NERVE - Circle Puzzle Arcade
Hold to grow, bank before it bursts.
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NERVE is a high-stakes arcade circle-packing mobile game where greed is rational and safe play is worthless. The core mechanic: Touch and hold anywhere on the screen to spawn and grow a glowing circle. The longer you hold, the faster it expands — but the moment you want a few more points is when it becomes hardest to control. Release to bank points (score equals circle area, so $2\times$ the width yields $4\times$ the points!). Touch a wall, obstacle, or previously placed circle, and it bursts
PH · launched Sep 21, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: casual mobile games · 461 launches, 67 in the last 7 days ▼ -8% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Indie Games
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More like this: all 461 launches in casual mobile games →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a 2D arcade circle-packing game featuring straightforward collision detection, touch events, and standard game-loop physics implemented in a framework like Unity, Godot, or SpriteKit.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 216 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #50 of 217 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 327 days after the earliest competitor.
- Orbital – Orbit Reflex Arcade · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Circles & Lines · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Arrow Tap: Hidden Shapes · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Animal Loop · ph · 2026-10-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Block Blast Puzzle · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Don't Trust It: Fun Trap Jump · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Sweep On: Fluffy Bounce · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Hoplock · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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