Blog

Site News, Editorial, And Behind-The-Scenes From The HDII Team.

I Like the Opinions of Other Humans

AI gives polished answers. But I want the aggregated opinion of thousands of people who actually played the game. The better AI gets, the more valuable raw human data becomes.

6/2/2026·2 min read·Read post →

Development

How I Built the Rankings Page

The rankings page is the most visited page on HDII and the first thing many users see. For a while, it was also the slowest. Here is how I fixed it.

5/20/2026·3 min read·Read post →

Site News

HDII Migration Is Complete

HDII has migrated to a new backend with better SEO support. Search engines can now properly index game pages, and social media previews work correctly.

3/31/2025·1 min read·Read post →

Site News

HDII Launches!

HowDifficultIsIt.com is live. A crowd-sourced difficulty rating site where players vote on how hard games actually are.

11/12/2024·1 min read·Read post →