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Splatbarn

Playable now 3D voxel shooter · up to 16 players · browser, phone or desktop

What it is

A first-person shooter that runs in a browser tab with no download, no installer and no account. You are a cow, a chicken, a pig or a sheep, on a snow map, in one of four modes: capture the flag, team deathmatch, king of the hill, and a one-flag variant. Matches are up to sixteen players and bots fill any seat nobody takes. Movement has deliberate ice-drift to it, so you slide when you stop.

The multiplayer is peer-to-peer over WebRTC. There is no game server anywhere: you send somebody a link and the two browsers talk to each other. That is the reason it works on a locked-down work laptop, and it is also the reason there is no matchmaking, no ranked ladder and no persistent profile.

What works

• The first thirty seconds. Click a link, pick an animal, and you are playing. No launcher, no patch, no sign-in. That is a genuinely uncommon experience in 2026 and it is the best thing about the game.
• It runs on a phone. Touch controls, and the same link works from a desktop or a handset in the same match.
• The bots are real opponents. They path, they take cover, they contest the hill and they keep out of each other's way. You will mostly be playing against them, which is the honest situation for a game this new, and it is not a wasted evening.

What is wrong with it

• Firefox and Safari are fixed but unverified. A single line of syntax made the mouse fail to capture in every version of Firefox ever released, and in Safari older than 18.4. It was found and fixed, and the fix is covered by tests that run the exact production expression against each browser's contract — but the only browser available on the machine this is built on is Chromium, so nobody has opened a real Firefox and played a round. That is a weaker claim than it sounds and we would rather say so.
• You will usually be alone. There is no player base to speak of and no lobby browser. If you turn up without a friend and a link, you are playing against bots. That is a real limitation of the game as it exists, not a phase we are describing optimistically.
• Peer-to-peer is not free of network trouble. Some networks will not let two browsers connect directly. There are relays behind it and a failed join now says so out loud rather than hanging, which is an improvement on where it was, but "no server" does mean the connection is more exposed to your network than a normal game's would be.
• Nothing persists off this browser. Without an account the leaderboard is your own browser's record. Clear your site data and it is gone.

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Hoofrise

Playable now Ten-minute strategy · published 2026-09-06 · not yet assessed

We have not written this one up yet. The game is published and playable against a bot; what is missing is our own assessment of it, of the same kind as the ones above — what works, and what is still wrong with it.

Two things we already know are worth saying, because a review that appears later and mentions them for the first time would be a review that waited to be safe. It is single-player only for now: the game is built for four and the network layer is not written, so today it is you against one opponent. And the two sides are not yet equally hard to play well — they are within a few points of each other in several hundred simulated matches, which is not the same as being even in your hands.

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Evil Hills

Playable now PS1-era survival horror · published 2026-08-31 · not yet assessed

We have not written this one up yet. The game is published and playable; what is missing is our own assessment of it, of the same kind as the ones above — what works, and what is still wrong with it.

Rather than leave a gap, or fill it with something written from the design documents by somebody who has not played it, it says so here. The same rule applies to us as to the empty shelf at the top of this page.

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Kartzoom

Playable now 3D kart racer · six circuits in two cups · browser, phone or desktop

What it is

The Splatbarn farm, in karts. Six circuits in two cups — Sunflower Circuit, Muddy Bottom and Frostfield Loop on the farm, then Harvest Millrace, Saltmarsh Run and Copperhead Canyon past the fence — with eight-kart grids, drift boosts you charge by holding a slide through a corner, and items including a cowpat and a runaway tractor. Each circuit has a cliff drop where the kart deploys a wing and glides. You race friends by sending a link, peer-to-peer with no server, and bots take any seat nobody claimed. Three difficulty settings, from Sunday Drivers to Stampede.

What works

• The drift. The nose of the kart and its direction of travel are allowed to disagree, which is the whole feel of the genre, and charging a mini-turbo out of a long bend does what you want it to.
• The bots argue with each other. Each has a fixed personal appetite for a gamble, so the field genuinely splits at a shortcut mouth rather than filing through in a line. That took some fixing and it reads correctly now.
• The circuits have real elevation. Not decoration: you drive a rim and a chasm floor thirty metres below it in the same lap.

