7-day jam became a 14-month build. satirical gun dating SIM (free)

Name: 7-day jam became a 14-month build. satirical gun dating SIM (free)
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Author: seainthetrees

by seainthetrees·Feb 13, 2026·3 points·0 comments

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Political satire dating sim that hit Steam's #2 upcoming before launch.

Strengths

•Shipped a polished, free game with 6,400+ wishlists and 97% positive reviews (142 reviews).
•Original narrative delivery via 3+ hours of podcast content is genuinely unusual for the medium.
•Scope creep documented as team case study; distributed async development is instructive.

Weaknesses

•Game, not a developer tool—outside typical Show HN audience (gaming submissions underperform).
•Ambitious scope (14 months, multiple continents) but no technical innovation to speak of; execution ≠ invention.

Post Description

It's political satire about American gun culture, toxic masculinity, and radicalisation pipelines, built by a distributed async dev team across multiple continents. The project started as a 7-day game jam entry and spiralled into 14 months of development. Whoops.

It hit #2 on Steam's Upcoming Releases page before launch with 6,400+ wishlists.

Some things that might interest this community:

The scope creep from 7 days to 14 months is a case study in how small projects grow Unity, yarn We literally named the team Scope Creeps after this.. crept scope. We recorded 3+ hours of original in-game podcast content as a narrative delivery system The game features an original song from The Stupendium (YouTube creator, hundreds of millions of views) It's free — no microtransactions, no catch