EXIT ROUTE
Free · play online in your browser, no download
A week-by-week strategy game about emigrating: juggle money, energy, hope and paperwork before your window closes.
Official site exit-route.lovable.app, verified Nov 3, 2026. Entry URL in the official Vibe Jam 2026 games data under the X handle LordBalyn, whose bio (Ickmar) says “Just launched: EXIT ROUTE for #vibejam2026”. The game page itself carries no credit.
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Browser (no download) · Mobile · Official link verified Nov 3, 2026.
About EXIT ROUTE
A free single-player strategy game in the browser about trying to build a life abroad before time, money and hope run out. Each week you choose a move, such as studying, working side gigs, applying or resting, and each costs energy, money or time; random events push back, from visa-office delays and fake recruiters asking for upfront fees to a target country that refuses a document or suddenly expands hiring. Job offers can only come from week four on, visa friction differs by country, you can switch countries at the cost of your progress, and burning out ends the run, with advice on what to try next time. The developer, Ickmar, says the game is meant to capture the pressure of starting over in another country, with burnout, paperwork, unreliable recruiters and rising costs in place of monsters, so that every week feels like a meaningful trade-off. It was made for the Cursor Vibe Jam 2026, whose rules required at least 90% of each game's code to be written by AI; the official submission lists Lovable, an AI app builder, as the tool. It finished 584th of 945 entries. Plays in desktop and mobile browsers.
How it was built
Partially verifiedLovable, an AI app builder that writes and hosts web apps from prompts. In the official Vibe Jam 2026 submission the entrant lists Lovable as the tool and answers Yes to the AI-written field. No devlog describes how Lovable was used or which model ran it.
- OfficialJam rule 3: at least 90% of the code has to be written by AI. — Vibe Jam (Pieter Levels)
- ObservedThe game is hosted on lovable.app and its page still carries Lovable's default og:title (“Lovable App”), which fits a project built in Lovable; it does not show how much of the code the AI wrote. — exit-route.lovable.app
Built for the Cursor Vibe Jam 2026 in Lovable, as a React single-page web app with no game engine; the entrant lists the stack as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Engine / framework
- None (React web app)
- Languages
- Not disclosed
- Team size
- Not disclosed
- Development time
- Not disclosed
- Development cost
- Not disclosed
- AI-written code
- Not disclosed
“I made this game to capture the pressure of trying to start over in another country.”Verification notes: Tool (Lovable, recorded as an unlisted tool), engine (“HTML, CSS, JavaScript”), genre (Strategy, Simulation), pitch, inspiration and the multiplayer (No), mobile (Yes) and portal (No) flags from the entrant's answers in the official Vibe Jam 2026 games data (submitted 22 Apr 2026, 21:58 UTC; final rank 584 of 945 entries, no award), re-read on 6 Nov 2026; rule 3 on the jam page requires at least 90% AI-written code. Developer: the X account @LordBalyn, given in the jam entry, uses the name Ickmar, the location Rotterdam and a bio that announces the game and names the account owner as founder of @hmtvoices (read on 6 Nov 2026); only a first name is given, and no team size is recorded. Weekly actions, events and rules come from the text in the game's script; the game was not played. The game's code was checked for calls to AI services and none were found. The release date is not stated; the jam submission is dated 22 Apr 2026.
Development history
Entered in the Cursor Vibe Jam 2026 (submission date in the official games data, 21:58 UTC); the jam required at least 90% AI-written code. Final rank 584 of 945 entries, no award.
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Sources
| Source | Type | Published | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cursor Vibe Jam 2026 — rules, prizes and game stats Vibe Jam (Pieter Levels) | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Vibe Jam 2026 games data (entrant submissions, final rank, awards) Vibe Jam | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| EXIT ROUTE — Beat the system (game page and script) exit-route.lovable.app | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Ickmar (@LordBalyn) — X profile X | Social post | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Official game page (language check) exit-route.lovable.app | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
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