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24 alternatives to 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate
Hi all! My name is Gabriele Cirulli, I’m the original creator of 2048. Ten years ago, someone posted 2048 on HN[1] and suddenly it seemed like everyone was playing it. Back then, I wrote a bit about my experience during those weeks[2]. Even after all these years, that experience still feels a bit surreal to me. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who connected with the game, whether in small or significant ways, and for the stories shared along the way. Some people expressed how they were going through tough times and found some comfort, however small, in playing 2048. At the start of last year,…
Gabriele Cirulli, the original creator of 2048, has released an updated version of his iconic puzzle game ten years after its initial launch. The new version modernizes and polishes the experience while maintaining… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2022 · dogbunnypuzzle.com · its alternatives →
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- 3IG
I was at FB/Meta from late 2013 to early 2023, mostly working in the compiler/runtime spaces. I got hit in the spring 2023 layoff wave. I immediately started making games in my newfound free time (a lifelong interest, and I even worked in AA(A?) back ca. ~2000), and in October 2023 I stumbled upon the idea of a roguelike pachinko/plinko game inspired by Luck Be A Landlord. Things snowballed quickly, I started talking to publishers, then worked like crazy through all of 2024, almost the hardest I've ever worked in my career, and launched the game in December 2024. It's sold…
2025 · its alternatives →
- 4AF
I've seen some interests in (simulation) video games here on HN so I thought I'd share a short version of our story. More than 6 years ago, me and my friend from university were playing around with an idea of making a game we always wanted to play. We worked on it on weekends but the progress was quite slow, especially due to so many dead ends and wasted effort. Eventually however, we solidified our direction and decided to take the risk to resign from our well paid SWE jobs and work on it full time. It took more than a year but yesterday we have finally released it on Steam:…
2022 · its alternatives →
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2048 Circle▲77A more complex and addictive variation of 2048!
2020 · kiraprograms.com · its alternatives →
- 6IM
This is the first iteration of a short game I’m making that tries to interactively explain some of my favorite math questions / ideas. My goal is mostly to get the player curious and not necessarily to explain absolutely everything. There were a lot of fun technical parts to building this: - For implementation reasons, it’s much easier if the lines all have integer intersection points with each other. To do this, when a new line is added I “cheat” by rounding intersections to integers and then splitting the old lines at the intersection into new linds (with potentially different slopes)…
2024 · rahulilango.com · its alternatives →
- 72W
2014 · prism.clay.io · its alternatives →
- 8IS
2012 · ektomarch.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · 1024-game.netlify.app · its alternatives →
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City 2048▲61An exciting, addictive and easy to play puzzle game.
2017 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
- 12M7
2024 · grandmasword.com · its alternatives →
- 13MM
Hey folks, About a year ago my wife and I, both closing in on 40, quit our jobs at Red Hat to start a games company and learn game development. Many things happened along the road, and about a week ago we released our first (small) game on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2816120/Mazelit/ The demo is free to play up to level 8 (the final game plays up to level 80) and we'd appreciate any feedback you have, whether it's for the store page or the game itself. We made the game in Godot 4.2 in roughly 3 months and I was working full time next to it. Since…
2024 · its alternatives →
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2048▲12Classic 2048. Simple, fast, and ad-free.
2025 · 2048-gameonline.github.io · its alternatives →
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2018 · mind-circus.org · its alternatives →
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2048▲42048 in a new appealing design. Can you get the 2048 tile?
2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I made this small game in my spare time. It's quite addictive, I spent a lot of hours playing instead of polishing it. My own highscore is 96,792. Source code is at https://github.com/MikeBellika/tile-game. It's made with react, tailwind, and framer motion. Hope you enjoy!
2024 · bellika.dk · its alternatives →
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2048 plus: the ultimate puzzle challenge
2024 · arcade.now · its alternatives →
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🎮 Fully featured terminal version of the game "2048" written in C++ - plibither8/2048.cpp
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Doge 2048▲75A different take on the very addictive 2048 game
2014 · doge2048.com · its alternatives →
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2048 for Swift. Contribute to austinzheng/swift-2048 development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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