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24 alternatives to The Uber Game
Can you make it in the gig economy?
The Uber Game is an online simulation by the Financial Times where players take on the role of a full-time rideshare driver supporting two children with a $1000 mortgage due within a week. Players must earn enough… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Uber Game launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A peek at the depressing reality of driving for Uber.
2017 · ig.ft.com · its alternatives →
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Where to? See upfront fares & estimated arrival times
2016 · uber.com · its alternatives →
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A browser based, retro sandbox game that let
2021 · simulator.money · its alternatives →
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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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Free browser-based business and economy simulation game. Trade stock, exchange currencies and run your own businesses.
2017 · moneyga.me · its alternatives →
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UberDrive▲21A game to test your navigation skills as an Uber driver.
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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https://www.moneyga.me The goal in this game is to make as much virtual money as possible. Features include working pleb jobs, operating various forms of businesses, trading items, currencies and stocks on The Exchange and so on. I have posted this on HN before, but it has been a couple of years now and some things have changed in the game. Most notably the addition of NPC buyers and NPC workers, which make the economy much more alive. Thank you for your attention and good weekend everybody!
2021 · its alternatives →
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$7 bil: the consumer surplus Uber created.
2016 · its alternatives →
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Uber Driver▲152Help people move; make money on your schedule
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Uber Works▲87Find work that fits your schedule, skills, and interests
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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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…
Feb 2026 · hallucinatingsplines.com · its alternatives →
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Pick up passengers from the town and drive them safely
2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Test your business skills in our virtual investment game
2019 · weown.com · its alternatives →
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StockStream▲108World's first multiplayer stock market game using real money
2017 · its alternatives →
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Beat people up and take their money
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Didi + Uber: the implications for the ride-sharing market
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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