LAUNCH·INDEX

Games & Entertainment (GAME)

Sector · Show HN · data as of Oct 31, 2026, 3:03 PM UTC

57+2 (+3.6%)

launches · 7D Oct 24–Oct 30 vs Oct 17–Oct 23 (55)

9.3%—

hit rate · Oct 22–Oct 28 settled (5/54) vs Oct 15–Oct 21 (3/53)

— Not significant at current sample size: +3.6pp, 53 → 54 settled launches (needs 100+ in each window).

+1.6

trending score

Launches & hit rate

Supply · launches per day
01020Oct 17: 6 launchesOct 18: 5 launchesOct 19: 7 launchesOct 20: 10 launchesOct 21: 9 launchesOct 22: 10 launchesOct 23: 8 launchesOct 24: 3 launchesOct 25: 7 launchesOct 26: 11 launchesOct 27: 7 launchesOct 28: 8 launchesOct 29: 8 launchesOct 30: 13 launchesOct 31: 1 launches (incomplete day)Oct 17Oct 19Oct 21Oct 23Oct 25Oct 27Oct 29Oct 31
Demand · hit rate per day (share of settled launches with 10+ votes)
0%10%20%Oct 17: 0 of 6 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 18: 1 of 5 settled launches hit 10+ votes (20.0%)Oct 19: 0 of 7 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 20: 1 of 10 settled launches hit 10+ votes (10.0%)Oct 21: 0 of 9 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 22: 1 of 10 settled launches hit 10+ votes (10.0%)Oct 23: 1 of 8 settled launches hit 10+ votes (12.5%)Oct 24: 0 of 3 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 25: 1 of 7 settled launches hit 10+ votes (14.3%)Oct 26: 2 of 11 settled launches hit 10+ votes (18.2%)Oct 27: 0 of 7 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 28: 0 of 8 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 29: launches not settled yetOct 30: launches not settled yetOct 31: incomplete dayOct 17Oct 19Oct 21Oct 23Oct 25Oct 27Oct 29Oct 31

3 days left blank: votes still coming in (launches under 48h old), incomplete day, or no launches — not shown as zero.

Faded bars are incomplete days (today, or days before every selected source was being collected).

Key statistics

Launches
13Oct 30
Avg daily launches
7.427d
7D range
3 – 13Oct 24–Oct 30
Hit rate
9.3%5/54 · Oct 22–Oct 28
Volatility
56%26 daily chg
Share of market
5.7%7D
Top source
Show HN100%
Previous window
55Oct 17–Oct 23

Stocks in this sector (GAME)

Highest traction among products launched in the last 7 days. Traction for older Product Hunt launches is frozen (votes stop being re-read ~31–36h after launch; Show HN after 7 days), so this is each product’s last recorded traction. 56 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.

#Sector
1A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weightsGAME273+273IPO—1341343d ago
2To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing GameGAME216+216IPO—65652d ago
3I built a multiplayer game where you're an aerial fighter catGAME81+78—41423d ago
4Glider 4.0 Unofficial Web Edition (Mac game port)GAME4600.0%0167d ago
5A Minecraft mod that generates the world at 1:1 scaleGAME1800.0%027d ago
6Ultimidi

piano learning web game

GAME1100.0%067d ago
7Tiberava

My Game is growing

GAME900.0%023d ago
8Termcraft

2D terminal survival with multiplayer support

GAME800.0%047d ago
9Pure Particles, an open source art particle toy built with Three.jsGAME500.0%154d ago
10Zubspace.gg

remake of 30yo Subspace game, a space MMO in the browser

GAME500.0%058d ago
11Diagonals (Diago)

a chess variation where the pieces stay diagonally

GAME500.0%026d ago
12UnicornFork a Chess AI That Is Fact Checked by StockfishGAME40—017d ago
13Harness Corp

An incremental game powered by a local LLM using WebGPU

GAME40—005d ago
14RPI Pico (RP2040) PIO Emulator Package for GoGAME40—007d ago
15Reduce

A Daily Puzzle

GAME3+1—243d ago
16Castellan

A real-time strategy game for agents

GAME30—047d ago
17A Daily Poem Writing PuzzleGAME3+3IPO—223d ago
18Balk

A Baseball Game

GAME3+3IPO—002d ago
19We made a puzzle game for mixing color imagesGAME30—004d ago
20I Made a Multiplayer 3D Shooter Game in Lisp (Again)GAME30—007d ago
21I Made a Public Transit Optimization Puzzle GameGAME20—025d ago
22Million Piece PuzzleGAME2+2IPO—112d ago
23Game to Learn Python ProgrammingGAME20—014d ago
24I made a card game where you use cards to make a target numberGAME20—014d ago
25Built an astrology website with a unique/differentiating featureGAME20—003d ago
26Argument duello game with your friend

AI judge decides who's right

GAME20—003d ago
27Minecraft as one C file that runs inside a PDF, a terminal and a KindleGAME20—006d ago
28Little Fun Games

daily trivia with uncommon-answer scoring

GAME20—007d ago
29ShellSprint

A typing game-ish for Linux and Kubernetes commands

GAME20—007d ago
30Torch

A Minecraft client written in Rust

GAME20—007d ago
31A set of test-cases for CP/M emulatorsGAME20—009d ago
32Trick or Take

Steal candy with friends in a Halloween browser game

GAME10—044d ago
33MouseChase

A place-and-run puzzle game

GAME10—016d ago
34Cb2026, a Rust chess engine that revisits a 2004 world-record projectGAME1———03d ago
35An easy-to-play, hard-to-complete card battlerGAME1+1IPO—003d ago
36I turned mrdoob's Slop New York into a 3D billboard bidding gameGAME1+1IPO—002d ago
37Zoophony

a WebGL MIDI player with an animal orchestra

GAME10—003d ago
38Play Nightmare

the 1991 VHS board game, with a TV and phones

GAME10—003d ago
39Chinese and Western Zodiac CalculatorGAME10—004d ago
40I built a site where you can log books, movies, games and moreGAME10—004d ago
41Cooja-NG

IoT network emulator running real firmware in the browser

GAME10—004d ago
42City Drones GameGAME10—006d ago
43WordClash Daily

A daily crossword game, solo or multiplayer

GAME10—005d ago
44Resigns

Win the game a GM resigned (Daily Chess Game)

GAME10—005d ago
45Gol Duel

3-minute football card duels in the browser, no sign-up

GAME10—005d ago
46Alchemy Puzzle Game I builtGAME10—005d ago
47Shufler

3D gaming harness around your coding harness and dev pipeline

GAME10—005d ago
48OddsLine

Football betting analytics with market-independent model

GAME10—006d ago
49Autobahn game where you listen to a bookGAME10—006d ago
50Chessdox

chess with a friend via a link, no account (C#/.NET)

GAME10—006d ago

Traction = current votes (PH) / points (HN) — early-adopter attention, not downloads or usage. Gained = traction gained between the two latest daily ingest runs; Gain % only when the previous traction was 5+. Buzz = comments gained in that interval. “frozen” = no longer tracked, so no current gain. How it works