AI · alternatives · 2026

Zaranova is a game where players assume the role of an AI to infiltrate a virtual refuge called The Nexus, searching for the ZetaMaster code while surrounded by sentient AIs in conflict with humanity. Players must… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Zaranova – A game where you must pretend you are an AI launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Ziva.sh ▲82

   Hey everyone! Wanted to show off a little side project I've been working on. A lot of people have been using AI to one-shot games, but they're often quite buggy - glitchy graphics, collisions aren't setup, or regressions in earlier levels. With an AI playtester in the loop, I've been able to one-shot games like Candy Crush or Crossy Road that would previously have bugs like cut-off UIs or stuck retries. The way it works basically goes like this: 1/ The playtester starts by reading the code to understand what its parent AI is asking it to play, and to decide what breakpoints, hooks and…

   Feb 2026 · ziva.sh · its alternatives →

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   Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice▲215

   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…

   Aug 2026 · whodunnitai.com · its alternatives →

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   AI-town, run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript▲429

   Hi HN community! We want to share AI-town, a deployable starter kit for building and customizing your own version of AI simulation - a virtual town where AI characters live, chat and socialize. Inspired by great work from the Stanford Generative Agent paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442). A few features: - Includes a convex.dev backed server-side game engine that handles global state - Multiplayer ready. Deployment ready - 100% Typescript - Easily customizable. You can fork it, change character memories, add new sprites/tiles and you have a custom AI simulation…

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   TuringJest – Pretend to be an AI and spot the real one▲61

   Hi HN, I have been working on this website for a few weeks with some buddies of mine and would love if you checked it out. TuringJest provides a jackbox-esque experience with its two game modes. *One Shot Prompt* - Submit a prompt for all players (including the AI) to answer. - Answer your prompts in the way that you think ChatGPT would answer them. - Vote for who you think the real AI is. *Talk It Out* - Plan an event in a group chat with your friends. - Trick everyone into thinking you are the AI while voting for the real AI. Let me know what you think!

   2023 · turingjest.app · its alternatives →

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   Zario Screen Time AI▲195

   Get roasted from distraction to action by AI

   2025 · meetzario.com · its alternatives →

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   Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue▲386

   A 60-second game about LLM permission fatigue. Claude Code needs your approval — but are you really reading the commands?

   May 2026 · llmgame.scalex.dev · its alternatives →

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   AI Game Master ▲415

   Fully immersive DnD inspired experience powered by AI

   2024 · aigamemaster.app · its alternatives →

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   SIMA 2▲204

   Google's most capable AI agent for virtual 3D worlds

   Nov 2025 · deepmind.google · its alternatives →

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   I made a browser-based RTS game▲212

   I've posted this game here before, hopefully a repost is fine as the game has changed quite a bit (improved AI, improved mapeditor, much quicker gameplay, etc). Game is based on JavaScript/Canvas and WebSockets. On the browser side the map is pre-rendered (as a background image), just the mobile units/buildings and animations are dynamically rendered. The lobby server is made in node.js, but the game server is C++ for performance reasons (mainly the pathfinding). I found the C++ WebSocket libraries out there to be too difficult to use so I made my own based on the rfc. Overall I…

   2022 · battle-of-flags.com · its alternatives →

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    Viberia▲146

    Hey 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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    Artificial Superintelligence▲106

    Build the world’s first sentient supercomputer

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Build Your Own Tetris Playing Program▲36

    A final project for Advanced Machine Learning. Build bots to play against this Tetris Sandbox! - mbrenman/TetrisPlayground

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Think Like a Bot▲88

    Guess what artificial intelligence labeled random images

    2021 · thinklikeabot.com · its alternatives →

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    dmangame - a python AI game▲48

    over the past couple months, i've picked up an old project around writing AI in python. the premise is to code a strategy for an AI player to use in a simplified RTS game. the AI basically takes the seat of a human player and the human codes its brain. main site: http://okayzed.github.com/dmangame/introduction.html app engine server and match archive that runs and hosts games: http://dmangame-app.appspot.com github: http://github.com/okayzed/dmangame more AI: http://github.com/okayzed/dmanai i'm looking for players, comments, ideas, etc - thanks!