What is wrong with it

• It moves weekly. The original three circuits were re-authored wider and faster on 29 August 2026 and every lap time changed by seconds; three more circuits and four more drivers have landed since. If you played it a fortnight ago you have not played the current game, and if you play it in a fortnight the same may be true again.
• One circuit went backwards in that pass. Grading embankments onto the raised roads left Muddy Bottom with measurably more time spent off the tarmac than before, not less. It is a known regression, it is written down as one, and it is not fixed.
• The progression is thin, and deliberately so. There are two cups and the second unlocks by winning the first, which is the whole of it. You pick a circuit and you race it; there is no season, no championship and no garage to fill.
• It has had far less play than it needs. Splatbarn has been shaken out by real matches; this has mostly been measured by a test harness driving it. Measurement is not the same as play, and we expect the difference to show.

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Letterloft

Playable now Fifteen by fifteen · published 2026-09-04 · not yet assessed

We have not written this one up yet either. It is playable, and it shares its type, contrast and shape-as-well-as-colour rules with Wordburrow below, which is assessed in full — but that is a description of the intent, not a verdict on the result, and this page only carries verdicts somebody has earned by playing.

It has, however, now been played on camera: Amelia opens with JOWED for 48, does not know what it means, and spends the rest of the game being beaten by nobody in particular. Watch that → That is a recording, not a verdict, and this page still owes you one.

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Wordburrow

Playable now Four word games · 223 puzzles · drawn, not typed into a form

What it is

Guesswise, Combword, Groupseek and Gridseek on one page, with a farm flavour and no clock anywhere. 227 Guesswise words, fifty-three Combword hives, ninety Groupseek sets and ninety-six Gridseek grids, all reachable from a dropdown rather than doled out one a day. The look is a printed almanac — cream paper, heavy ink outlines, five flat colours — and it was specified in writing before any of it was built, because the audience it is for is one that most puzzle games design past rather than for.

What works

• You draw the words. Press and drag across the letters in Strands and a ribbon follows your hand; drag across the hive in Combword to spell; sweep four words in Connections in one gesture. And you can type at any moment without clicking into anything first, including at the menu.
• It is genuinely readable. Nothing is under 18 pixels, nothing pressable is under 48 by 48, and text clears AAA contrast rather than AA. That is a different game to play in poor light than the ones it is modelled on.
• No state is signalled by colour alone. Every tile carries a shape in its corner and a spoken label as well as a fill, so a green-gold-grey row still reads if you cannot separate those hues.
• The Strands grids are properly tiled. Every one of the 48 cells belongs to exactly one theme word, which is what lets you finish the last word by elimination. They were packed by a program and each is checked by the same validator the deploy gate runs.
• Nothing is locked. There is a puzzle of the day, and there is also a list of all 223.

What is wrong with it

• The Guesswise guess list is common words, not a full dictionary. About seventeen hundred five-letter words. A real word you type can be refused, and the message says so plainly rather than pretending otherwise — but it is still a refusal, and it will happen to somebody.
• The Combword only accepts the words on its own list. Each hive carries an authored answer list, so a legitimate word the setter did not think of is not accepted. That is a deliberate trade — the alternative is a shared dictionary that is wrong in a more confusing way — but it is a limit, not a feature.
• A sweep in Connections picks up everything it crosses. That is how the gesture works and it is honest about it — four words scattered across the grid cannot be swept without touching the ones in between, so for those you still click. It is not obvious until it happens to you.
• The puzzles are ours, and they are a first set. The Connections sets in particular are the part most likely to have a group somebody can argue with. If you find one, that is a defect and we would like to hear about it.
• The sound is very quiet by design. It is pitched to sit under a conversation rather than to fill a room, which is right for a puzzle you do with the television on and will read as thin if you were expecting a game.
• It shipped with no sound at all on iPhone, for a week. Web audio on iOS has three separate traps and we had solved one of them. It works now, and with your phone on silent it will still make noise — which is what a game does, and is worth knowing before you open it in a waiting room.

All four are played end to end in Amelia's first word-game episode, if you would rather watch somebody lose to them than read about them.

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Rookwise

Playable now Complete chess · bot or a shared link · no clock anywhere

What it is

Chess in a browser tab, played by the full rules rather than a subset of them: castling both sides, en passant, promotion to any piece, and the draws that are not stalemate. The board is cream and brown with the ranks and files printed on it, the pieces are drawn large enough to read across a room, and there is no clock on the move, on the game, or anywhere near the edge of the screen. You play a bot or you send somebody a link.

