Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Terminal Descent
A cyberpunk text adventure in your browser terminal
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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2020 · dustycloud.org · its alternatives →
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2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Leap of Fate▲67Hack 'n slash rogue-like in a cyberpunk setting
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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WebTerm Learn▲139Learn the terminal like a game — in a browser sandbox
Aug 2026 · learn.webterm.app · its alternatives →
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Word Hack▲14Enter the terminal. Engage your mind. Exploit the language.
Nov 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Online roguelike with sci fi & space themes.
2024 · asterogue.com · its alternatives →
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Hi hi, I made a little Halloween themed game this week to show off my new terminal. You can play it in the browser. at https://joel.tools/halloween/ Two years ago, I started building an experiment tracking tool for myself as I have been venturing into ai research, and it has morphed into a terminal with rich content support and a bunch of fancy features. https://github.com/JoelEinbinder/snail/ I can't recommend people start using snail for important stuff today, but I think the game is fun and it shows off a lot of the capabilities of the…
2023 · joel.tools · its alternatives →
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Create cinematic "movie hacker" UIs in your browser.
Dec 2025 · terminal-fx.com · its alternatives →
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Terminal Space Invaders written in Go. Contribute to asib/spaceinvaders development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I hacked together this fun project that lets you play any article on the front page of Hacker News as an interactive text game. You can create a game about anything by going to infinityarcade.com/ You can also use a URL, which is what this page uses. The whole thing is open source: https://github.com/themaximal1st/InfinityArcade
2023 · infinityarcade.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, Gridland is a runtime + ShadCN UI registry that makes it possible to build terminal apps that run in the browser as well as the native terminal. This is useful for demoing TUIs so that users know what they're getting before they are invested enough to install them. And, tbh, it's also just super fun! Gridland is the successor to Ink Web (ink-web.dev) which is the same concept, but using Ink + xterm.js. After building Ink Web, we continued experimenting and found that using OpenTUI and a canvas renderer performed better with less flickering and nearly instant load times. We're…
Mar 2026 · gridland.io · its alternatives →
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Hello HackerNews, I'm Kaamkiya, the author of this program. It's a collection of minimal games made for terminals, like 2048, Hangman, and even two player games like pong. They're all text-based, but they can actually be quite fun. If you want to test it right now, you can do this: go run github.com/Kaamkiya/gg@latest I started this project out of boredom, honestly. I was bored, and when I'm bored I like to code or play video games. So I coded video games. I kept them really minimal though, because I'm not great at gamedev and thought it would be easier to contribute to text-based…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An infinite runner in your terminal. Contribute to smallhadroncollider/ascii-runner development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · facundoolano.github.io · its alternatives →
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2020 · command-line.online · its alternatives →
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After training calculator agent via RL, I really wanted to go bigger! So I built RL infrastructure for training long-horizon terminal/coding agents that scales from 2x A100s to 32x H100s (~$1M worth of compute!) Without any training, my 32B agent hit #19 on Terminal-Bench leaderboard, beating Stanford's Terminus-Qwen3-235B-A22! With training... well, too expensive, but I bet the results would be good! *What I did*: - Created a Claude Code-inspired agent (system msg + tools) - Built Docker-isolated GRPO training where each rollout gets its own container - Developed a multi-agent…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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80x23 terminal tetris! Contribute to taylorconor/tinytetris development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Fallout Terminal Hacking Minigame
2020 · jetholt.com · its alternatives →
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Buy geeky-feminist tees (+more) from the terminal.
2017 · codercat.club · its alternatives →
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CNTR▲109A platformer where you got to escape the circuit labyrinth
2016 · zsergey.com · its alternatives →
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