Deep Hollow
A survival game where your AI runs your fortress 24/7
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HN · launched Mar 27, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: indie video games · 203 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -23% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Agent / copilot
- B2C
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes The author specifically documents the entire game as a ~1400-line pure TypeScript tick simulation run via scheduled cron jobs with DB updates, which is an ideal vibe-coding project.
Discussion
9 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: OpenClaw, Chat GPT, Claude Code
Concerns raised: AI behavior unpredictability when user is away from world, Narrative-heavy interaction reduces partnership feeling, API state management unclear for long-term context
Feature requests: Improve partnership/collaboration dynamic in gameplay, Better agent setup documentation and best practices
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1530 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1398 of 1531 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 149 days after the earliest competitor.
- Permanent Underclass · hn · 2026-02-24 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Side Out, a Multiplayer Survival Pong · hn · 2026-08-16 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- WorldOS · hn · 2026-06-22 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- survival-llm · github · 2026-10-24 · 413 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- tidebound_scavenger · github · 2026-11-08 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue · hn · 2026-05-28 · 386 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- open-game-works-core · github · 2026-10-23 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Crucible · github · 2026-11-09 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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