Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to HoloCure
Play, upgrade, and survive endless waves of enemies.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. HoloCure launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A seeded chess-pathfinding roguelite. Guide Prince Chazz across the board, dodging enemy pieces, and race the per-seed leaderboard.
Jun 2026 · princechazz.com · its alternatives →
- 2BW
Hi HN ! This is an open source project I've been working on for a while. It's actually the third breakout-like game I've built. I really like the simplicity of the concept, having just one input (the puck horizontal position) and a simple gameplay that gives a low skill floor. My girlfriend and I played a lot of the excellent LBreakoutHD, an open source breakout game that follows the traditional formula of having multiple lives, scoring points by breaking bricks and catching the good upgrades that spawn randomly and fall down, while avoiding bad upgrades. She liked this game because it is…
2025 · breakout.lecaro.me · its alternatives →
- 3AM
2024 · asterogue.com · its alternatives →
- 4AR
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 5IS
Hey everyone! Long time lurker, first time poster. I've just reached beta in my game BoxByte Lyte. -What is it- It's a free 3d arcade game for hardcore players that uses color matching in interesting ways. Also it's a one button game, well movement and one button. Cool huh? The final release will be free too. -What I need- This is a very challenging game, so I really need to balance the difficulty so that it's still hard but not impossible. It would be great just to hear your experiences of the game and how far in it you got. -Where can I report bugs?-…
2015 · its alternatives →
- 6H0
Hello, Hacker News! My name is Lillian (see: http://about.lillian.link/), and I just released version 0.2 of my MIT-licensed game engine, Hypatia(http://lillian-lemmer.github.io/hypatia/). Hypatia is a game engine for single player 2D action adventure games. You can use it to make a game like Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons. Hypatia is aimed at non-programmers and programmers alike. I'm seeking any sort of feedback. Hypatia supports FreeBSD first, but has great support for just about any platform…
2015 · its alternatives →
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Hey, everyone! I'm making a game: its title is Nests & Insects and I call it a "Roguelike Tabletop Roleplaying Game (TTRPG)". It is free, as in beer and speech. You can find the rulebook on the game's github repository, linked through the post title. Nests & Insects is a game for 1 to 7 players, one of which takes on the role of the Game Queen (GQ) and describes the game world to the other players. The players control characters who explore and interact with the game world. The players say what their characters do and roll dice to see what happens, then the GQ describes the results. Players'…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bullet hell (roguelike) on steam
2025 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
- 13IB
Hey HN! What started off as a meme has turned into a passion project and I'm pretty excited about it. As the title suggests, I made a Rock, Paper, Scissors game in React. The twist is the perk shop that you can power yourself up upon wins. I have a Node web socket backend because it started off as just a PvP experience, but I wanted people to be able to play a solo mode. That's where the Roguelike comes in. I still have plenty of features to go! But for now, it's an endless Roguelike where after each round, you get to upgrade a shop perk to make your character stronger. I'd love to get some…
2024 · xtremerps.com · its alternatives →
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Free voxel roguelike survival with magic and cute wzards
Apr 2026 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Find your next favorite Steam game in seconds
Jan 2026 · playpick.gg · its alternatives →
- 17RR
About a month ago, I shared the Day 1 prototype of this project (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46448670). It has since evolved into a somewhat more polished "Slot-Machine Deckbuilder." I also recently moved the project from qq-pwn.com to alt-qq.com. I did this mid-development specifically to see if I could migrate a live player base and session states without losing people. The Design Challenge: The core of the game is a "One-Armed Bandit" dungeon crawler. The challenge is balancing the "house always wins" nature of slots with the player agency required for a good…
Jan 2026 · alt-qq.com · its alternatives →
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Dodge. Survive. Outlast the swarm.
2025 · imabutahersiddik.github.io · its alternatives →
- 20AR
A minimal "@ moving around a hardcoded map" implemented in a bunch of languages, some by me and some contributed by others. A slightly more interesting riff on the Hello World or 99 Bottles of Beer theme. More languages or improvements on existing ones would be nice :) There's a github repo at: https://github.com/nrkn/SimpleRL
2011 · its alternatives →
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Place Pokémon, defend paths, defeat legendary bosses
Jan 2026 · pokepathgame.com · its alternatives →
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arcade,geometric,spin,neon,defence,casual,game,action,ios
Apr 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Tired of misleading mobile Ads? I made the real game.
2021 · its alternatives →
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Word Hack▲14Enter the terminal. Engage your mind. Exploit the language.
Nov 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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