Yesterday’s Light
Change the past in a tiny 3D garden puzzle
Details
- External ID
- 1248581
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Yesterday’s Light
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Puzzle Games, Games, OpenAI Day
- Fetched at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
Description
Change a garden in 1996 and watch the consequences unfold in 2026. Redirect water, grow a bridge from roots, and guide light home across six short puzzles. Built with GPT-6 Astra in Codex. Free to play in your browser, with no sign-up or runtime AI calls.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie puzzle and logic games
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- time-manipulation 3d puzzle game for players
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a self-contained, browser-based 3D puzzle game implemented with WebGL/Three.js across six short discrete puzzles without any backend or ongoing real-time services.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 48 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #12 of 49 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 268 days after the earliest competitor.
- ZAP: Light the Grid (Puzzle Game) · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Mystery Town · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Garden Planner · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- A FIELD GUIDE TO THRIVING GARDEN PLANTS · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Reviving a 20-year-old puzzle game Chromatron with Ghidra and AI · hn · 2026-03-07 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Extinct Atlas: Deep-Time Walkway · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- gpt-5-6-dev.github.io · github · 2026-09-21 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- I Have a Garden · ph · 2026-09-24 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.38
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.