NYC Survive
Times Square has gone dark. Keep them alive.
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A colony sim set in a besieged Times Square. Command survivors, build shelter and defenses, keep them fed, rested and breathing. No autopilot, every move is yours. Free on web and Mac.
PH · launched Sep 20, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: management and simulation games · 82 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -58% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Strategy Games
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Could you build this?
No Building a full-fledged real-time colony simulation game with pathfinding, AI behaviors, asset rendering, and economy balance is beyond the scope of prompt-driven vibe coding.
What it would actually take: This requires a robust 2D/isometric game engine (like Godot, Unity, or custom PixiJS/Phaser) implementing complex state machines, resource tick loops, and grid-based pathfinding (A* or flow fields) for dozens of autonomous survivors. Custom pixel art, animation sprites, sound design, and balance testing are needed alongside memory-efficient Mac desktop builds and WebAssembly exports. Deep game design, systems engineering, and custom asset pipelines are strictly necessary.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 92 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #75 of 93 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 227 days after the earliest competitor.
- Epochs: From Claw to Cosmos · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- The Galaxy We Made · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Mars Sandbox · ph · 2026-09-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- American Life · ph · 2026-10-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Skyline Co-op is like SimTower, but built around democratic socialism · hn · 2026-08-06 · 41 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Capybara Island · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Project Moonlife · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- LIVE IN · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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