Notes from the sweep
The sweep behind Nobody Clicked looks at a few hundred games a week and prints five. This is a short weekly column about the rest of it — the clone waves, the things that aren’t games at all, and what the slush says about where browser games come from. It goes out with the Saturday email and is archived here.
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The week to September 5, 2026
The slush has a new resident: repos titled like search results, 'Best 2026 Game Guide' and its cousins, no game and no guide inside, present in every sweep this week. They sit beside the older tenants, the tutorial…
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The week to August 22, 2026
The slush this week had a new tell: repos titled like search results. "Best 2026 Browser RPG," "Best New PSX Horror Walking Sim Games Like Vacancy 2026," "Idle AI Empire 2026: 924-Test Devlog Suite" — READMEs written…
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The week to August 15, 2026
Six days of sweeps and the same shelf keeps restocking itself: Minecraft clones, Sudoku, Puzzle Bobble, rock-paper-scissors, another Pokémon tower defense. Clones are expected — the odd part is the non-games filing…
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The week to August 8, 2026
Pac-Man turned up in five of this week's seven sweeps, and DOS Gorillas in three, which suggests the tutorial pipeline is still running on a syllabus written before most of its students were born. Nothing made after…
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The week to August 1, 2026
The slush had a theme this week, and the theme was Minecraft: at least ten rebuilds crossed the sweep, sometimes three in a single day, each apparently unaware of the others. Behind them stood the usual starter shelf —…
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The week to July 30, 2026
The slush ran to form this week. Every sweep turned up at least one Minecraft clone — three in a single morning — alongside the standing rotation of Tetris, snake, Flappy Bird, rock-paper-scissors, and memory-match…