The class of
July 2026
11 daily picks, 56 games surfaced — none of them on a storefront, most at zero stars when we found them.
The daily picks
July 28, 2026
dolmus
An isometric idle tycoon about running a dolmus terminal in Istanbul, and the economy is the interesting…
2★ · found on GitHub Pages
July 27, 2026
periplus
A jam entry that turns cartography into the actual verb: the moon you're walking is drawn only as contour…
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
July 26, 2026
mon captcha
A CAPTCHA you play: instead of clicking traffic lights, you walk a procedurally generated voxel world in…
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
July 25, 2026
yorimichi
A Japanese convenience-store visit as a game: pick the hour and the season, wander the aisles of a konbini…
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
July 24, 2026
say hello to a black hole
A browser-rendered black hole you feed with your voice: microphone input drives the accretion disk while real…
1★ · found on Vercel
July 23, 2026
gurpil
A racer where the wheel itself is your answer to the track: you draw its shape mid-race and the physics…
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
July 22, 2026
township
A pixel town where AI residents deliberate actual civic questions — and the whole thing is framed as a…
4★ · found on GitHub Pages
July 21, 2026
drone opticone
An in-browser RTS where the unit roster is real-world drone spec sheets — consumer DJI quadcopters, FPV…
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
July 20, 2026
lowge
One person building a noir, 1930s–40s GTA-like from scratch in vanilla JS: procedural period vehicles, a live…
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
July 19, 2026
Chroma Flow
A real-time GPU fluid simulation you paint with your cursor — drag to push dye through swirling vorticity, or…
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
July 18, 2026
broker tycoon
A single-file tycoon where the resource you optimize is other people's personal data — you grow a brokerage…
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
Also surfaced this month
- the torchbearerA dungeon crawler that ships nothing but code: lighting, dungeon layout, every sound effect and the whole soundtrack are synthesized at runtime, and it claims to run straight off a file:// path with no server and no network.
- maze gameAn ASCII maze-chase that renders into a single <pre> tag; no canvas, no game library, just a deterministic TypeScript engine pushing text around.
- elysiumA planetary colonization sim in dependency-free HTML/JS, with 20 survivors, 106 resources and 73 events, which is an unusual amount of systems for a zero-star hobby build; Portuguese and English.
- deus ex machinaA puzzle-platformer where you never move the robot directly, you draw arrows into the level and it follows them.
- driftlingsA 2.5D Lemmings-like whose levels are generated backwards from a known solution and then verified by a solver — the generator can't ship an impossible board.
- ChromaFirst-person paint-by-numbers built as a shooter: same aiming and trigger discipline, but the target is a color region, and there are no assets in it at all.
- terratouchMobile-first terraforming clicker where the run ending is the point — when your world collapses, the game writes it an obituary.
- five nights at lastochkaThree.js horror set in an abandoned Soviet summer camp, with a night-survival rule system; the repo and in-game text are Russian, English summary only.
- cold storageFirst-person office stealth with one very specific objective — steal the intern's lunch — instead of another generic corridor shooter.
- AUTODELVE (v0.0.1)A first-person dungeon crawler that plays itself, drawn like a 1994 DOS RPG; you send the adventurer down and watch what happens.
- Maze v2A canvas maze built on seeded determinism — same seed, same run — with fog, patrolling Wardens, and Echoes to chase.
- ThoughtlessA Kingdom-style side-scroller about pulling animals out of a spreading 'mindrot', sitting at zero stars on a bare Vercel URL.
- XIVA browser FPS staged as cel-shaded comic-book vignettes, in French, with zero binary assets — the panel-by-panel framing is the experiment.
- lowgeA noir GTA-like engine in vanilla JS with procedural 1930s vehicles and a live retro-film shader — over-ambitious solo engineering in the best way.
- santa slayer 3dA Quake-style arena shooter remaking the developer's own high-school Java game, with every model, texture, and sound generated in code.
- defeneheroA Korean-language 3D defense game for kids where solving math problems is the upgrade currency, with all graphics and sound generated from code.
- Count DawnA jam prototype that inverts the horde-survival formula: you're the vampire, the horde is hunters, and sunrise is the clock.
- 47 the mergeAn absurdist single-file game where democracy requires you to be 47 people — court strangers, merge minds, survive the paperwork.
