FuseCells
a handcrafted logic puzzle game with 2,500 levels
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Hi everyone, I built FuseCells, a minimalistic logic puzzle game where every level is handcrafted (no procedural generation). It started as a personal challenge to design a clean rule-set and scale it to thousands of puzzles without losing difficulty balance.What’s unique: • 2,500 handcrafted levels across multiple grid sizes • Deterministic logic — no guessing required • A rule system inspired by constraint-solving and path-finding concepts • Daily challenges and global progress tracking • Fully built as a solo dev projectTechnical notes for those curious: • Level generation tools I wrote validate solvability using a custom constraint solver • Difficulty is estimated via step-count of the solver • The game is optimized to run smoothly on low-end devices • Designed first for iOS, now fully adapted for iPad as wellI’d love feedback from puzzle lovers, game designers, and anyone interested in handcrafted logic design. Here’s the App Store link: [inserați linkul]Thanks for reading — happy to answer any technical questions!
HN · launched Dec 6, 2025 · 37 upvotes (top 23%) · 0 views
Niche: browser puzzle games · 310 launches, 26 in the last 7 days ▼ -7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes A 2D logic grid puzzle game with straightforward neighbor-counting rules and static level data; creating the UI, state tracking, and validation logic is easily accomplished with vibe coding.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Nonogram games, F-Droid apps
Concerns raised: Low-end device claim conflicts with iOS-only launch, Paywall (CTA) appears too early in game progression, Red/green color contrast issues for colorblind players, Initial frame rate lag on first launch, Repeated puzzle patterns (rotated versions) not sufficiently spaced
Feature requests: Android and Web version, Improve hint system to give strategic advice instead of rule explanations, Hide/toggle timer option, Space out rotated puzzle variants more throughout progression, Use different musical keys/triads for sound feedback variety
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 432 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #98 of 433 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 38 days after the earliest competitor.
- FuseCells · hn · 2025-12-31 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.93
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- Graycells Games · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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