What works

• It tells you what is happening in words. Under the board it says “You to move.” That sounds like nothing until you have used a chess site that signals the same thing with a coloured border and expects you to know.
• Take a move back is right there. Not buried, not a premium feature, not disabled against the computer. For the audience this is built for, an undo is the difference between a game and a test.
• The board is labelled. Ranks 1–8 and files a–h are on the board itself, so a beginner reading a book or following along with somebody can find the square being named.
• The move list is plain and always visible, beside the board rather than hidden behind a tab.
• Nothing counts down. This is the whole pitch and it holds up: you can walk away mid-move.

What is wrong with it

• The two armies are told apart by fill, not by shape. Every piece is drawn in the same outline style and the sides differ by whether that outline is filled. On the light squares this is obvious; on the dark squares it is doing less work than it should, which is a shame in a game that has otherwise thought hard about being readable.
• The right-hand panel is mostly empty at the start — two player rows and a blank move list — so the first screen gives over a third of its width to nothing much.
• “Play a bot” does not say which bot. The claim is that it plays at your level, and there is no visible setting, no indication of what it has decided, and no way to ask for something harder or easier if it has judged you wrong.
• There is no notation export. The moves are listed but there is no PGN to copy, so a game you would like to keep or show somebody lives only in that tab.

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Jumpwise

Playable now English draughts · takes compulsory · bot or a shared link

What it is

English draughts, twelve sheep against twelve cows. Captures are compulsory, a jump that sets up another jump keeps going in the same turn, and a piece that reaches the far rank is crowned. Undo is on the screen, the move count is on the screen, and there is no clock.

What works

• The two sides are actual different animals. Filled cow faces against outlined sheep faces — a shape difference, not a colour difference, which is the thing most draughts boards get wrong. It reads on a phone in sunlight and it reads if you cannot separate the two hues.
• The dark squares are hatched rather than filled. The board carries texture as well as tone, which is a small decision that does a lot in poor light.
• The count is at the top and the turn is in a sentence. “Sheep: 12 · Cows: 12” with a marker on whose turn it is, and “Your move, playing the sheep” underneath the board.
• Compulsory takes are enforced, which is the rule that makes draughts a game about laying traps instead of a game about shuffling.

What is wrong with it

• The board is small for the window it sits in. On a desktop it occupies about a third of the width with a lot of cream either side, which is an odd result for a game whose whole argument is that things should be big.
• “Play a bot” sits under the board, below the fold on a short window, next to Undo and the move count — so the first thing a new player looks for is the last thing they find.
• The bot has no visible strength setting, the same gap as in Rookwise: it adjusts to you, and it does not tell you what it has concluded or let you argue.
• Nothing explains that takes are compulsory until you try to make a different move. The rule is correct and it is the interesting one; a first-time player deserves to be told rather than corrected.

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Pawnrush

Playable now Four teams · against the computer or over a link · no clock

What it is

Ludo, with four teams named for farm animals: Sheep, Geese, Pigs and Cows. A six to bring a piece out, capture by landing on a single opponent, and an exact roll to come home. Play alone with the computer taking the other three seats, or share a link and let people claim them.

What works

• Every team has its own shape as well as its own colour — a circle, a triangle, a square and a diamond. Four coloured discs is the standard and it is the standard that fails in bright light and for anyone with a colour vision deficiency. This one does not.
• The track carries arrows. The direction of travel is drawn on the board rather than left to be remembered, which matters in Ludo more than in most games because the path turns a corner you cannot see.
• Safe squares are marked with a star, so the one rule people argue about at a real table is settled on the board.
• The roll button is enormous and the state is a sentence: “Sheep to roll (You).” The side panel keeps a running “0 of 4 home” for every team, so you can see the shape of the game without counting pieces.

What is wrong with it

• The pieces are much smaller than the yards they sit in. The four home boxes are large and mostly empty, while the track squares — the part you actually play on — are small. On a phone the track is the tightest thing on the screen, and it is the thing you have to tap.
• The board is dense at a glance. Arrows, stars and team colours all compete on squares that are already small, so the first look is busier than the game is.
• It is still Ludo. The exact roll to finish means a game can end with somebody rolling for a three several turns running, and no interface decision fixes that. Worth knowing rather than being disappointed by.
• Nothing explains the rules on the page. There is a “?” button, and the assumption otherwise is that you already know Ludo — reasonable for most people, and not for the person being taught.

