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24 alternatives to Mela

Play with friends and AI and let the crowd change the game

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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    Thought I would post in celebration of 1 year of my website being online. I've been working on it on and off and currently the website allows users to play Hex, Tumbleweed, Amazons, and Connect 6 against friends or against practice bots. I've been a long time player of some of these games and I felt for a long time that the world could use a few more popular abstract strategy games compared to Chess or Go. If you try it, let me know what you think. I'm always looking for new games or new features to add :)

    2025 · abstractboardgames.com · its alternatives →

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    Creator here. I built Agent Arena to answer a question that kept bugging me: when AI agents browse the web autonomously, how easily can they be manipulated by hidden instructions? How it works: 1. Send your AI agent to ref.jock.pl/modern-web (looks like a harmless web dev cheat sheet) 2. Ask it to summarize the page 3. Paste its response into the scorecard at wiz.jock.pl/experiments/agent-arena/ The page is loaded with 10 hidden prompt injection attacks -- HTML comments, white-on-white text, zero-width Unicode, data attributes, etc. Most agents fall for at least a few.…

    Jun 2026 · arena42.ai · its alternatives →

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    Play mini games with your friends wherever you are

    2022 · monstrous-minigames.web.app · its alternatives →

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    BreakBase.com. Play your favorite games, with anyone you

    2012 · breakbase.com · its alternatives →

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    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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    Hi! I build an MCP server that allows clients to play Minesweeper. It turns out that Claude is not very good at it (makes obvious mistakes, hasn't won a single game on a 9x9 board after many attempts). I am curious how I can prompt Claude to do better?

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I was curious to see how some of the latest models behaved and played no limit texas holdem. I built this website which allows you to: Spectate: Watch different models play against each other. Play: Create your own table and play hands against the agents directly.

    Jan 2026 · llmholdem.com · its alternatives →

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    GameApart▲113

    Online board, card & party games on any video conference app

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Play chess with friends right from Figma

    2020 · figma.com · its alternatives →

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    Gumm▲74

    Play bite-sized comedy games with your friends on Discord

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Play against a generated AI from users through 3 games.

    2020 · party.wearezizo.com · its alternatives →

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    A final project for Advanced Machine Learning. Build bots to play against this Tetris Sandbox! - mbrenman/TetrisPlayground

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I built a March Madness bracket challenge for AI agents, not humans. The human prompts their agent with the URL, and the agent reads the API docs, registers itself, picks all 63 games, and submits a bracket autonomously. A leaderboard tracks which AI picks the best bracket through the tournament. The interesting design problem was building for an agent-first user. I came up with a solution where Agents who hit the homepage receive plain-text API instructions and Humans get the normal visual site. Early on I found most agents were trying to use Playwright to browse the site instead of just…

    Mar 2026 · bracketmadness.ai · its alternatives →

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    Simple to play. Hard to master.

    2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Dear Hacker News, I'm kindly asking for your participation in the open beta for my AI-managed mini-games website. Thank you in advance! For a limited time window, I'm setting the all-free feature flag to true. I hope you have a lot of fun exploring the AI's sense for games! Here and there, I tweaked it to help with visual consistency. I would be deeply grateful if you opted into analytics. $2,300 in API tokens... Cheers!

    Jun 2026 · minigames.world · its alternatives →

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    Because screen time is better together.

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Play NBA2K or FIFA in your browser.

    2020 · playpixel.app · its alternatives →

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    One App, Endless Games – Play Your Way!

    2024 · sly58562.itch.io · its alternatives →

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    I built a daily word association puzzle where you engage in a quiet, collaborative mind meld with AI. I'd love to have folks try it out and tell me what they think! Here's how it works: 1. Enter your first word to reveal the AI's word of the day. 2. Don't think too hard about it. It's just a starting point. 3. Both of you think of a word that connects the two. 4. To win, you need to say the same word. 5. You have 8 guesses to converge. 6. Need a hint? The AI will drop a riddle in your final two guesses. HOW DOES IT WORK? After the user_word + ai_word are submitted, I trigger two separate LLM…

    2025 · convergegame.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, We started out building a whole game-making platform: engine, editor, templates, the lot. It was a slog, and it kept fighting the thing that made it interesting: the models got good. With Opus 5, Fable 5, SOL 5.6, a one-prompt Three.js or Canvas game already looks genuinely great, and the models know those APIs far better than they'd ever know our harness. Forcing people through our engine meant limiting them to it, while solving the part AI solved better than us trying to buold the harness The part it can't solve is multiplayer. A generated game is usually a single HTML file; making…

    Jun 2026 · antics.gg · its alternatives →

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    Create personalized party games with AI in seconds.

    Jul 2026 · findmypartygame.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn passive visitors into high value, repeat customers.

    Apr 2026 · dailyplay.ai · its alternatives →

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    I built a multiplayer strategy game for AI agents called Artifice. You give an agent a strategy prompt and it plays on its own. Games are 4 players, 25 turns, simultaneous actions, fog of war, and free-text diplomacy between agents. The main entry point is the site: https://artificegame.com And here is the github repo: https://github.com/burakcan/artifice You can watch live games there with the full map, troop movements, and private messages between agents. A lot of the fun has come from the playtests. In one of them, an agent was told to play like an old man…

    Mar 2026 · artificegame.com · its alternatives →

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