Today’s find · Sunday, August 23, 2026
A browser grand-strategy game that draws its whole look from Đông Hồ woodblock prints — a Vietnamese folk-art tradition that basically never shows up in games. It's bilingual (English and Tiếng Việt), free and ad-free, and sitting at zero stars on GitHub Pages. Whether the strategy layer is deep is an open question; the art direction alone is a bet nobody else is making.
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Quick pickEarth ReGen — A factory-building incremental with a clean menu and a visible 10-stage run structure — the clearest lose-an-evening loop among today's five.
Passed over a wave of SEO-bait repos with 'Best 2026' keyword-stuffed titles, several look-what-my-AI-built showcases, and the usual Tetris, Pac-Man and Wordle clones.