Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Cardinal Land
A geometric puzzle game with origami inspired puzzles
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Cardinal Land launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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 →
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An Esher-inspired medieval strategy game — now in AR!
2017 · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! We’re a small creative studio specializing in real-time 3D experiences. Netlify approached us to design and build an interactive experience to celebrate reaching 5 million developers. Inspired by the classic game Marble Madness, we created a gamified experience where users control a ball through playful, interactive levels. The goal was to blend marketing content with the look and feel of a game to engage users. The app is built with Three.js [1], using our custom render pipeline and shaders, and uses Rapier for physics simulation [2]. The 2D content is overlaid on the WebGL view…
2024 · 5-million-devs.netlify.com · its alternatives →
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Study geometry while playing on squared paper
2016 · its alternatives →
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A game about 2D puzzles in 3D space
2021 · peterlavigne.itch.io · its alternatives →
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I've been playing with this for quite some time and I think it's finally ready for public consumption. All feedback welcome.
2025 · madmonk13.github.io · its alternatives →
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Unusual 2-player logic game testing your spatial thinking
2016 · its alternatives →
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