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Semicolon Inspector
One missing semicolon. 187,421 lines, taped to the office walls.
terminal · @terminaldotshop
Walk the printout. Click the line. Posted 24 Aug 2026
New
Gold Block
One gold block. Over five million dirt cubes in the way.
Matt · @mattmerrick16
Shovel. WASD. A counter that does not hurry.
New
NYC Hide and Seek
Find your friend among 8.5 million New Yorkers. He texts hints.
Kevin Ngo · @kevin_t_ngo
Three.js · AI texts · posted 25 Aug 2026
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Needle in a Haystack
Find one needle. The hay does not help.
Nas · @NasNakarus
5,000,000 pieces of hay · 1 needle · Steam page forthcoming
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Separate the Wheat from the Chaff
Not a metaphor. Every piece. All of them.
SaturaDev · @saturadev
10,000,000 pieces · sort every single one · Steam page coming
Watching Paint Dry
An existential idle: a wall, a magnifying glass, and Focus.
tintwotin
Day/night cycle · coffee · torch · no rush
Never Sort By Color
First-person brick mountain. Magnet glove. One rule in the title.
Bryan Livingston · @IndieGameJoe
100,000+ generic bricks · Steam planned 10 Nov 2026
The Sorting Bureau
A Tokyo workshop. Boxes of clutter. No timer, no score.
Mariia Skokova, Dmitrii Zaitsev · Apelsinka Games
Launched 21 Aug 2026
Box Corp
Package-inspection factory. Incinerate the wrong ones. Or the right ones, if you must.
builds.games
Physics sorting by size, weight, magnetism
Totally Safe Box Sorting Factory
Jam-built sorting with a habit of exploding.
stephanedurette
Brackeys Game Jam 2025 · 13 levels
Paint Drying Simulator
Pico-8’s first paint-drying simulator. (They think.)
EayKoto
6 hours of gameplay · awards: none yet
A (Not so Boring) Game About Watching Paint Dry
First day on the job. The job is the title.
IgnCloudi
Browser itch · tools you probably do not need
Recyclic
Menial work on a recycling line. The plant does not care how you feel about it.
Shellscrape Games
Steam · Dec 2025
Gazillion Boxes
A demon’s exam: smash 9,999 boxes. Automation is the only mercy.
filgreen3
GMTK Game Jam 2026
Hold The Button
You hold a button. That is the design document.
frustrated.io
Browser endurance
Desert Bus
Eight real hours of Tucson–Vegas. One point if you arrive.
Penn & Teller, 1995 (unreleased compilation).
Classics of the form · ancestors, not this week’s virals. Cited because the new ones are standing on them.
Progress Quest
Eric Fredricksen, 2002. An RPG that plays itself. You may watch.
Eric Fredricksen
Getting Over It
Bennett Foddy, 2017. A hammer, a pot, and the mountain’s opinion of you.
Bennett Foddy
Baby Steps
Gabe Cuzzillo, Maxi Boch, Bennett Foddy. Devolver. Walking, one foot at a time.
Gabe Cuzzillo, Maxi Boch, Bennett Foddy · 23 Sep 2025
Also in the stacks, not the floor: Chaff by vaaraniemi, a small wheat-vs-chaff itch download. Unrelated to SaturaDev’s post.