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24 alternatives to The Last Ruse
The city streets are packed with ISIS guys. Save the city!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Last Ruse launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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This is a weekend project that spiraled out of control. I was originally trying to get Claude to play a ROM of the SNES SimCity. I struggled with it and that led me to Micropolis (the open-sourced SimCity engine) and was able to get it to work by bolting on an API. The weekend hack turned into a headless city simulation platform where anyone can get an API key (no signup) and have their AI agent play mayor. The simulation runs the real Micropolis engine inside Cloudflare Durable Objects, one per city. Every city is public and browsable on the site. LLMs are awful at the spatial stuff, which…
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Control guns... with the power of thoughts & prayers!
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Unwinding from a long week by shooting people
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They're invading Washington! Smash them before inauguration!
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It's time for you to gather all free people of the country.
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