{"slug": "hyperrogue", "name": "HyperRogue", "category": "media", "category_name": "Media and creative", "description": "", "recommenders": 5, "commenters": 6, "warners": 0, "score": 4.496, "rising": -1.64, "first": "2025-11-02", "latest": "2026-06-29", "why": "Actually highly recommend this game. I got a lot of fun out of it", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 6, "neutral": 1, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [3, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Actually highly recommend this game. I got a lot of fun out of it", "kind": "game", "icon": true, "domain": "itch.io", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["HyperRogue"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 779620640, "item_id": 48726290, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48726290", "by": "stared", "date": "2026-06-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hyperrogue features that", "excerpt": "Nice! If you want to play a hyperbolic minesweeper, Hyperrogue features that https://hyperrogue.fandom.com/wiki/Minefield", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"}, {"id": 776175504, "item_id": 48510969, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510969", "by": "xelxebar", "date": "2026-06-12", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The game HyperRogue[0] gives of similar feels", "excerpt": "This could possibly be hinting at a hyperbolic geometry. The game HyperRogue[0] gives of similar feels: you'll be walking through a cat invite land and spot a small dot on the horizon, only to discover that it's yet another vast infinite land. The game also kind of goes all in on the different tilings that a hyperbolic plane admits! 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I got a lot of fun out of it", "excerpt": "Actually highly recommend this game. I got a lot of fun out of it when I discovered it a few years back, and it especially works well as an airplane time waster game. I'm not generally one for roguelikes but this one really is incredibly fun. You can buy it on steam too if you want to support the developer!", "context": "", "use_case": "game", "switched_from": "", "story": "HyperRogue \u2013 A non-Euclidean roguelike"}, {"id": 732638896, "item_id": 45789931, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789931", "by": "versteegen", "date": "2025-11-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "HyperRogue is specifically hyperbolic (and very cool!", "excerpt": "HyperRogue is specifically hyperbolic (and very cool! See also RogueVis), but of course there are a number of non-Euclidean roguelikes. One of my favourites is Smart Kobold [1], which really amazed me at the time, particularly as it was made in just 7 days for the 7DRL! It's so called because pathing through a non-Euclidean map is very difficult for a human but trivial for a computer or a kobold. The map looks 2D, bu", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "HyperRogue \u2013 A non-Euclidean roguelike"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["game", "experiencing hyperbolic geometry"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789596", "title": "HyperRogue \u2013 A non-Euclidean roguelike", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721903", "title": "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48501012", "title": "Report on an Unidentified Space Station", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46451768", "title": "Spherical Snake", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45716371", "title": "Hyperbolic Non-Euclidean World (2007)", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 1}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 779620640, "item_id": 48726290, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48726290", "by": "stared", "date": "2026-06-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hyperrogue features that", "excerpt": "Nice! If you want to play a hyperbolic minesweeper, Hyperrogue features that https://hyperrogue.fandom.com/wiki/Minefield", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"}, {"id": 776175504, "item_id": 48510969, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510969", "by": "xelxebar", "date": "2026-06-12", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The game HyperRogue[0] gives of similar feels", "excerpt": "This could possibly be hinting at a hyperbolic geometry. The game HyperRogue[0] gives of similar feels: you'll be walking through a cat invite land and spot a small dot on the horizon, only to discover that it's yet another vast infinite land. The game also kind of goes all in on the different tilings that a hyperbolic plane admits! 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You can continue moving indefinitely with an infinite tail. https://hyperrogue.miraheze.org/wiki/Land_of_Eternal_Motion", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Spherical Snake"}, {"id": 732775456, "item_id": 45798466, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798466", "by": "thaumasiotes", "date": "2025-11-03", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "> 2D hyperbolic geometry (not possible to create in 3 dimensions, completely foreign to us) Foreign to us, yes. It's perfectly possible to represent a hyperbolic paraboloid in three dimensions. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/HyperbolicParaboloid.html > so I don't think it is a 'display' issue at all. ...you just complained that moving around a sphere should count as non-Euclidean if it's displayed inconveniently, but ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "HyperRogue \u2013 A non-Euclidean roguelike"}, {"id": 732684848, "item_id": 45792803, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45792803", "by": "MoltenMan", "date": "2025-11-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Actually highly recommend this game. I got a lot of fun out of it", "excerpt": "Actually highly recommend this game. I got a lot of fun out of it when I discovered it a few years back, and it especially works well as an airplane time waster game. I'm not generally one for roguelikes but this one really is incredibly fun. You can buy it on steam too if you want to support the developer!", "context": "", "use_case": "game", "switched_from": "", "story": "HyperRogue \u2013 A non-Euclidean roguelike"}, {"id": 732638896, "item_id": 45789931, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789931", "by": "versteegen", "date": "2025-11-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "HyperRogue is specifically hyperbolic (and very cool!", "excerpt": "HyperRogue is specifically hyperbolic (and very cool! See also RogueVis), but of course there are a number of non-Euclidean roguelikes. One of my favourites is Smart Kobold [1], which really amazed me at the time, particularly as it was made in just 7 days for the 7DRL! It's so called because pathing through a non-Euclidean map is very difficult for a human but trivial for a computer or a kobold. The map looks 2D, bu", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "HyperRogue \u2013 A non-Euclidean roguelike"}, {"id": 732633424, "item_id": 45789589, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789589", "by": "stared", "date": "2025-11-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend HyperRogue (https://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/).", "excerpt": "For everyone who wants to experience hyperbolic geometry, I recommend HyperRogue (https://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/).", "context": "", "use_case": "experiencing hyperbolic geometry", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hyperbolic Non-Euclidean World (2007)"}]}