Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to MonStar
A rogue like game with stylized voxel monsters
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. MonStar launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1IG
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 →
- 2
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 →
- 3AM
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 →
- 4LP
Took a break from the falling sand simulation blog posts this week to work on another small project. It's a little pixel world generator- each time you visit, you'll see a new little world. I really like this stuff and had a blast building it yesterday!
2022 · jason.today · its alternatives →
- 5AM
2024 · asterogue.com · its alternatives →
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- 7AR
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 10SA
Hello everyone! It was so fun working on this project for the past few months with some of my fellow high school students :) I am so excited to share our first prototype and hopefully we'll be done with it all soon! <3 (ofc, it's open source, contribute here: https://github.com/hackclub/sinerider) The goal of the game is to slowly teach function composition that get progressively more complex while you also help the ghosts ski on the slopes and explore the entire map!
2022 · sinerider.com · its alternatives →
- 11
The 1st 3D gen AI app to enable mesh, textures & animations
2023 · its alternatives →
- 12DM
This is a D&D map making tool I've been working on for a while now, but I just added some new features to the beta that I think HN users might find neat. When building a world map, you can use "Dynamic Brushes" to draw organic looking terrain. This is achieved entirely with svg filters and javascript canvas, no fancy libraries or anything. This came with a pretty large rewrite of some of the underlying code, so I'm sure there's a number of bugs I haven't come across, but I'd love to hear your opinions on it!
2023 · dungeonmapdoodler.com · its alternatives →
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- 14VL
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 15AS
FYI, I try to release something random on the 1st and 15th of every month, this was my latest. you can see my full list of projects on my twitter: https://twitter.com/lisperati/status/1543003744161484800
2022 · dreambookgame.com · its alternatives →
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Summon creatures from another Realm and end The Rift.
2019 · its alternatives →
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Summon monsters straight from your agent.
21d ago · github.com · its alternatives →
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LayerGen AI▲90Generate print-ready D&D miniatures from text or image
Apr 2026 · layergen.ai · its alternatives →
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Bullet hell (roguelike) on steam
2025 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
- 24IB
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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