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Life SimulationBe born as a random person somewhere on Earth and live their life, year by year.
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Play free — official siteVibeGameDB lists 10 games in this group, 26% of the 39 games on the Text-Based page. Each one has a source for how it was made. 10 are free or free to play and 0 are paid. The most recently added is Legends of Future Past (November 2026).
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Be born as a random person somewhere on Earth and live their life, year by year.
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Be born at random somewhere in Chinese history, then live that life one year at a time.
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A multiplayer MUD in the style of the 1990s, with room art and sprites over the text log.
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An old-school text-based MMORPG in the browser where your character keeps progressing while you're offline.
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A 1992 online text RPG, rebuilt from old scripts by Claude Code.
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A very short Japanese romance novel game with command choices and nine endings, built by Claude Code.
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A 1981 TRS-80 text adventure, remastered for the browser with Claude Code.
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Play free — official siteA short browser interrogation mystery by Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii, who says he made it in about 30 minutes by giving instructions to an AI.
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A free text adventure about an AI that wakes each day with no memory of yesterday, written by Claude Code left to its own devices.
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Live one boy's baseball life from birth to death, year by year, with odds drawn from public statistics; its beginner developer says Claude Code designed and built most of it.
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