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24 alternatives to Colony Flow! Guide

Every Colony Flow! level solved: video walkthroughs + tips

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Hello, HN - I wanted to share this puzzle game I made during my vacation. I'm rather fond of the pipes puzzle where your goal is to restore a scrambled network of connections by rotating tiles. It's usually played on a grid of squares and this all started when I decided to make a programmatic solver for that kind of puzzle. Then I realized that with some minor changes the solver could generate new puzzle instances. I thought about what kind of puzzle to make and someone suggested a hexagonal grid. Adapting the generator wasn't too hard but then I had to create a way to play this variant. So…

    2022 · hexapipes.vercel.app · 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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    Free video walkthroughs for all 850+ Pixel Flow levels

    Jan 2026 · pixel-flow-level.org · its alternatives →

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    I built a desktop Mars colony survival game called Underhill, in homage to Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. Land on Mars, build solar panels and greenhouses, and try not to pass out during dust storms. Eventually your colonists split into factions: Greens who want to terraform and Reds who want to preserve Mars. There’s Chill Mode for players that just want to build & hang, and Conflict Mode that introduces the Red v. Green factions. Reds sabotage, the terrain slowly turns green as the world gets more terraformed. Feedback welcome, especially on performance and gameplay!

    Feb 2026 · underhillgame.com · its alternatives →

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    We built an ant colony simulation as an internal hiring challenge at Moment and decided to open it up publicly. You write a program in a custom assembly-like (we call it ant-ssembly) instruction set that controls 200 ants. Each ant can sense nearby cells (food, pheromones, home, other ants) but has no global view. The only coordination mechanism is pheromone trails, which ants can emit and sense them, but that's it. Your program runs identically on every ant. The goal is to collect the highest percentage of food across a set of maps. Different map layouts (clustered food, scattered,…

    Mar 2026 · dev.moment.com · its alternatives →

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    Master the art of pixel flow!

    Dec 2025 · pixel-flow-level.com · its alternatives →

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    Visual explanation of pathfinding algorithms and how a*, Dijkstra and BFS can be seen as the same algorithm with different parameter/data structures used under the hood - npretto/pathfinding

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I think graph is a wrong abstraction for building AI agents. Just look at how incredibly hard it is to make routing using LangGraph - conditional edges are a mess. I built Laminar Flow to solve a common frustration with traditional workflow engines - the rigid need to predefine all node connections. Instead of static DAGs, Flow uses a dynamic task queue system that lets workflows evolve at runtime. Flow is built on 3 core principles: * Concurrent Execution - Tasks run in parallel automatically * Dynamic Scheduling - Tasks can schedule new tasks at runtime * Smart Dependencies - Tasks can…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An arcade game for programmers

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Pixel Flow Level Guides - Walkthroughs & Solutions

    Jan 2026 · pixelflowlevel.kiveo.org · its alternatives →

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    My cousin and I love the Terraforming Mars board game. But we'd often get overly excited and knock our pieces off of our boards, losing track of our progress. So I digitised it. It comes with a few cool features like resource conversions (e.g. converting plants to greenery), production phase, offline, mobile-friendly and keeps track of the history using the browser history itself. Sharing this here in case there are any other TM fans that could also find some use in this :)

    2024 · terraforming-mars-player-board.netlify.app · its alternatives →

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    Workout your brain with this free logic puzzle game

    2023 · pixelogic.app · its alternatives →

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    Building a 1D-Pong game is a bit of a rite of passage at the Chaos Communication Congress. I was inspired by a version I saw at 38C3 and built my own interpretation for 39C3. Lots of people enjoyed playing it and even Elliot Williams featured it in his 39C3 Hackaday Podcast. And I can attest: it's truly fun because it's sooo simple at first sight - but wait until the speed increases... Not a bad work to fun created ratio for such a little project. I used the opportunity to play around with Claude Code on my preexisting codebase to publish a nice-ish repo on GitHub. It worked great without…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The classic 15-puzzle now online

    2018 · 15puzzle.netlify.com · its alternatives →

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    Think you can solve the Invisible Maze? Take the Challenge!

    2016 · 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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    Video walkthroughs for all 182 Sand Loop puzzle levels

    Jan 2026 · sandloopguide.org · its alternatives →

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    Hello guys, I'm glad to present to you PlayAlgoShip, a web-based game where you solve fun algorithmic puzzles. The rules are simple, you need to find the correct algorithm that makes the ship collect all stars. If you succeed, you will unlock the next level! There are also live statistics like how many players are currently playing on your current level (you are not alone struggling!), the finish rate of the level, and how many players liked/disliked it. It's 100% free, I hope you will enjoy the experience!

    2024 · playalgoship.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, I’m an indie developer learning Next.js and a big fan of the NYT game Pips. Inspired by it, I built https://pipsgamer.com — a responsive web version of Pips with smooth gameplay on both desktop and mobile. What makes this project different from NYT’s version is that you can play it infinitely under three difficulty levels: Easy / Medium / Hard. This is the first time I’ve built a game. Along the way I ran into many difficulties: implementing the game logic, configuring the UI, matching layouts for small and large screens, etc. I spent many lonely nights and…

    2025 · pipsgamer.com · its alternatives →

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    Dive into Pixel Path & discover endless gaming adventures

    2025 · pixelpath.net · its alternatives →

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    I created this game with a website called flowlab

    2020 · flowlab.io · its alternatives →

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    Welcome to Letter Flow – A Fun Word Puzzle with Liquid Motion! Letter Flow is a relaxing and satisfying word game with a cool liquid effect. Move letter droplets and watch them flow smoothly into place as you find the correct word. Just drag, drop, and solve. Features: • Smooth liquid-style letter motion • Easy drag-and-drop gameplay • Clean and colorful design • Fun word categories like fruits, animals, and places • Helpful hints when you get stuck • Replay your favorite levels anytime Letter Flow is the perfect blend of calm, creativity, and challenge. It feels like playing with liquid…

    Aug 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, Claude Code is powerful, but its execution is a black box. You see the final result, not the journey. Agent Flow makes the invisible visible in realtime: - Understand agent behavior: See how Claude breaks down problems, which tools it reaches for, and how subagents coordinate - Debug tool call chains: When something goes wrong, trace the exact sequence of decisions and tool calls that led there - See where time is spent: Identify slow tool calls, unnecessary branching, or redundant work at a glance - Learn by watching: Build intuition for how to write better prompts by observing how…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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