Why I collect DLES

I'll be honest, I never quite understood the fascination with daily games that Wordle seems to have sparked. I'll grant that it's probably better than being stuck in algorithmic feeds, but the retention strategies, such as streaks, are just as manipulative.

I wanna play a game when and how often I like and not be forced into a daily pattern and be made to feel awful if I miss it just once.

	▲	king_zee an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Depends on the game, I stopped wordle because it didn't give me any validation when I solved it anymore, but some games are genuinely fun, and the "daily" element is only because they're replayable puzzles, like sudoku or crosswords, try https://cluesbysam.com/ for example, it's my favourite, difficulty scales by day so Monday is easiest
	▲	batch12 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I put a word game together, it was a fun exercise. Nobody plays it except my wife and her family. It's really not even finished or even that good. Since it's one of the few things she likes that I made, it's still up with a user base of 3.

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andersmurphy 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nice. The build your ritual is quite a cute feature.

	▲	trizoza 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		TY! You'd be surprised how many people forget to play their DLES cause they just play too many. This solves that.

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anticorporate 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I like the collection, but I'd love it if someone would make a high-quality open source clone of them. They're so simple, I really don't care if it's AI slop under the hood as long I don't have to endure the pointless tracking and ads most of them employ.

A clone rater would be a great service to this genre, since many of the clones out there are somehow, just, really bad - maybe because the barrier to entry is so low?

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thunderfork 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This collection is missing my personal fave: https://javdle.com (very NSFW)