Today’s find · Thursday, September 10, 2026
A whole civilization simulator rendered in ASCII and shipped as a single HTML file — settlements rise, wars happen, and the world keeps a written chronicle of what it did. The interesting bet is that the history is the output: you're not steering a nation so much as watching one accumulate a past worth reading. Zero stars, zero assets, no build step.
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A cultivation incremental built around reincarnation: each life is deliberately slow, but…
Browser rewrite of Graphwar's artillery duel, where you aim by typing a mathematical function…
A js13k time-manipulation arena survivor squeezed into 13 KB, with flocking enemies and…
A downhill run where the snowflakes and the slope itself are generated in code — the dev's…
Quick pickCycle of the First Dawn — The screenshot shows a finished, dense cultivation incremental — lifetimes, work ranks, a chronicle, time controls up to 50× — which is the kind of thing you open for five minutes and lose an evening
Passed over a wave of SEO-titled 'Best 2026 Game' GitHub Pages templates, the usual snake/memory-match/flag-quiz exercises, and several links that are articles or tools rather than something you can play.