Play God on Earth
The real Earth runs itself. You play god.
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Every country starts on its real borders and runs itself. Drop meteors, start plagues, found religions or release a fire-breathing goose, then see what you caused a century later. 25 maps from 1000 BC to today. Free in the browser.
PH · launched Nov 8, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 7%) · 0 views
Niche: simulation games · 118 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -44% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Strategy Games
- Free Games
- Games
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Could you build this?
Partial The game loop, UI, and browser delivery are vibe-codeable, but a convincing version needs curated historical border datasets for 25 maps and a simulation balanced enough to produce interesting emergent outcomes.
What it would actually take: Build a browser game (canvas or WebGL map renderer with a rendering library) on top of historical GeoJSON border data, then design a country-level simulation engine with stats, events, and AI-driven nation behavior. The hard parts are sourcing and cleaning accurate borders for each era and tuning the simulation so that century-scale outcomes feel plausible and fun. This needs a game designer, a historian or GIS person for the data, and playtesting time.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 210 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 211 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 305 days after the earliest competitor.
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