Games & Entertainment (GAME)
Sector · Show HN · data as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC
launches · 3D Oct 14–Oct 16 vs Oct 7–Oct 9 (same weekday) (20)
hit rate · Oct 12–Oct 14 settled (4/28) vs Oct 5–Oct 7 (0/20)
— Not significant at current sample size: +14.3pp, 20 → 28 settled launches (needs 100+ in each window).
trending score
Launches & hit rate
4 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
- 10Oct 16
- Avg daily launches
- 6.813d
- 7D range
- 4 – 12Oct 10–Oct 16
- Hit rate
- 12.0%6/50 · Oct 8–Oct 14
- Volatility
- 62%12 daily chg
- Share of market
- 5.4%7D
- Top source
- Show HN100%
- Previous window
- 20Oct 7–Oct 9
Stocks in this sector (GAME)
Launched on Oct 16 (the latest complete UTC day) or listed since the previous run (IPO), ranked by current traction. Product Hunt launches all list at 07:01 UTC; their traction has had at most one or two daily updates. 13 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.
| # | Sector | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A WebGL hommage to PS1 demo discs | GAME | 7 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 29h ago |
| 2 | Gondwana, a code-first C#/.NET game engine with WebGL | GAME | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 23h ago | |
| 3 | A Game of Life sandbox where any pattern is a shareable link | GAME | 4 | +4IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 9h ago |
| 4 | A fun little app to play with chaos | GAME | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 31h ago | |
| 5 | Wasmga.me Homebrew and open-source games running on WebAssembly | GAME | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 28h ago |
| 6 | I made puzzle game IT THINKS you build a GPU from logic gates | GAME | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 29h ago |
| 7 | Sufuku Sudoku, but Numbers Repeat | GAME | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 29h ago | |
| 8 | FourCities A multiplayer transport tycoon game in the browser | GAME | 2 | +2IPO | — | 1 | 11h ago | |
| 9 | Parin A 2D game engine between raylib and Godot, written in Dlang | GAME | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 29h ago | |
| 10 | OutClocked, a nearly impossible daily trivia game | GAME | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 30h ago | |
| 11 | A "falling block puzzle game" | GAME | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 25h ago | |
| 12 | Animated step-by-step hints for any cryptic crossword clue | GAME | 1 | +1IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 6h ago |
| 13 | Family Internet Speed Game | GAME | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 26h 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