Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Windowisp
Launch any Pet in Codex into a game mode on your desktop
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 created an extension which adds a custom pet to your editor (Cursor/ VS Code/ Windsurf compatible). https://github.com/blairjordan/codachi As you type, your pet hatches, acquires XP and evolves. A playing card is generated when your pet evolves. All pixel art is original and hand/ mouse drawn.
2025 · its alternatives →
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Codex Pets▲287Animated companions for your Codex workflow
May 2026 · learn.chatgpt.com · its alternatives →
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tama96▲141Inspired by the 1996 original. Your care choices shape who your pet becomes.
Apr 2026 · tama96.com · its alternatives →
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ZumiGames▲238Your AI pet with a mind (and adventures) of its own
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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An infinite runner in your terminal. Contribute to smallhadroncollider/ascii-runner development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Mini Pets▲87Digital pet game where you raise a cute virtual pet slime
2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
- 7VP
2019 · bsawyer.github.io · its alternatives →
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Windowframe▲90A game where you manipulate the window to fight vampires
2016 · managore.itch.io · its alternatives →
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Viberia▲146Hey HN, This is my take on the agent harness. Everything on an isometric map. Agents are grouped into "buildings" that run in a sequence or a loop; e.g., the CodeForge has an agent that writes a PRD, another one that implements, and a third that reviews. Everything is customizable, you build your own buildings/teams however you want. It's a Tauri app, really light (about 8x less energy than the closest competitor I benchmarked, so it actually runs from a coffee shop on battery). It's macOS only for now, but ping me if you are willing to test the Windows or Linux version. I've been…
May 2026 · getviberia.com · its alternatives →
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SanctuaryRPG▲72A humorous and strategic turn-based ASCII dungeon crawler.
2015 · sanctuaryrpg.com · its alternatives →
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Codex now runs natively on Windows with secure sandbox
Mar 2026 · learn.chatgpt.com · its alternatives →
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Dino Run DX▲66Escape extinction in the prehistoric dinosaur proto-runner
2016 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Clock mini▲100Tiny Tanks brings quick desktop battles to macOS: patrol to earn gold, upgrade range/cooldown/repair speed, and jump into fast fights in seconds.
2018 · airwolfspace.com · its alternatives →
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CursorBird▲11Hi HN! Creator of CursorBird here. I've recently built and published a fun side project I think you might enjoy: It's a simple Cursor extension that lets you play a flappy bird clone while the agents are running. It uses Cursor's hook system to detect agent activity: the game automatically opens when an agent starts working and closes when all agents finish. Press Tab to flap. 100% open source. Repo: https://github.com/i-am-noamg/cursorbird Install: https://open-vsx.org/extension/cursorbird/cursor-bird or from Cursor's extensions search It started…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DoDoo▲54Make productivity fun, grow a pet, and stay accountable
2025 · trydodoo.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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Turn your pet into pixel-art and custom AI portraits
Aug 2026 · codexpetgenerator.com · its alternatives →
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Bring joy, motion, and a touch of magic to your desktop!
Dec 2025 · desktoys.lovehealth.space · its alternatives →
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I made a thing this afternoon. If you are using windows 10 and would like to open windows apps from the ubuntu bash shell normally you can't do that. I wrote this app to (sorta) let you do that. It's a two part app, first is a dotnet core webapi C# app that runs on your windows box. Next is a shell script that you put in your path on the ubuntu shell. It's called Rockhopper (named after a species of penguin, since you are hopping form Linux to windows with this app is just seemed like the right name :) ), and you invoke it like this: rockhopper -c code -a…
2016 · its alternatives →
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All games are playable in the browser, and were written in the past month in AGC/Macro1 assembler, with the source code available on Github: https://github.com/1888games/2048_Apollo https://github.com/1888games/2DMaze_AGC https://github.com/1888games/1nvader-PDP-1
2023 · itch.io · its alternatives →
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