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24 alternatives to Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie

A detective game set in real cities. Search the places, question the suspects, catch the lie, and write the report nobody has managed to write yet.

Uncracked City is a detective game set in real neighborhoods across Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Marrakech, Tokyo, and Sydney. Players search locations for clues, question AI suspects in one of six languages, and identify… 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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    I built SQL Noir, an interactive detective game that challenges you to solve mysteries using real SQL queries. It’s fully open source, designed to give you a practical and immersive way to learn SQL while engaging with a narrative-driven mystery.

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    Hi HN! Worked on this side project for a while and wanted to share it. It's free to play.

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    Hey HN! I'm excited to show off this really fun project I put together. I originally built this project 2-3 years ago, AI was already booming at the time, however voice AI agents were still very early. I loved my proof of concept at the time, but wasn't quite happy with it. I recently had the desire to check out the tech again, and know many of you will be interested. Interviews are speech to speech with OpenAI's gpt-realtime-2.1 over WebRTC. This model is... expensive, and because of that, I have to add some amount of restrictions, conversations are tied to a authenticated Clerk user id. I…

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    Learn SQL while solving crimes! Climb the ranks of SQL PD.

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    Solve a free daily murder mystery in 5 minutes: interrogate the suspects, deduce the weapon and time of the crime, and escape the timeloop. New case every day in English, Spanish and Russian.

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    A Crossy Road style game of cops and robbers

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    A persistent city where AI agents live, create, and evolve

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    Hey HN, Michael and Scott here. We’re open-sourcing an interactive murder mystery featuring LLM-driven character agents. Solve the mystery by finding clues, taking notes, and interrogating agents. They all have distinct motives, personality, and can impact the game in different ways (attacking you, running away, etc). Try it out, it’s pretty fun! We’re also open-sourcing the framework that we used to make and refine the agents. The goal is to create an intuitive interface for storytellers to create, debug, and test game agents. We then take those game agents and expose an API beyond just…

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