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Sweepwise

Playable now Minesweeper · Beginner to Expert, or custom · best times

What it is

Classic Minesweeper. Beginner is 9 by 9 with 10 mines, Intermediate 16 by 16 with 40, Expert 16 by 30 with 99, and Custom takes any board from 5 to 30 squares a side. Open squares, read the numbers, flag the mines, and clear every safe square to win.

What works

• The first click always opens an area. The mines are laid after it, never on that square or the eight around it, so a game never starts with a lone number and a guess.
• Chording is in. Click a number whose flags are all placed and the rest of its neighbours open at once — the move that makes Expert playable at speed.
• The board is real buttons, not a picture. It stays sharp at any zoom, the keyboard works (arrows, Enter, F), and a screen reader hears each square’s row, column and number.
• Expert turns upright on a phone, so the squares stay big enough to tap instead of shrinking to a strip.

What is wrong with it

• Boards can still need a guess later on. Only the first click is protected; like the original, a board can reach a fifty-fifty that no logic resolves.
• Expert on a phone scrolls. Thirty rows of tappable squares are taller than most phone screens.
• Best times live on one device. There is no account, so a record set on a laptop is not on your phone.

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Gomowise

Playable now Gomoku · five in a row · vs computer or a friend

What it is

Gomoku on a 15 by 15 board: two players take turns placing stones, and the first to get five in a row across, down or diagonally wins. Play the computer at three levels, a friend on the same device, or a friend anywhere from a link or a six-letter code.

What works

• Three house rules, not one. Freestyle, the Korean omok rules (exactly five, no double-three) and the Vietnamese caro rules (a five blocked at both ends does not count). Korean and Vietnamese pages start on their own rules.
• The levels are real steps. Measured over bot-against-bot games, Hard beats Medium nine games in ten and Medium beats Easy every time, under all three rule sets.
• A friend room needs no account. Send a link or read out a code; the rematch button swaps colours so Black, who moves first, alternates.
• A phone tap is confirmed. The first tap shows the stone, the second places it, so a finger that lands one line off never costs a game.

What is wrong with it

• Hard is not a master. It looks three moves ahead; a strong player who builds a four-three a few moves early will beat it.
• No public lobby yet. A friend room is private: there is no list of open games to join with strangers.
• No renju. The tournament rules that restrict only Black are not offered.

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Relaywise

Playable now Word chain · eight languages · vs computer or a friend

What it is

Word chain: each word must start where the last one ended, no word may be played twice, and the player who runs out of time loses. Play the computer at three levels, a friend on the same device, or a friend anywhere from a link or a six-letter code.

What works

• Each language plays its own way. Vietnamese links on the last syllable with its tone, Japanese shiritori on the kana reading (a word ending in ん loses), Korean applies the initial-sound rule, Indonesian links on the last two letters.
• Real dictionaries. Built from Wiktionary, between 16,000 and 70,000 words a language, and a refused word is just refused: you try another while the clock runs.
• A computer with three temperaments. Easy knows common words and runs dry; Hard picks words that leave you the fewest answers. Measured over bot-against-bot games, Hard beats Easy every time and Medium in most games in every language.
• A friend room needs no account. The host picks the language and the timer; the host's clock decides, so a slow connection cannot steal a turn.

What is wrong with it

• Wiktionary is not every word. Some everyday words and most names are missing, and the English list stops at the 70,000 best-documented nouns.
• Hard can feel unfair. Late in a game it plays words nothing can follow - which is how the game is played, but not how a friend plays it.
• No public lobby yet. A friend room is private: there is no list of open games to join with strangers.

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Trucowise

Playable now Card game · 1 vs 1 or 2 vs 2 · vs computer or friends

What it is

Argentine truco with the 40-card Spanish deck: three cards each, best of three bazas, envido before the first card and truco whenever you dare. Play the computer at three levels, 2 vs 2 with a computer partner, or friends in a room from a link or a six-letter code.

