Rainroam
A voxel roguelike with a cat and a frog | Alpha v0.1
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Rainroam is a free browser roguelike in early alpha v0.1. Play a cat knight or frog mage, explore five biomes and collect relics. Expect bugs, rough balance and unfinished features. No signup or download. Requires WebGPU.
PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: browser-based video games · 380 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -28% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Web App
- Indie Games
- Games
- OpenAI Day
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Could you build this?
No Building a custom WebGPU 3D voxel game with procedural biomes, combat, and real-time physics requires specialized computer graphics and game engine programming.
What it would actually take: The stack entails a low-level WebGPU engine with custom WGSL shaders, a greedy-meshing chunk generator, an efficient spatial indexing system, and a deterministic game loop. The primary technical hurdles are WebGPU memory management, writing performant compute shaders for voxel extraction, and tuning 3D collision and balance in real time.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 181 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #42 of 182 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 299 days after the earliest competitor.
- Chess-Inspired Roguelike · hn · 2026-06-21 · 433 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Grim Hand · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Dungeon Sookuma · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- pixel-dungeon-neukoelln · github · 2026-09-30 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Cat And Dog Playing In The Rain · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Enter-The-Nyangeon · github · 2026-10-09 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- CATALITY · ph · 2026-10-22 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- HexSettlers · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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