Cycling 318 - A cozy 20-day bike journey across the Himalayas

Cycling 318 is a meditative ride down the real G318 Sichuan–Tibet Highway — Chengdu to Lhasa, 20 days, 20 levels. Every viewpoint becomes a hand-drawn postcard of your own bike and rider. No ads, no IAP pressure. 100% vector art, 7 languages.

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm the solo developer behind Cycling 318. There's a road in China called the G318 — the Sichuan–Tibet Highway, Chengdu to Lhasa. Among cyclists it's a rite of passage: ~2,000km, every pass above 4,000m, three weeks of climbing into the Himalayas. It's the trip a lot of us keep on a bucket list and never quite get to. I'm one of those people. So I built the road instead. Cycling 318 is a cozy, meditative version of that journey. 20 real days became 20 levels — you ride, you stop at viewpoints, you rest by the roadside when you're tired (there's no failure state — if you run out of energy you just push the bike). The whole world is drawn in code: not a single photo texture. Every mountain, every snowflake, every string of prayer flags is procedural vector art, so it stays crisp at any size. There's a real day/night cycle aligned to Tibet's actual sun time (the golden sunset over Lhasa lands around 9pm), tonight's real moon phase in the sky, alpenglow on the snow peaks at dawn, and weather that rolls through — rain, snow, storms, rainbows. The part I'm proudest of: every viewpoint you reach turns into a hand-drawn postcard of *your own* bike and rider, stamped into a passport you fill over the 20 days. You meet other riders on the road and ride with them for a while; you help villagers with small errands; you string prayer flags at the high passes and they're still there next time you pass. It's a game about the journey and small kindnesses, not scores. A few honest notes: it's free, no ads, no IAP pressure (the monetization is purely cosmetic), and it ships in 7 languages. It's iOS for now. What I'd genuinely love feedback on: • Does the cozy/meditative pacing land, or does it drag? • For anyone who's actually ridden the G318 — did the passes and the feeling come through? • The postcard-passport loop — does it make you want to keep going to the next viewpoint? I'll be here all day answering everything. Thank you for taking the ride 🚲🏔️