Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Tradecraft
Play Codenames online with friends.
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. Tradecraft launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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Codin Game▲149Learn and improve your coding skills, while playing games.
2015 · codingame.com · its alternatives →
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BreakBase.com. Play your favorite games, with anyone you
2012 · breakbase.com · its alternatives →
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code:deck▲244Playing cards, for developers, by developers
2015 · varianto25.com · its alternatives →
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Codédex v1.0▲272Codédex is a new way to learn to code for kids and adults alike. Journey through the fantasy land of Python, HTML, CSS, or JavaScript, earn experience points (XP) to unlock new regions, and collect all the badges at your own pace. Start your adventure today.
2025 · codedex.io · its alternatives →
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Official online implementation of the Codenames board game.
2021 · codenames.game · its alternatives →
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Orca▲150Describe a Minecraft mod in plain English and Orca's AI builds it. No coding, free to start. Fabric, Forge, and Bedrock, with a free server to play it on.
Dec 2025 · orcaclient.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · teachcraft.net · its alternatives →
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http://codewords.io/ I've been trying to get permission to run a game of it from the publisher and designer (CGE & Vlaada Chvátil) but I haven't heard back. I've found demonstrating that there's interest in what you're doing is the best way to get ahold of people. So.. Anyone interested in trying a massive game of Codenames over Twitch? Not quite "For Science!" more "For Engineering!" Which, let's be honest here, has a much better ring to it. If you'd like to know more, I put up an FAQ up here: http://codewords.io/faq/ If you'd like to sign up to help,…
2017 · its alternatives →
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Planet Crossword▲110Multiplayer crosswords for streaming and friends
2022 · hovercats.gg · its alternatives →
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Looking for feedback on my project to teach python by writing code that interacts with a Minecraft World.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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CodinGame is a challenge-based training platform for programmers where you can play with the hottest programming topics. Solve games, code AI bots, learn from your peers, have fun.
2017 · tech.io · its alternatives →
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Wordbots is a long-running side project I've been working on on-and-off for the past ~7 years that I finally feel comfortable enough with to share with the HN community. It's an online tactical card game (inspired by games like Hearthstone and Magic: the Gathering), where players write their own cards in natural language, that gets parsed down to JavaScript. The English-to-JavaScript translation is handled by a semantic parser operating on a hand-crafted CCG grammar – kind of an “old-school” approach in this age of LLMs but one that performs quite well on the very constrained language of…
2023 · app.wordbots.io · its alternatives →
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Social board games with friends over video chat.
2020 · cyberspaces.app · its alternatives →
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A new dimension to the classic crossword game
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · webblocks.uk · its alternatives →
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Code Kingdoms▲104Learn to code with Minecraft and Roblox. Ages 8-14
2015 · codekingdoms.com · its alternatives →
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Create and share simple web demos using TypeScript, CSS, and HTML. Prototype new ideas quickly.
2017 · codewich.com · its alternatives →
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Play a challenging word game - anytime, anywhere!
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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