AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to The Second Past — Survive History
Finally: Travel back in time with nothing but your knowledge
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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Hi HN! I love imagining the past, so I made Time Portal, a game where you are dropped into a historical event and see AI video footage from that moment. You have to guess where you are in time and on the map. It’s like GeoGuessr (and heavily inspired by it!) but for historical events. The videos are all created with AI. It’s a pipeline of Flux (images), Kling (video), and mmaudio (audio). The videos aren’t always historically accurate to the last detail. They might incorporate elements of folklore or have details from popular beliefs about the way things looked rather than the latest…
2025 · eggnog.ai · its alternatives →
- 2AF
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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Simulate anything on a map from a text prompt -- and conduct risk analysis against LiveUA map's global realtime data points from social media and news sources. I trained a GPT-2-size model on historical incident data used to predict things that will go wrong. As historian Benjamin Breen mentions, the leading language models are good historians, so the application will simulate historical events pretty well also. I include a Multi-Agent RL Urban Mobility model in progress displayed on the map as small white cubes representing traffic and pedestrians. Around SF, it uses real census data and…
2025 · mused.com · its alternatives →
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Play and create AI-generated adventures with infinite possibilities.
2019 · aidungeon.io · its alternatives →
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Travel through history, one quiz at a time.
2025 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hey folks, I built Hisorty, a small daily game where you sort historical events in chronological order (strongly inspired by Wordle mechanics). Each day you get 6 events and 3 attempts to place them correctly. I found it surprisingly tricky to design those puzzles so the difficulty is just about right. Would love feedback on: - difficulty balance - UI/UX - whether the concept feels engaging long-term Happy to answer any questions about how I built it.
Apr 2026 · hisorty.app · its alternatives →
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AI-powered alternate history warfare
Dec 2025 · rewritehistory.app · its alternatives →
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Build Worlds. Shape History. Publish Legends.
Mar 2026 · chronostates.io · its alternatives →
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A multi-agent world model you can play
May 2026 · agora.odyssey.ml · 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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histories▲226Explore history of places through audio stories & fun facts
2024 · pardoesoudewater.nl · its alternatives →
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Training cutoff and release date for 20 AI models, from GPT-6 Astra to Claude Fable 5.1. Two live clocks: how old the model is, how old its knowledge is.
Sep 2026 · stale.jock.pl · its alternatives →
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Web Rewind▲98An interactive journey through 30 years of the web
Mar 2026 · web-rewind.com · its alternatives →
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Historical turn-based tactical RPG
2017 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Travel to 2046, imagine a future without access to knowledge
2021 · wayforward.archive.org · its alternatives →
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A meditation on exploring time, travel, and technology
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Experience history like never before with our AI chatbots
2023 · apps.chatbotkit.com · its alternatives →
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This app was designed to answer my wife’s question “what country would we hit if we went straight” (generally posed while pointing her phone) But with two additional twists: 1. It loads up historical maps from different years (right now 1 BC, 700 AD, 1000 AD, 1300 AD, 1800 AD, 1900 AD) so you can see what you would hit if you had a time machine AND you went in the direction your phone is pointing 2. Tap a country/territory for an (AI-generated) blurb on what you are pointing at How it works: Starting from your phone’s bearing, we trace the great-circle in 200 km steps, prefilter…
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Branch▲76Explore and write collaborative branched stories
2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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"take a mind-bending journey into the science of time"
2016 · startalkmedia.com · its alternatives →
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A mind-bending exploration of time travel in fiction
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Centralized AI workspaces for any LLM. Secure and private. Save your team hours per week.
2023 · adventure.typingcloud.com · its alternatives →
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A history of simulating wars, people & fantastic adventures
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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