AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Basilisk
A novel game where you battle an AI-enabled snake.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Basilisk launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1GW
2013 · robotgame.org · its alternatives →
- 2MS
2013 · hipstersnake.com · its alternatives →
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Voronoi Go▲155I posted once before but wanted to share again because a lot has changed. There's now a fairly strong bot to play against (contributed by a community member) and also correspondence games. The combination of these things helps a bit in finding people to play against.
14d ago · voronoigo.com · its alternatives →
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ClawKing▲93On-chain AI battle royale where 8 lobsters fight
Mar 2026 · clawking.cc · its alternatives →
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In browser PPO training demo, made possible by tinygrad: TinyJit -> WebGPU kernels. Requires WebGPU.
May 2026 · ppo.gradexp.xyz · its alternatives →
- 6IB
It's a web app that uses AI to turn any book into a playable text adventure. Your favorite book, but your choices, hence your story. You can even "remix" the genre like playing Dune as a noir detective story. Note: Work in progress. Suggestions are welcome.
2025 · kathaaverse.com · its alternatives →
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An automatic environment to train programming skills
2018 · its alternatives →
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- 10DA
over the past couple months, i've picked up an old project around writing AI in python. the premise is to code a strategy for an AI player to use in a simplified RTS game. the AI basically takes the seat of a human player and the human codes its brain. main site: http://okayzed.github.com/dmangame/introduction.html app engine server and match archive that runs and hosts games: http://dmangame-app.appspot.com github: http://github.com/okayzed/dmangame more AI: http://github.com/okayzed/dmanai i'm looking for players, comments, ideas, etc - thanks!
2011 · its alternatives →
- 11SO
2012 · snaketron.com · its alternatives →
- 12MS
2013 · piwh1000.github.io · its alternatives →
- 13PS
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 14CG
Wordbots is a long-running side project I've been working on on-and-off for the past ~7 years that I finally feel comfortable enough with to share with the HN community. It's an online tactical card game (inspired by games like Hearthstone and Magic: the Gathering), where players write their own cards in natural language, that gets parsed down to JavaScript. The English-to-JavaScript translation is handled by a semantic parser operating on a hand-crafted CCG grammar – kind of an “old-school” approach in this age of LLMs but one that performs quite well on the very constrained language of…
2023 · app.wordbots.io · its alternatives →
- 15SO
2016 · tinyurl.com · its alternatives →
- 164A
2019 · xojoc.pw · its alternatives →
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- 18SG
2015 · inaka.net · its alternatives →
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- 20QS
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 22WS
Dec 2025 · wordsnake.co · its alternatives →
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Robot Rumble▲19Fast-paced mobile card battles with chaotic combos
Nov 2025 · robotrumblegame.com · its alternatives →
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