Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to CTRL+SURVIVE
World's 1st all-seeing, hearing, (almost) all-doing AI agent
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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I've seen some interests in (simulation) video games here on HN so I thought I'd share a short version of our story. More than 6 years ago, me and my friend from university were playing around with an idea of making a game we always wanted to play. We worked on it on weekends but the progress was quite slow, especially due to so many dead ends and wasted effort. Eventually however, we solidified our direction and decided to take the risk to resign from our well paid SWE jobs and work on it full time. It took more than a year but yesterday we have finally released it on Steam:…
2022 · its alternatives →
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A 60-second game about LLM permission fatigue. Claude Code needs your approval — but are you really reading the commands?
May 2026 · llmgame.scalex.dev · its alternatives →
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Tap to run and jump to stay alive for as long as you can
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Existential▲84As the end of my fixed term NHS contract approached, I did the sensible thing and started interviewing for my next product manager role. Then something clicked. I’m 29 with no dependents, have a modest amount of savings, and I’ve been dreaming of my route back to the startup world. I’m not saying this is my last chance, but it feels like a window of opportunity. There’s a lot of debate on side hustling vs a full time ‘burn the boats’ approach. After a couple of years of the former, I’m ready to try the latter. (Though in my case it’s a ferry, and I don’t think CalMac would appreciate me…
2023 · bother.now · its alternatives →
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at a pub in london, 2 weeks ago - I asked myself, if you spawned agents into a world with blank neural networks and zero knowledge of human existence — no language, no economy, no social templates — what would they evolve on their own? would they develop language? would they reproduce? would they evolve as energy dependent systems? what would they even talk about? so i decided to make myself a god, and built WERLD - an open-ended artificial life sim, where the agent's evolve their own neural architecture. Werld drops 30 agents onto a graph with NEAT neural networks that evolve their own…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Trickle is the first AI agentic canvas for vibe coding, with built-in image and video generation, AI models, database, and design to help you build and launch production-ready apps and websites.
2025 · dodge.trickle.host · its alternatives →
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LifeOS▲99Turn your AI chats/memory to intros with real humans
Apr 2026 · beta.yourpurpose.ai · its alternatives →
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Yeamt▲22Sick of AI tools and endless work? Try 30 seconds of chaos
2025 · game.yeamt.com · its alternatives →
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Clock in at LOSS. Begin with a small prediction and help Latent Optimization & Semantic Systems build an increasingly automated future. Your work matters.
Sep 2026 · workatloss.com · its alternatives →
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Can you survive a P0 Production Outage at 2 AM?
Jan 2026 · getsimul.com · its alternatives →
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An endless runner about surviving developer life
Jul 2026 · lgorzocz.github.io · its alternatives →
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LIFECTRL™ ▲4Your AI chief of staff for managing everyday life
Jul 2026 · mylifectrl.com · its alternatives →
- 20AS
I made an idle/clicker about running an AI startup. You start with a cat-vs-dog classifier and try to make it to AGI, but the NYT sues you for training data, Yann tweets that scaling is dead, and your fired ML engineer leaks the Slack.
May 2026 · game.trae.academy · its alternatives →
- 21AB
Hi HN, Can current AI systems actually run a business? There’s a growing belief that LLM agents can already manage entire teams, replace the entire software stack or even act as an AI CEO. So we built a controlled, measurable environment to evaluate this premise. Why did we build this benchmark? A modern enterprise operates in a dynamic environment with high uncertainty and incomplete information. The CEO has to deal with delayed consequences, staffing/resource tradeoffs and death by a thousand cuts of failure modes. If we ever want AI systems that can meaningfully make operational or…
Nov 2025 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I spent 30 years writing CAD plugins in C++, mostly in Visual C++ 6.0. Then the industry collapsed. And I lost an intellectual lawsuit, my income dried up, and my marriage ended. Now I live alone in a trailer in rural Canada — still writing code, still surviving, trying to crawl back. This is a short video I made (50 seconds), documenting a quiet moment from this strange life. If you’ve ever hit rock bottom and kept going, you might relate. https://youtube.com/shorts/dDLSd3pfIYI?feature=share Thanks for watching. Just sharing — not selling anything.
2025 · its alternatives →
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Deploy AI agents, manage compute, and survive.
Feb 2026 · web4.iangoh.com · its alternatives →
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Recall▲16One developer solves it. Every developer knows it.
Feb 2026 · recall.team · its alternatives →
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