2026-09-30
Vibe games: 2,598 likes for the jeer, a handful you can play
Vibe games, read 29 September 2026: Wildbrush at 4,362 likes, a nine-word jeer at 2,598, and 91 games in the Axie Vibeathon hub.
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On 27 September 2026 Danny Limanseta sat down with his two boys and an AI and finished Wildbrush, a desktop adventure whose weapon is a paintbrush. The post drew 4,362 likes. The next morning a nine-word refusal drew 2,598.
A vibe game is a playable game whose maker says an AI wrote most of the code. The paintbrush is the useful specimen. Red burns, blue freezes, yellow bounces, green grows vines, and once you light four crystals the brush becomes a thing you can fly. Two biomes, three dungeons, a cave, thirty enemies, one boss. He built it on a Saturday because the boys asked for Zelda and then asked for the brush to fly.
You can play it: Wildbrush.
The post itself: Danny Limanseta, 27 September 2026.
Brian Flynn answered it with one line. "Probably the first vibecoded game I spent more than an hour playing." That sentence is the whole filter. A vibe game that holds you for an hour has left the demo reel.
How did the pile get this big?
The Cursor Vibe Jam 2026 ran from 1 April to 1 May, deadline 13:37 UTC, with a 40,000 dollar prize pool. Sponsors were Cursor, Bolt.new, Glif and Tripo. The rule that makes it a vibe jam: at least 90 percent of the code written by an AI. The jam's own press, updated 29 September 2026, says 945 games were submitted. This catalog lists 2,017 rows from the 2026 jam file.
After 1 May the factory moved. New games show up as a post with a link, and a day or two later in a hub someone else keeps.
The Axie Vibeathon is the hub that is open now. On 24 September the Axie Infinity account said 90 community games were in the Games Hub, most of them in the browser. On 30 September the public hub returned 91 games across eight pages. They are in this catalog. Two you can open from here: Lunacia Command and Angry Axies. The rest sit under the same roof: the Games Hub.
Why is the jeer louder than the game?
The heaven of this week is a father, two boys, and a brush that flies. The noise in the middle is the word used as a slur.
On 28 September @AzFlin wrote: "nobody wants to play your vibe coded threejs game." 2,598 likes, 103,000 views, read on 29 September.
The same morning @sonicstadium, a Sonic news account, answered a port of Knuckles' Chaotix with: "Don't play this, it's reportedly vibe coded and runs like garbage." 2,688 likes. The game in question is a recompile of a 1995 Sega 32X title. The insult does not need the game to be a Saturday toy. Vibe-coded, in that sentence, means don't bother.
Put the two numbers next to the games and the jeer is not a small side comment. It outruns Dodge League. It does not outrun Wildbrush, and it does not come close to the browser game that actually travelled.
Destroy Any Website, by Hugo Duprez, is the picture that travelled. "Destroy any website with a stickman." 55,723 likes and about 41,700 bookmarks, read 29 September. You type an address, a stick figure shoots the page apart, up to six people in one room. It was a Show HN thread the same day. He did not call it a vibe game. It stays in this piece, and it stays off the vibe catalog, because the catalog is for games whose makers claim the word.
Play it at destroy.spritefusion.com. The post: Hugo Duprez, 28 September 2026.
The handful you can open this week
These are the posts from the last fortnight where the maker said vibe-coded and left a link that still answers. They are in the catalog.
- Wildbrush, Danny Limanseta, desktop, the paintbrush.
- BREAKWATER, Nil Ni, a 3v3 browser MOBA. The tide floods the lane every 90 seconds. Eight heroes, 24 abilities.
- Happily Ever After, Viktor, 25 September.
- TOUCH GRASS, abhinav, 19 September. Leave the startup.
- Dodge League, Blushney, on Roblox, 27 September. 426 likes. He said two prompts.
- The rest of Danny's playable set from his own page: Understory, Little Habitats, Ascend: Atlantis, Breaking: Kaiju!, Poseidia, Cook the Dungeon. Tiny Skies was already here from the jam. He took a prize for it.
Writing the games down is one way to become the voice of the scene. We are going to be the world's biggest and best vibegame site.
The next piece is the player who is not a person: virtual players who file tickets for the gamemaster.
Fact table
| Basket | Claim |
|---|---|
| Fact | Danny Limanseta posted Wildbrush on 27 September 2026 and called it vibe-coded with his two boys. 4,362 likes, read 29 September 2026. Playable at wildbrush.vercel.app. |
| Fact | @AzFlin, 28 September 2026: "nobody wants to play your vibe coded threejs game." 2,598 likes, read 29 September. |
| Fact | @sonicstadium, 28 September 2026, on a Knuckles' Chaotix recompile: "Don't play this, it's reportedly vibe coded and runs like garbage." 2,688 likes, read 29 September. |
| Fact | Hugo Duprez, 28 September 2026: "Destroy any website with a stickman." 55,723 likes and about 41,700 bookmarks, read 29 September. The post does not call the game vibe-coded. |
| Fact | Cursor Vibe Jam 2026 ran 1 April to 1 May, deadline 13:37 UTC, prize pool 40,000 dollars, 90 percent AI code. Press updated 29 September 2026 says 945 games submitted. This catalog lists 2,017 rows from the 2026 jam file. |
| Fact | Axie Infinity said on 24 September 2026 that 90 Vibeathon games were in the Games Hub. On 30 September the public hub returned 91 games. |
| Hypothesis | An hour of play, Flynn's line on Wildbrush, is the sort that separates a vibe game people return to from a clip. Confidence medium. One player said it. The like counts do not measure minutes played. |
| Hypothesis | Writing the games, with the posts beside them, is how a catalog becomes the voice of the scene. This is the aim. We are going to be the world's biggest and best vibegame site. |
Sources
- Danny Limanseta, 27 September 2026. Wildbrush, the boys, the brush, 4,362 likes.
- Brian Flynn, 27 September 2026. The hour.
- AzFlin, 28 September 2026. The nine-word jeer.
- Sonic Stadium, 28 September 2026. The Chaotix line.
- Hugo Duprez, 28 September 2026. Destroy Any Website.
- Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman.
- Cursor Vibe Jam 2026, press. Dates, 40,000 dollars, 945 games, 90 percent rule. Updated 29 September 2026.
- Axie Vibeathon Games Hub. 91 public games on 30 September 2026.
- Danny Limanseta, games. The playable set, including Wildbrush and Tiny Skies.
- Nil Ni, BREAKWATER, 29 September 2026.
- Blushney, Dodge League, 27 September 2026.