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1. 21 Aug 2026

   New game, Moonhaul

   Moonhaul is a lunar lander game where the freight fights you. You fly in one-sixth gravity with one engine and no steering — you go where your nose points — and hanging beneath you on a cable is a cargo pod with real mass. Every burn you make sets it swinging, and once it swings its momentum comes back up the cable and drags the lander with it, so crossing a sector is a negotiation between two objects rather than one.

   Each contract ends the same way: set the pod down on the depot pad, then step sideways and put the lander down beside it — slow, level, and with the swing killed. Fuel only ever arrives when you deliver, and the depot hands you a little less every time while the pads sit further apart, so a run ends when your flying is no longer efficient enough for the contract you were just handed.

   It's our tribute to the oldest genre there is. *Lunar Lander* was a text game in 1969, the year of the actual landing, and a vector arcade cabinet ten years later; we owe it the fuel gauge, the flat pads and the awful slowness of a bad approach. The pendulum on the end of the rope is the part that's ours.

   Play Moonhaul

2. 4 Aug 2026

   Strata — dig a world that remembers you

   Our biggest game yet. You start on a patch of topsoil with a drill and a lamp, and everything below you — well over a thousand metres of clay, slate, granite, deepstone and magma, and just as much of it side to side — is yours to cut apart in any direction you like.

   Haul ore up to the surface, sell it, and spend the credits on a better drill, more cargo, more fuel, a wider lamp, a tougher hull, and eventually a jetpack that turns the whole cavern system into somewhere you can actually fly. Then go deeper, where caves flood, gravel gives way over your head, gas pockets vent your fuel and lava will happily melt through your hull.

   And there is a reason to keep going. Somewhere in each stratum is a sealed vault holding one of five Seals. Collect all five and the Core Vault at the very bottom — thirteen hundred metres down — will open for you. What is inside has to be carried all the way back to the surface. Nobody is doing that in one sitting.

   Here is the part we like best: everyone digs the same world each week. A new one is cut every Monday, so the leaderboards are a fair fight — same caves, same seals, same luck — and you have seven days to get as deep, as rich, or as far into the Compact as you can before the ground resets and a fresh world opens up.

   Start digging

3. 8 Jul 2026

   Rate the games

   Every game now has a review section — leave a 1–5 star rating and tell us what you liked or what could be better, right on the game's page. Your feedback shapes which games we polish and what we build next.

4. 6 Jul 2026

   Every game, one place

   We brought all the games onto alftanet.com itself — you'll now find them at tidy addresses like alftanet.com/skyguard and alftanet.com/huedle. One site to browse, cleaner links, and old bookmarks redirect automatically.

5. 6 Jul 2026

   Huedle — a new puzzle every day

   Our first daily game landed. Everyone gets the same secret colour each day, with a fresh one at 00:00 UTC. You have six guesses, hints after every try, a new leaderboard daily, plus crowns for wins and streaks to keep alive. Play today's colour

6. 5 Jul 2026

   The lineup keeps growing

   A run of new arcade twists joined the collection: Neon Coil (snake reimagined with portals and speed ramps), Bricklash (a BBTAN-style ball shooter), Overstack (a one-tap tower stacker built for phones), alongside Swarmfall and Driftbreak.

7. The story so far

   Alftanet started with a handful of arcade classics rebuilt for the browser — Gravity Dash, Skyguard and Starhive — and keeps growing. Every game is free, instant, and made for that one-more-go feeling. More on the way, so check back.