Vibe Jam 2026 top five: from capybaras to ASCII

Vibe Jam 2026 drew 945 games, according to its press page, and these five finished on top. Pieter Levels (levelsio) organized it, and the official page calls it Cursor Vibe Jam 2026, after its diamond sponsor. Entries had to be new, free web games with at least 90% of the code written by AI, according to the jam page.

The top three won $25,000, $10,000 and $5,000, according to Levels’s results post. The jam’s final ranking, as recorded in our catalog, puts Null Range fourth and HALDANE-4 fifth.

Rank	Game	What it is	Tool	Online	Phones
1	A Game About Capybaras Delivering Food	Cozy delivery game	Claude Code	Yes	Yes
2	Fanto’s Mega-Mart	Haunted supermarket racer	Codex	Yes	No
3	WenWare	Where-and-when guessing game	Codex	Yes	Yes
4	Null Range	Space dogfighter	Cursor	Yes	Yes
5	HALDANE-4	ASCII horror story	Cursor	No	Yes

1. A Game About Capybaras Delivering Food

The title is the whole pitch, and it is accurate. You play a capybara food courier in a cozy open world: take an order, then get it across the map as fast as you can.

The catch is the cargo. The fruit you carry stacks up like a tower, so every delivery trades speed against keeping the stack upright. The world is a capybara-themed take on the food delivery apps people already know, down to the buildings and the apps, and it supports online multiplayer and phones.

Its creator, leocooout, built it with Claude Code on Three.js. According to the jam entry, the idea came from their own past work as a developer on a food delivery app. It took first place and $25,000.

Steal this: one mechanic that makes going fast risky. The stack turns an errand into a skill test. Ask your agent for the one thing that punishes rushing.

2. Fanto’s Mega-Mart

Fanto’s Mega-Mart is a supermarket dash in a haunted store. You race through the aisles at rocket speed, grabbing items as you go, and other players can compete in the same store online.

Its creator, e_c_t_o, built it with Codex on Three.js, for desktop play. According to the jam entry, the concept came from a dream, shaped by a TV supermarket-sweep contest. It is the only one of the five that doesn’t list phones. Second place paid $10,000.

Steal this: a format players already know, with one twist. Everyone understands a supermarket sweep; a haunted one is new.

3. WenWare

WenWare is a geography guessing game with a second question: when. Each round drops you into a 360-degree scene from history. You study the buildings, clothing and surroundings, then pin the place on a map and guess the year.

That second guess turns architecture and technology into clues about the era as well as the region. The WenWare site now lists five new daily rounds, a ranked 1v1 queue and parties of up to six players.

Its creator, underpaid_mom, built it with Codex and Three.js, and it runs on phones. It placed third for $5,000 and also won the Most Played award from Bolt.new.

Steal this: a second question. Guessing where is a good game; guessing where and when doubles what every clue means.

4. Null Range

Null Range is a first-person space dogfighter. You fly from the cockpit, hunt other pilots online and try to stay out of their sights. According to the jam entry, the creator points to Elite: Dangerous as a reference.

The game’s own screen spells out the controls: W and S for throttle, A and D to strafe, Shift to boost, click to fire lasers and Space to ping sonar. On phones, landscape mode is required.

Its creator, taylor_sntx, built it with Cursor on Three.js. It placed fourth and won Best Art Direction, one of Cursor’s two sponsor awards.

Steal this: controls on the screen. A jam player gives you seconds, and a game that tells them what the keys do keeps them.

5. HALDANE-4

HALDANE-4 is a short horror story told in ASCII characters. You descend alone beneath the Antarctic ice shelf, deeper through cold, dark spaces, while the story unfolds around you.

The jam entry lists two limits: ASCII graphics and a download under 5 MB. All sound is generated procedurally, except for an AI-generated voice-over that carries part of the story. The game’s page asks you to use headphones and calls it best on desktop, though it runs on phones too. WASD thrusts, the mouse rotates, Space is your light, and Shift turns your engine off.

Its creator, denisbondare, built it with Cursor. It placed fifth and won Most Original, Cursor’s other sponsor award. It is the only single-player game of the five.

Steal this: a limit chosen on purpose. ASCII art, a tiny download and sound made in code add up to a style, and the constraint keeps the build small enough to finish.

What the five share

The top five lean on one profile: Three.js, online play and phones. Of the five, 4 run on Three.js, 4 are online multiplayer and 4 list phones, and 3 of them tick all three boxes.

The jam recommended Three.js and preferred multiplayer, and the top of the ranking follows both hints more closely than the field does. Counts come from our catalog as of September 30, 2026, and what the top 50 did differently goes deeper, down to median placements per tool.

Trait	Top five	Top 50 we list (34 games)	All 367 entries we list
On Three.js	4	29 (85%)	248 (68%)
Online multiplayer	4	22 (65%)	169 (46%)
List phones	4	26 (76%)	255 (69%)

The three most-named tools in the jam each put a game in the top five. Claude Code has 1, Codex 2 and Cursor 2. The jam carried Cursor’s name, and second and third place name Codex.

Three of the five also won special awards: WenWare for Most Played, Null Range for Best Art Direction and HALDANE-4 for Most Original. Two of the top three are errands, delivering food and shopping for groceries, and their ideas came from a past job and a dream.

And what they don’t

No two of the five list the same genres. Simulation shows up in 3 of them and racing in 2, but every set is different:

• Capybaras: simulation, racing and adventure
• Fanto’s Mega-Mart: action and racing
• WenWare: puzzle and simulation
• Null Range: shooter and simulation
• HALDANE-4: adventure and horror

The moods don’t match either. The capybara world is cozy and Fanto’s store is haunted but playful. WenWare plays like a small detective puzzle, Null Range is cockpit combat and HALDANE-4 builds dread out of text characters and synthesized sound.

What the judges said

The judges saw a jump in quality. “The vibe coded games this year are much much better than last year, all the judges agree on that,” Levels wrote in his results post. The same post quotes judge @timsoret: “Some of them are getting close to be genuine games.”

Play all five from the Vibe Jam 2026 hub and rate them. On our top rated list, jam placement is only the starting score, and player votes move it from there. Planning your own entry? The vibe coding game jam guide covers the rules and a plan.