runner // reflex
Neon Fool
SIGNAL 5/5
A lane-runner where every gate is a card and the fool never stops accelerating. Cleanest 60-second loop we've scanned this year. Full report on the reports page.
Deep scan// Currently on the board
puzzle // logic
Glitch Court
SIGNAL 4/5
Repair corrupted court cards by rerouting their glitched pixels — the jester card is the only one that wants to stay broken. Clever, moody, occasionally obtuse.
Deep scan
rhythm // 8-bit
BitBell
SIGNAL 4/5
Drum a jester's bells to chiptune tracks that mutate every time the wild note lands. The hardest S-ranks in the genre, and the fairest. Wrist warm-ups advised.
Deep scan
tactics // grid
Wildframe
SIGNAL 3/5
Hex-grid tactics where your one wild unit copies whatever it stands next to. Brilliant core rule, uneven mission design past sector six. Watching for patches.
Deep scan
logic // minimal
Last Trick
SIGNAL 5/5
One card, one room, one rule that changes each floor. A minimalist logic game that trusts you completely. Sixty floors; we have thoughts about floor 47.
Deep scan
you // maybe
Spotted something on your own radar?
The queue takes submissions. If it has a joker in it and costs nothing to play, we'll sweep it.
Submit a game// How signal strength works
Every game on the board gets the same treatment: seven consecutive days of play, on the same mid-range phone and the same ageing laptop, notes kept in a plain text file like civilised people. At the end we assign signal strength from 1 to 5 bars — a measure of how strongly a game holds attention across the whole week, not how flashy its first hour is.
Bar five is reserved for games we kept playing after the scan formally ended. Bar one means the signal faded before day three; we publish those reports too, because a tracker that only reports good news is an advertisement. The full protocol, including what gets a game removed from the board, lives on the method page.
Wildframe's sector-six difficulty spike re-tested after the July patch — still spiky, rating unchanged at 3 bars. Last Trick floor 47 remains the best puzzle of the year. Two new candidates entered the sweep queue this week.
// The frequency report
A short email whenever a sweep finishes — new scans, rating changes, games removed from the board. Roughly monthly. Plain text, naturally.
>_ FREQUENCY LOCKED. You'll hear from the station when the next sweep completes.