LAUNCH·INDEX
LNCH1,007+7.6%

Experimental: traction = early-adopter votes (PH) / points (HN), not downloads or usage; updated about once a day and frozen ~31–36h after launch on Product Hunt (7 days on Show HN); sectors come from keyword rules (~70–75% accurate); data starts Oct 3 (HN) / Oct 9 (PH). “—” means not enough data; nothing is estimated. How it works

Games & Entertainment (GAME)

Sector · Show HN + Product Hunt · data as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC

130−9 (−6.5%)

launches · 3D Oct 14–Oct 16 vs Oct 11–Oct 13 (139)

4.2%—

hit rate · Oct 12–Oct 14 settled (6/143) vs Oct 9–Oct 11 (7/122)

— Not significant at current sample size: −1.5pp, z = -0.6 (needs |z| ≥ 2); 7/122 → 6/143.

−3.2

trending score

Launches: Weekday effect likely: Wed–Fri is compared with Sun–Tue, not the same weekdays last week (not enough history yet; expected from about Oct 19). Launch counts and hit rates swing a lot by weekday.

Hit rate: Weekday effect likely: Mon–Wed is compared with Fri–Sun, not the same weekdays last week (not enough history yet; expected from about Oct 21). Launch counts and hit rates swing a lot by weekday.

Launches & hit rate

Supply · launches per day
050100Oct 3: 4 launches (incomplete day)Oct 4: 3 launches (incomplete day)Oct 5: 7 launches (incomplete day)Oct 6: 6 launches (incomplete day)Oct 7: 7 launches (incomplete day)Oct 8: 7 launches (incomplete day)Oct 9: 48 launchesOct 10: 37 launchesOct 11: 37 launchesOct 12: 34 launchesOct 13: 68 launchesOct 14: 41 launchesOct 15: 48 launchesOct 16: 41 launchesOct 17: 47 launches (incomplete day)Oct 3Oct 5Oct 7Oct 9Oct 11Oct 13Oct 15Oct 17
Demand · hit rate per day (share of settled launches with 10+ votes)
0%5%10%Oct 3: incomplete dayOct 4: incomplete dayOct 5: incomplete dayOct 6: incomplete dayOct 7: incomplete dayOct 8: incomplete dayOct 9: 2 of 48 settled launches hit 10+ votes (4.2%)Oct 10: 2 of 37 settled launches hit 10+ votes (5.4%)Oct 11: 3 of 37 settled launches hit 10+ votes (8.1%)Oct 12: 2 of 34 settled launches hit 10+ votes (5.9%)Oct 13: 4 of 68 settled launches hit 10+ votes (5.9%)Oct 14: 0 of 41 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 15: launches not settled yetOct 16: launches not settled yetOct 17: incomplete dayOct 3Oct 5Oct 7Oct 9Oct 11Oct 13Oct 15Oct 17

9 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
41Oct 16
Avg daily launches
44.38d
7D range
34 – 68Oct 10–Oct 16
Hit rate
4.9%13/265 · Oct 9–Oct 14
Volatility
46%7 daily chg
Share of market
3.9%7D
Top source
Product Hunt83%
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139Oct 11–Oct 13

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. 320 matches; top 200 loaded. Spam giveaways excluded.

Mixed sources. Traction is Product Hunt votes (PH) or Show HN points (HN) — not the same unit, and PH has ~7× the launches. So each source is ranked on its own and the two are alternated (PH #1, HN #1, PH #2, HN #2, …); the # column is that combined order. Pick a source above to see one source’s full ranking.

#SectorSrc
1PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssemblyGAMEHN31400.0%05d ago
2Memory Chess

Study a chess position, then rebuild it from memory

GAMEPH120+5▲ +4.3%136h ago
3Wonderhop

A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do

GAMEHN100+41▲ +69.5%223d ago
4Poke Finder

Catch Pokémon while you browse and complete your Pokédex.

GAMEPH70frozen——06d ago
5Brickbrag

A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser

GAMEHN7900.0%04d ago
6NewMinecraftServers

Minecraft server discovery, analytics, & spoof detection.