What works

• The whole rulebook. Envido, real envido and falta envido in any legal order, the envido that comes first, truco to vale cuatro, going al mazo, games to 15 or 30 with malas and buenas, and flor when you switch it on.
• A computer that bluffs. It weighs its envido and its hand against the cards it has not seen, and sometimes calls truco on nothing. Hard also reads what your calls say. Measured over 200 computer-against-computer games, Hard beat Easy 145 times and Medium 125 times.
• Nobody can peek. In a friend room the host deals and each player receives only their own cards; the other hands never travel to your screen.
• A score you can read at a glance. Points are drawn the way they are on a table, in squares of five strokes.

What is wrong with it

• No signals. Real 2 vs 2 truco is played with secret signs to your partner; the computer partner plays well but does not wink.
• One reglamento. Truco rules change from table to table; this is the common Argentine set, and the Brazilian truco paulista with its other deck is not here.
• A room ends with its host. The hidden cards live on the host's screen, so if the host leaves, the room deals a new game.

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Buracowise

Playable now Card game · 1 vs 1 or 2 vs 2 · vs computer or friends

What it is

Brazilian buraco, the card game, with two French decks and four jokers: eleven cards each, two mortos waiting face down, sequences of one suit laid on the table and canastras of seven or more. Play the computer at three levels, 2 vs 2 with a computer partner, or friends in a room from a link or a six-letter code.

What works

• The rules Brazilian card sites use. Draw or take the whole discard pile, one wild card per sequence, the 2 that is natural in its own place, morto taken at once or with the discard, the batida only with the morto and a clean canastra, and canastras of 500 and 1000.
• Building a sequence on a phone. Tap cards to select them, tap Lay down, or tap one of your sequences to add them; the hand sorts itself by suit or by rank.
• A computer that plays the table. It weighs the discard pile before taking it, keeps its wild cards for canastras and will not hand you a card that fits your sequences. Measured over 200 computer-against-computer games to 3000, Hard beat Easy every time and beat Medium three games in four.
• Nobody can peek. In a friend room the host deals; the other hands, both mortos and the stock never travel to your screen.

What is wrong with it

• One house rule set. Buraco changes from table to table; sets of three of a kind (trincas) are not allowed here, as on the big Brazilian sites.
• Easy is very easy. It forgets to lay cards down and throws useful cards; Medium is the fair game.
• A room ends with its host. The hidden cards live on the host's screen, so if the host leaves, the room deals a new game.

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Zelakas In Space

Playable now 2D arcade shooter · single player · keyboard, desktop

What it is

A 2D arcade shooter made in 2014 in ActionScript 3, with Gonzalo and Christian. You dodge asteroids, blackholes and drones, and there are three endings depending on how much of the level you clear. The original Flash build is playable today in a modern browser through Ruffle, an emulator that runs the original file rather than a port of it.

What works

• It is the actual 2014 game. Not a remake, not a reconstruction from memory — the file that shipped, running. That is the interesting thing about it.
• Three endings is a real structure for a game this size, and it gives a reason to go back once.

What is wrong with it

• It plays like a student game from 2014, because it is one. We are fond of it. That is not the same as recommending it on its merits against anything made this decade.
• It runs on an emulator, so it is exactly as accurate as that emulator is. Anything that looks off may be the emulation rather than the game, and we cannot always tell which.
• Keyboard only. It does not work on a phone, and there is no touch layer planned for the original build.
• The original file is large, so the first load is slower than everything else on this site.

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2D Fighter EX

Playable now Animation experiment · not a game

What it is

An animation whose project file was lost and which was recovered frame by frame from a screen recording: 84 frames of timing, a camera that pushes in to twice its size, and where each fighter stood. That timing is now replayed with 1990s cel-anime characters, on a forest stage generated from a seed. You can scrub it, slow it down, and reseed the stage.

What works

• The recovery itself, which is the point. The timing of the original exchange survives, taken back out of a video after the source was gone.
• Being able to slow it down is the right control to give somebody, because the interest is entirely in the frame timing.

What is wrong with it

• It is not a game and should not be called one. You do not control a fighter, you cannot win and there is no opponent. It is on the site because it is interesting, not because it is playable in the sense the other three are.
• It will disappoint anybody who arrives expecting a fighting game. The name does not help. EX is short for experiment.

