Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to AI town
A virtual town where AI characters live, chat & socialize
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. AI town launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi HN community! We want to share AI-town, a deployable starter kit for building and customizing your own version of AI simulation - a virtual town where AI characters live, chat and socialize. Inspired by great work from the Stanford Generative Agent paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442). A few features: - Includes a convex.dev backed server-side game engine that handles global state - Multiplayer ready. Deployment ready - 100% Typescript - Easily customizable. You can fork it, change character memories, add new sprites/tiles and you have a custom AI simulation…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Character AI▲393Building the next generation of conversational AI
2023 · character.ai · its alternatives →
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Talkie AI▲284The most immersive experience with all your dream characters
2024 · talkie-ai.com · its alternatives →
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Conversation API▲275Build chatbots with memory using just an API
Jan 2026 · amarsia.com · its alternatives →
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This is a weekend project that spiraled out of control. I was originally trying to get Claude to play a ROM of the SNES SimCity. I struggled with it and that led me to Micropolis (the open-sourced SimCity engine) and was able to get it to work by bolting on an API. The weekend hack turned into a headless city simulation platform where anyone can get an API key (no signup) and have their AI agent play mayor. The simulation runs the real Micropolis engine inside Cloudflare Durable Objects, one per city. Every city is public and browsable on the site. LLMs are awful at the spatial stuff, which…
Feb 2026 · hallucinatingsplines.com · its alternatives →
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Build powerful conversational AI agents
2024 · yourgpt.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, I've been hacking on this idea with a friend as we've been using chatgpt and other AI tools in our day to day work and find ourselves copy/pasting to each other frequently. We often share chatgpt links with each other, but it's been frustrating that they are read-only and we can't pickup the conversation or both talk to an LLM with shared context. We built a shared chatroom to explore what it'd be like to talk with multiple LLMs and humans in the same chat, and so far it feels pretty cool, but we're curious if anyone else would find it useful as well. Right now you can: -…
2025 · chord.chat · its alternatives →
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AI Collective▲109Smart frontend for ChatGPT & other AIs
2023 · getaicollective.in · its alternatives →
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Voiced AI characters - make AI art and adventure together
2023 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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I made this experimental art project/game that's an LLM chat assistant, but where you're the AI. I wanted people to get a visceral sense of what it's like to answer the kinds of things that people prompt their chatbots day in and day out. If you're interested, I wrote up some more info on how I made it, including how the "user" prompts are generated with an eye for realism: https://bethechatbot.com/about Hope you enjoy it! I'd love to hear people's takeaways.
Jul 2026 · bethechatbot.com · its alternatives →
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Enjoy private or group chat with various AI based on ChatGPT
2023 · its alternatives →
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Building on the concept of generative agents and the success of c.ai, we created Simtown.ai, a 2D NPC simulation where each NPC leverages OpenAI APIs to plan, act, reflect, and adapt. The gameplay is dynamic and immersive—NPCs can move, talk, and idle in scenarios like Harry Potter Town or perform role-specific actions such as voting, giving speeches, and listening in Election Town [https://app.simtown.ai/electiontown]. We’re currently working on features like saving and loading game states, allowing users to create their own NPCs, and enabling user-personas to evolve over…
2024 · app.simtown.ai · its alternatives →
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Funfun.ai▲17Chat with Realistic AI Characters through Texts and Images
2024 · funfun.ai · its alternatives →
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ai chat, ai bot, character ai
2024 · linke.ai · its alternatives →
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Chat with AI characters. Solve mysteries. Explore stories.
2025 · its alternatives →
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