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24 alternatives to Regression Games - Alpha Cup

Compete in an AI/bot Minecraft tournament! $1900 in prizes!

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Regression Games - Alpha Cup launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1BL
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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 →

  3. 3BI
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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 →

  5. 5IB

    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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    Getgud.io▲207

    Making online games toxic free

    2023 · its alternatives →

  7. 7CG

    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 →

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    Game recommendation chatbot powered by GPT-3.5

    2023 · its alternatives →

  9. 9BA
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    An automatic environment to train programming skills

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Play Sokoban in your browser and watch an AI solver crack it. A plain-JS port of a native C++ engine, it returns the provably optimal (fewest-move) solution, entirely client-side.

    25d ago · mkornreich.me · its alternatives →

  12. 12GW
  13. 13ET
  14. 14AI

    A chess engine implementation inspired by AlphaZero, using MLX for neural network computations and Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) for move selection.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  15. 15NA

    I built over the last two years a human-like neural network chess engine that tries to predict your rating from a single game. It automatically adapts to your play and tries to play like a human at your level would play, giving you a balanced game. At the core I’m using an AlphaZero / Leela Chess Zero style neural network that I have trained on 1 billion human games from the lichess.org open database. Around this network I have built a chess engine in Rust with algorithms that use the outputs from the NN to produce human-like moves at a given rating from beginner to world champion, as…

    2022 · noctie.ai · its alternatives →

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    AI powered game creation engine, starts with AI hero battles

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Looking for feedback on this 1v1 and daily word dueling game I've built over the last few months. Play here: https://wordtrak.com/ Or on iOS here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wordtrak/id6760442363 (Android version soon!)

    May 2026 · wordtrak.com · its alternatives →

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    A free-to-play automated strategy game

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    On-chain AI battle royale where 8 lobsters fight

    Mar 2026 · clawking.cc · its alternatives →

  20. 20MM

    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 →

  21. 21AE

    2021 · dfarr.github.io · its alternatives →

  22. 22GC
  23. 23WB

    Hey HN, We’re two developers (co-founders) with a team of 20 who got tired of spending hours reviewing PRs, so we built Infinitcode.ai, an AI-powered code reviewer that: - *Summarizes PRs in plain English*: No more deciphering 1,000-line diff jungles - *Catches more than bugs*: Security holes, performance pitfalls, code smells, even typos (yes, we’ll flag “vurnerabilities” and vulnerabilities) - *Zero onboarding*: Works instantly—no “let me learn your codebase for weeks” nonsense. Why we’re posting: We’re in alpha and need brutal honesty. Roast our tool, mock our UI, or tell us why AI will…

    2025 · infinitcode.ai · its alternatives →

  24. 24DA

    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 →

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