Chronos, 2 terminal games through 50 years of hacking history
Details
- External ID
- 49126114
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Chronos, 2 terminal games through 50 years of hacking history
- Website domain
- chronos-game.com
- Launched
- July 31, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 15
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6475507765830346
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal games exploring 50 years of computer hacking history
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Chronos is a narrative-driven terminal hacking puzzle game, which can be implemented straightforwardly using web-based terminal emulators (xterm.js) or standard CLI text-adventure frameworks.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: ed editor is arcane and frustrating to use, difficulty tuning needs feedback, hint level appropriateness unclear
Feature requests: support vi or emacs instead of ed, make editor more intuitive/less obscure
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 75 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #29 of 76 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 266 days after the earliest competitor.
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- A TSP game I wanted for 10 years · hn · 2025-12-09 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Free browser games designed for 80-year-old eyes and hands · hn · 2026-09-29 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Pax Historia - User & AI powered gaming platform · yc · 2026-02-04 · 54 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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