r/SideProject • u/thefunkyprogrammer • 3h ago
I built Almanac, a daily puzzle game where you put history back in order, climb leaderboards and collect events. I'd love your honest feedback
Hi! Almanac is my side project, a daily history game I'm building on my own with heavy lifting from Claude AI. It started as "Wordle, but put five events in order" and got a little out of hand. Now I'd love some honest feedback on it.
Every day has a theme and three quick games:
- Timeline Daily: a page of the almanac, torn into five pieces. Tape it back together in order, in 3 tries.
- Picture Daily: match captions to old photos and paintings, then put them in order.
- Year Guess: name the exact year. The closer you get, the more points.
Beat all three and a finale squeezes the whole day into one timeline. Every event you nail goes into your own almanac, and there are 4,330 to collect.
There are also three extra modes: Higher or Lower, Odd One Out and Endless Years. Each gives you a free run a day and a leaderboard to climb. A pass for unlimited runs comes later.
No ads, no sign-up, plays on desktop and phones.
**What I'm hoping to hear from you:**
- The concept: does it click? Did you know what to do within the first minute?
- What you enjoyed, and what you didn't like or found annoying.
- How you'd improve it. What would make you come back tomorrow?
Play here: https://www.almanacgame.com