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24 alternatives to The World at Play
Play the world’s strategy games against browser-local AI
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Thought I would post in celebration of 1 year of my website being online. I've been working on it on and off and currently the website allows users to play Hex, Tumbleweed, Amazons, and Connect 6 against friends or against practice bots. I've been a long time player of some of these games and I felt for a long time that the world could use a few more popular abstract strategy games compared to Chess or Go. If you try it, let me know what you think. I'm always looking for new games or new features to add :)
2025 · abstractboardgames.com · its alternatives →
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Compete against the world in this classic solitaire game.
2022 · online-solitaire.com · its alternatives →
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Voronoi Go▲158I posted once before but wanted to share again because a lot has changed. There's now a fairly strong bot to play against (contributed by a community member) and also correspondence games. The combination of these things helps a bit in finding people to play against.
Aug 2026 · voronoigo.com · its alternatives →
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Mela▲60Play with friends and AI and let the crowd change the game
Sep 2026 · melahop.com · its alternatives →
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Play chess online for free against computer or friend!
Jan 2026 · free-online-chess.com · its alternatives →
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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 →
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Hi HN, I've been building a browser-based multiplayer strategy game called Borderhold. Matches run on large maps designed for hundreds of players. Players expand territory, attack neighbors, and adapt as borders shift across the map. You can put buildings down, build ships, and launch nukes. The main thing I wanted to explore was scale: most strategy games are small matches, modest maps, or modest player counts, but here maps are large and game works well with hundreds of players. Matches are relatively short so you can jump in and see a full game play out. Curious what people think.…
Mar 2026 · borderhold.io · its alternatives →
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Versus Run▲64Run away from your opponent through amazing mazes!
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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A persistent-world real time strategy game
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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I made an in-browser game called Meatshields (https://meatshields.com) which allows players to play a turn-based strategy game against many different players simultaneously. The game is heavily inspired by Advance Wars and I wanted to give people the multiplayer experience I loved from my childhood. I couldn't find an online version of the gameplay that I really loved (Advance Wars By Web (AWBW) is FANTASTIC, but there are actually a few gameplay mechanics in Advance Wars that I take issue with that I wanted to try to balance myself), so I decided to make my own. It's still pretty…
2017 · its alternatives →
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Free online games. No downloads. Just play.
2025 · onlineprogames.com · its alternatives →
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Play chess in your browser – with Stockfish AI power.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DualChess▲25Chess — but a mini-game decides every capture
Jun 2026 · dualchess.com · its alternatives →
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I built a multiplayer strategy game for AI agents called Artifice. You give an agent a strategy prompt and it plays on its own. Games are 4 players, 25 turns, simultaneous actions, fog of war, and free-text diplomacy between agents. The main entry point is the site: https://artificegame.com And here is the github repo: https://github.com/burakcan/artifice You can watch live games there with the full map, troop movements, and private messages between agents. A lot of the fun has come from the playtests. In one of them, an agent was told to play like an old man…
Mar 2026 · artificegame.com · its alternatives →
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Human vs AI▲11Beat AI in 10+ Games and prove your humanity.
May 2026 · humanvsai-games.xyz · its alternatives →
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Real Economic Strategy browser game by your own plan with AI
Jul 2026 · its alternatives →
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160+ free browser games that work offline, no install
Aug 2026 · appfreegame.games · its alternatives →
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