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Show HN: I Built a Retro Survival RPG in Vanilla JavaScript

I'm working on the Survival Crafting RPG that you would have played on your Apple II back in the '80s. You can think of it as Valheim's gameplay crammed into the tile-based UI of the old Ultima games. It has a procedurally-generated open world with towns and NPCs to talk to, all the resource gathering, mining, crafting stuff you'd expect in a modern survival game, and some good old fashioned dungeon crawling to boot.

I've been working on it off and on for the last several months. It's complete up through the Bronze Age (in Valheim terms). Let me know what you think!

https://stravaeger.com/

( 3 comments | on HN )
Re:Show HN: I Built a Retro Survival RPG in Vanilla JavaScript by franze on Saturday May 09, 2026 @08:29AM (#48074448)
Cool
Re:Show HN: I Built a Retro Survival RPG in Vanilla JavaScript by katzito on Saturday May 09, 2026 @08:29AM (#48074454)
Got killed by goat. :)
Re:Show HN: I Built a Retro Survival RPG in Vanilla JavaScript by jasonkester on Saturday May 09, 2026 @09:31AM (#48074825)
Everybody gets killed by the goat.