- Cog and CosmosAn interconnected pixel-art incremental where eight separate worlds all feed one brass Fortune Engine — structure, not just number-go-up.
- country fighterPick two of 194 countries and watch their glossy flag-marbles slug it out in a bouncy 3D arena; a toy, but a cheerfully odd one.
- living superweaponA zero-star Three.js superhero sandbox with a data-driven power engine — hose-style beams, ragdoll knockouts, and a destructible arena — that's far more ambitious than its unlisted Vercel URL suggests.
- wobble stackA one-thumb physics toy about keeping five creatures balanced while the wind worsens; tiny scope, but the escalating-instability idea is clean.
- EmberQuestAn EverQuest-flavored idle RPG crammed into a single HTML file — the constraint is the hook, and it's exactly the kind of thing no storefront would ever surface.
- Caselake"Tactical inventory fishing" is a real genre mash — Resident Evil grid-Tetris meets angling — and the weirdest pitch on itch's new list today.
- MOKSHAAn HTML5 game built on Sanatan Shastras and karmic philosophy — thin on mechanical detail, but a source text almost no game touches.
- Cube2 SauerbratenThe full Cube 2: Sauerbraten engine — client, server, ENet and all — compiled to WebAssembly, so a 2004 arena FPS with bot matches and relayed multiplayer now boots from a Cloudflare Pages URL at zero stars.
- smash rally3D badminton in Three.js with vs-AI and online 1v1 over WebSockets — someone built real netcode for a sports game and parked it on Fly where no one has found it.
- petbattleIn Japanese: a 'meaning-driven' 3D battler that turns any phrase you type into a creature that can fight — a semantic-battle experiment worth poking at even through the language barrier.
- neon mayhemA solo GTA homage in vanilla Three.js — open-world neon city, 1986, car theft and police chases, no engine, no framework, zero stars.
- rogue seasAn age-of-sail combat roguelike that grafts FTL-style crew management onto a warship — a mashup that makes immediate sense.
- scars of ashA creature-collector where death isn't a reset: your monsters drop souls and carry permanent scars when they faint.
- browser shooterA self-described '100% vibecoded' browser FPS whose best idea is a planetary mode fought on real OpenStreetMap terrain.
- JS.Hakoniwa IslandAn in-browser homage to Hakoniwa Shoto, the classic Japanese island-development sim — in Japanese, with autosave.
- star breakerA space-mining roguelite with zero asset files — every texture and sound is generated in code.
- awestruckA deckbuilder where the cards are words and the synergies are wordplay — a neat twist on the Balatro-shaped genre.
- CyberWitchesAn idle game about compiling fading magic into hexadecimal code — rare case of an incremental whose theme maps onto its mechanics.
- WDL MASTER TAGGER VERSION METROA first-person metro-graffiti simulator made for actual graffiti writers, in Spanish — a subculture sim no marketplace would ever surface.
- Heart of Africa RemakeA 3D web remake of the 1985 exploration classic on real ~1890 African geography, with a period journal read aloud by in-browser TTS — ambitious even at a proof-of-concept URL.
- BlueprintAn incremental framed as an engineering worksheet: build a factory one machine at a time and prestige upward through Schematics, Patents, and Legacy Marks.
- scp survivorA top-down survivors-like whose every graphic and sound effect is generated in code — zero art assets, Phaser 3, and the writeup is in Chinese.
- mingjuan legal lifeA Chinese-language 'reborn as a lawyer' life-simulator rendered on a Three.js 3D life-board — an odd, earnest experiment in playable autobiography.
- String BladeGuitar-chord combat that listens through your microphone (or MIDI) and turns real chords into attacks — genuinely novel input, though you'll need an actual guitar to play it.
- SagiJankenA rock-paper-scissors game rigged so you literally cannot win — a Japanese-language gag about a 'fraud-equipped' opponent, ported from a 2008 Visual C++ original.
- benthicAn incremental game whose progress bar is depth: you descend instead of accumulate, in plain HTML/JS with procedural WebAudio.
- pixelfrontAn r/place-style real-time pixel war fought over a map of Turkey's provinces, with factions, war zones and timelapses — Turkish-language browser multiplayer.