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Terminal Quest

A retro terminal game where you repair a corrupted system.

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Terminal Quest - a terminal mystery game. Explore a corrupted system, find hidden files, befriend the digital cat, and restore the grid. Free alpha browser game.

PH · launched Sep 23, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 11%) · 0 views

Niche: browser-based video games · 380 launches, 28 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Media & entertainment
  • Content generation
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Open Source
  • Indie Games
  • Developer Tools
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Yes It is a text-based/terminal puzzle browser game with scripted interactions and simple state management, easily built with standard web frontend tools.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 130 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #16 of 131 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 286 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Terminal Arcade · hn · 2026-05-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • terminal-tactics · github · 2026-09-22 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • quest64tale-recompiled · github · 2026-10-03 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • torrential · github · 2026-10-18 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.39
  • terminal-mac · github · 2026-11-03 · 2226 upvotes · similarity 0.38
  • rom-cli · github · 2026-10-22 · 120 upvotes · similarity 0.38
  • LostWorldNative · github · 2026-10-26 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.38
  • Agent-arcade · hn · 2026-10-31 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.38

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