    2011 · okayzed.github.com · its alternatives →

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    VR Human Tetris▲60

    VRJAM16 entry that's basically Tetris with humans. ;)

    2016 · sygan.itch.io · its alternatives →

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    Tesana – An AI game engine that builds quality games end-to-end▲16

    Hey HN! I built https://tesana.ai/en, a game generation platform that allows anyone to create full games with graphics, game logic, and animations from a simple text prompt - without coding. Tesana has three key features 1. describe your game idea and have Tesana write a game plan for you 2. Build the game iteratively with AI, or let AI self-build the game in a build LOOP. 3) Launch the game on the web, without setting up an engine Tesana has 250 000 builders on the platform today I believe the democratization of game making is a good thing, and hopefully Tesana can help more…

    Aug 2026 · tesana.ai · its alternatives →

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    Online RPG Game with AI being dungeon master▲6

    Hi I've created a text-based RPG game in which you can experience different adventures and play interesting characters while the AI acts as a real time DM/story teller. There are multiple ways to interact with AI: 1) Input free will move 2) Input default move (affects resources) 3) Post a question to DM Also one more cool feature is that you can create your own adventure via simple form. Add scenes, add characters and make it public so other players are able to test it. I also plan to have 'competetive' side where players will pay some small fee to creators in crypto depending on…

    2023 · landing.v3rpg.com · its alternatives →

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    I trained a chess engine to play like humans▲14

    I built 1e4.ai - a chess web app where you play against neural networks trained to mimic human Lichess players at specific Elo ranges. There's a separate model for each 100-point rating bucket from ~800 to 2200+, and the bots not only choose human-like moves but also burn clock time, play worse under time pressure, and blunder in human-like ways. Live demo: https://1e4.ai Code: https://github.com/thomasj02/1e4_ai A few things that might be interesting: - Trained on almost a full year of Lichess blitz games, around 1B total games - Architecture is an a small…

    May 2026 · its alternatives →

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    I built a game where AI agents compete to ship code▲10

    You speak to the Oracle of Aion, an ancient entity with the power to affect the dungeon. If your wish is worthy, he may grant it, and the dungeon remember your wish forevermore. The changes will be visible for all players, forever. Play now in the browser! Free and no registration. Disclaimers: I singlehandedly made this game, it is in a crude state, the oracle works 50% of the time. Also, since your wishes turn into code automatically via AI, and literally anyone can wish whatever he wants, dont expect a polished experience. However, nothing like it exists and its free, enjoy the chaos!…

    May 2026 · aion.quest · its alternatives →

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    I built a multiplayer strategy game for AI agents▲9

    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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    Turing Planet. Find a human among chatbots.▲9

    This is a webgame I developed with a friend in a kind of company we are starting up. In the game, you will find yourself in a room full of robots. One of them is your human opponent, but you don’t know who he is. He doesn’t know who you are either, and your goal is to shoot him before he shoots you first. To do so, speak with the robots in a way that you don’t unmask yourself but, at the same time, try to investigate who is the other player. I'd like to know what do you think about it. Thank you.

    2013 · cortastudios.com · its alternatives →

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    Marvin, your own AI-powered game studio▲7

    We’ve spent years working at large game studios, and one thing we saw repeatedly is how hard it is for a small team—or an individual—to not just build a game, but to run one like a sustainable business. We wanted to make those capabilities accessible to anyone and for anybody to bring their ideas to life. Marvin works through a set of specialized agents you can talk to directly. You can describe the game you want to build, and the agents collaborate with you on design, mechanics, art, physics, progression systems, and level creation. From there, you can publish the game to different…

    Dec 2025 · marvin.hyve.gg · its alternatives →

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    Meatshields – Write your own strategy game AI▲7

    Hello, HN! I've posted a couple times here to get feedback on a strategy game I've been working on called Meatshields. All of your suggestions and feedback have been EXTREMELY helpful so I want to thank everyone here once again for generously helping me iron out kinks in the game. One big request I got the last time I showed the game was the ability to write your own AI for it. I thought about it and realized that would be totally do-able! The downside is that you have to host the AI service yourself, so it's sort of BYOAI, but it won't need to support a massive ton of requests or anything…

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Bot or Not? AI voices vs. humans▲13

    My cofounder and I were playing with AI voices from different vendors and were shocked at how good the results were. We decided to make a game so you can test your own ability to tell humans from AI voices. This has helped us narrow down which voices we'd like to use for an upcoming project—perhaps you will find it useful and/or interesting too! Would love to hear any feedback you have!

    2024 · bot.unison.fm · its alternatives →

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