NYC Survive
Times Square has gone dark. Keep them alive.
Details
- External ID
- 1247233
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- NYC Survive
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 20, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Strategy Games
- Fetched at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- survival game set in times square
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 42 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #23 of 43 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
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- I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books · hn · 2026-02-08 · 307 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- nycsquarebid.lol · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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