 comments
A post by itch.io on X saying Funko called the founder's mom, with a screenshot of a text message about a strange call from a company.
Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month(newsletter.gamediscover.co)
365 points by TaurenHunter | 81 comments
GameDiscoverCo newsletter issue analyzing how the indie building game Tiny Glade sold over 600k copies in its first month, plus game discovery and platform news.
Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate(play2048.co)
531 points by terabytest | 177 comments
The official 2048 site featuring a redesigned tenth-anniversary version of the sliding-tile puzzle game, with powerups and a classic mode, by its original creator.
Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)(howtomarketagame.com)
325 points by lopespm | 218 comments
A 2021 post on How To Market A Game advising game developers not to rely on platforms they don't control and to build owned channels instead.
Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned(theverge.com)
404 points by nickcotter | 199 comments
The Verge reports that the entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive resigned after negotiations to spin it out as an independent company broke down.
Put the DVD logo in the corner (2023)(eieio.games)
381 points by EndXA | 74 comments
A developer's game diary post about building a PICO-8 arcade game where you steer the bouncing DVD logo into the corner.
Everyone is John: A competitive roleplaying game for three or more people (2002)(rtwolf.github.io)
361 points by doener | 32 comments
The canonical text of Everyone is John, a competitive tabletop roleplaying game for three or more players, republished under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Downpour is the game creation tool I have been working on for the past few years(v21.io)
356 points by surprisetalk | 63 comments
Blog post by V Buckenham announcing the release of Downpour, a mobile game-making tool built from photos and drawings.
Making small games, which is fun in itself(abagames.github.io)
376 points by breck | 67 comments
A chapter from an online book by abagames on the joys of making small browser games, citing the Small Game Manifesto and the author's 350+ games.
Mindustry: Open-source automation tower defense game(mindustrygame.github.io)
515 points by 0x000042 | 107 comments
Official website for Mindustry, an open-source sandbox tower-defense and automation game, with links to GitHub, Discord, wiki, and app stores.
Despite just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from the Linux community (2021)(old.reddit.com)
349 points by sohkamyung | 127 comments
A r/gamedev Reddit post by the developer of ΔV: Rings of Saturn noting Linux players made 5.8% of sales but over 38% of bug reports.
Frasier Fantasy(edward-la-barbera.itch.io)
496 points by gaws | 124 comments
An itch.io browser game page for Frasier Fantasy, a Final Fantasy-style parody of the sitcom Frasier by Edward La Barbera.
LCD, Please(dukope.itch.io)
442 points by abra0 | 89 comments
Itch.io page for LCD, Please, a pocket LCD-style passport control game by Lucas and Keiko Pope, playable in the browser.
Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics(mslivo.itch.io)
786 points by Akharin | 171 comments
Itch.io page for Setris, a downloadable pay-what-you-want Tetris-like game with sand physics for Windows and Linux, with a trailer video.
It's A(door)able(ncase.me)
934 points by michaelbrooks | 109 comments
A one-minute browser puzzle game by Nicky Case where the player uses arrow keys to move a character, collect a key, and reach a door.