GAMEPH68frozen——6d ago
7Timur's Chess

A 14th century chess variant with giraffes

GAMEHN2300.0%06d ago
8Brickbrag

A massively multiplayer brick sandbox with real physics

GAMEPH1100.0%036h ago
9hidane

A Firestore emulator without Java, in one Rust binary

GAMEPH10frozen——4d ago
10Agor, multiplayer AI

stop running agents alone

GAMEHN1000.0%04d ago
11CricArcade

Free cricket strategy games built on 8700+ real matches

GAMEPH10frozen——4d ago
12A WebGL hommage to PS1 demo discsGAMEHN700.0%0029h ago
13daïmōnes

Uncensored philosophical AI trained to reason, not to obey

GAMEPH9frozen——4d ago
14I made a hockey web game with Opus 5.5, and Gemini Argon optimized itGAMEHN500.0%03d ago
15A Novel Appetite

A vampire bookshop game — prey only on bad authors

GAMEPH900.0%036h ago
16Factory DS, A Factorio-Like Game for the Nintendo DSGAMEHN500.0%04d ago
17Blood Typing Game

A free game to learn blood types and safe transfusions

GAMEPH9frozen——4d ago
18The LAST DOOR

a tiny game about deciding when to leave

GAMEHN500.0%003d ago
19Naija Farm

A farming game set in Nigeria, free in your browser

GAMEPH8frozen——4d ago
20Two browser games set inside one real Gaussian-splat scanGAMEHN500.0%005d ago
21SnapMind Teams

One place for everything around the game

GAMEPH8frozen——4d ago
22FM-1 synth emulator with a reverse-engineered CPU and WebAssembly JITGAMEHN40—04d ago
23BOOOM

Workout log, AI coach and a game powered by your training

GAMEPH8frozen——4d ago
24Vaguely Right, a Jev-based daily game

submit a clue to hit the target

GAMEHN40—04d ago
25Visualiquid

Free Minecraft & Roblox creator tools

GAMEPH7frozen——04d ago
26Gondwana, a code-first C#/.NET game engine with WebGLGAMEHN40—023h ago
27Legal Arena

AI Lawyer & Judge simulation game

GAMEPH4frozen——2d ago
28A Game of Life sandbox where any pattern is a shareable linkGAMEHN4+4IPO—009h ago
29RowPal

Make ANY rowing machine fun!

GAMEPH4frozen——2d ago
30Parflip

an Android memory game with zero ads and zero tracking

GAMEHN40—003d ago
31Score Book

Offline scorekeeping for your game nights

GAMEPH4frozen——2d ago
32TowerPanic

a family party game on a small FastAPI realtime engine

GAMEHN30—02d ago
33Chesspy

Daily logic puzzle: place chess pieces to hit every number

GAMEPH4frozen——6d ago
34Krashout, multiplayer car soccer in the browserGAMEHN30—06d ago
35A fun little app to play with chaosGAMEHN30—031h ago
36Melodic Strings

Play string textures and layer orchestral ideas online

GAMEPH3+3IPO—112h ago
37Composition

a daily Jezzball-like puzzle that turns into a Mondrian

GAMEHN30—02d ago
38Ayana: Precise Vedic astrology + AI

Vedic astrology, computed precisely and explained with care

GAMEPH3+1—036h ago
39Stuon

Turn studying into a game.

GAMEPH3frozen——3d ago
40Wasmga.me

Homebrew and open-source games running on WebAssembly

GAMEHN30—0028h ago
41CrossZero

Real-time multiplayer tic-tac-toe on massive grids.

GAMEPH3frozen——5d ago
42I made puzzle game IT THINKS

you build a GPU from logic gates

GAMEHN30—0029h ago
43Memory Classic

The classic pairs game, with five ways to play

GAMEPH3frozen——6d ago
44Skyloons pop the Balloons

Android arcade game built with Reactnative

GAMEHN30—004d ago
45Writing a Game in CGAMEHN30—005d ago
46Wordsicle

The daily dice crossword. Same twelve dice for everyone.

GAMEPH2+2IPO—112h ago
47TypetoDefuse, a typing puzzle game where every solved module buys timeGAMEHN20—04d ago
48PLAYUS

Play short games. Earn travel eSIM data.

GAMEPH2+2IPO—112h ago
49Sufuku

Sudoku, but Numbers Repeat

GAMEHN20—029h ago
50Eu Duvido!

Bluffing trivia party game: bid a number or call EU DUVIDO!

GAMEPH2+2IPO—112h 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

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