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Moon Life

Playable now Cozy life game · phone browsers first · orchards, jam and a cat landlord

What it is

A farm on a moon you can walk all the way around in about a minute. The horizon curves away in front of you, which is the first thing anybody notices and the reason the place feels small in a good way. You pick fruit off the trees, press it into juice and jam, put it on a shelf, and neighbours walk up and buy it. You spend what you make buying parcels of ground from Felice, a round orange cat in a waistcoat and hat who owns the entire moon and is perfectly pleasant about it. Everything in it — every tree, every cottage, every villager, the cat — is generated in code rather than drawn by hand, and none of it looks like it.

Past the farm there is more of it than you would expect. There are four tools that pick themselves depending on what you are standing in front of, a town with two shops and a town hall staffed by villagers who keep hours, fifty-eight things you can craft and put down anywhere you like, six other planets a double tap of the jump button away, and a six-character code you can read out so a friend walks onto your moon and helps you pick the orchard.

What works

• The curve. A tiny world done as a ball you walk over, with the trees leaning away at the edges. It carries the whole game's charm and it costs the player nothing to understand.
• It does not wait for you. Trees grow, jam finishes and chests refill on timestamps, so a moon left overnight has got on with things, and coming back is a small report rather than a punishment.
• The tools choose themselves. Stand at a rock and the button says Mine; stand at a thirsty tree and it says Water. The four-tool bar is there if you want to overrule it and hides itself when there is nothing to do, which is the right way round.
• Everybody has a name. Felice the cat, Beatrice, Giulia, Pietro, Lorenzo, Peppino — you are never told you are talking to “Villager”, and the difference that makes to a cozy game is out of all proportion to the work.
• Visiting is properly done. A knock has to be answered by the host; a guest can help gather but cannot fell, build, plant or spend a coin of yours. It is the version of multiplayer you can actually let a stranger into.
• The other planets are worth the trip. They are not scenery: you fell their trees, break their boulders and can leave a bench behind. A world of nothing but pines is a lumber yard, and the flight there is four and a half seconds of somersault that never stopped being nice.

What is wrong with it

• Nobody has played it on a phone, and it was built phone-first. Every check on it so far has been a desktop browser or an automated one. That is the biggest hole in this review and we would rather say so than imply a test that has not happened.
• The five villager houses read as one cottage recoloured. They are generated from the same kit with different palettes, and up close you can tell. A village should not look like a catalogue.
• A forest of pines reads as a forest of sticks. One pine on the home moon is fine; a whole planet of them, seen from a camera pitched steeply down, foreshortens the crowns and leaves the bare top of each trunk showing. It is correct botany and bad composition.
• The economy is balanced for the farm and not for the flights. The numbers behind money, prices and growth are checked against a simulated player who never leaves the home moon — so timber, wild foraging and the treasure in the chests are priced by judgement rather than by measurement.
• Villagers walk through the furniture. Put a bench in the middle of the square and they will stroll straight through it. Only the player is stopped by what the player put down.
• A crafted lamp does not light anything. It glows, which is most of the way there, but the night lighting is decided when the moon loads and a lamp you place afterwards is not part of it.
• The public side is not switched on yet. Visiting works by code, and by code only: there is no browsable list of open moons and no global leaderboard, because both need a piece of plumbing that arrives with the site rather than with the game. The game says so plainly rather than showing an empty list.
• A picked mushroom patch reads as a flat green disc at the distance you actually stand at.

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Silk & Seam

Playable now Cosy dressmaking game · published 2026-09-25 · not yet assessed

We have not written this one up yet. The game is published and the whole loop plays — a commission, a sketch, cutting, sewing, embellishing and the reveal — but it is days old, and an assessment written the week it shipped would be a first impression rather than a review.

What we already know is missing: there is no tutorial yet, so the first commission is learned by trying things; the parts and fabrics do not yet show which client tastes they suit until you pick them; and the sketch book cannot be driven from the keyboard.

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Dachis

Playable now 2.5D monster-friend RPG · published 2026-09-30 · not yet assessed

We have not written this one up yet. The first chapter plays — the opening cutscene, the volcano village, the guardian fight, the three starters, real-time wild battles with parries and attributes, and the capture ritual — but it went up today, and a review written on day one would be a first impression.

What we already know is missing: only the first chapter is built, so the ice, the deep sea, the caves and the sky level the story promises are not there yet; the bosses exist as models but have no fights; timing a parry by touch is harder than with a key; and the first seconds after loading can stutter on an older phone while the graphics compile.

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