Brawliens
An online party game for up to eight players in which aliens abduct you and your friends for a game show of 30+ minigames; its developers, a duo, built it with Claude Code; their first post says “I’ve never written a line of code”.
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Where to play
The developer has shown this game in a public video, but there is no public build yet. We update this page when there is news.
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About Brawliens
Brawliens is an online party board game for 2 to 8 players: aliens abduct you and seven friends for a game show, and only the winner goes home. There are four modes, three of them on a board and one of minigames only; players win more than 30 minigames (kart races through a kitchen, snowboarding down a snow globe, dodgeball on the moon, a heist past a sleeping cat), buy gadgets, and in the board modes finish with an all-out Final Brawl across alien planets. Bots fill empty seats, and matches can be hosted with a six-letter code, joined from public lobbies or saved and resumed. The developers, a duo credited on Steam as Bait & Darkys, write: “I’m a gamer, not a programmer”, and say they started building the game for their friends “entirely with Claude Code” three weeks before their first post on 30 October 2026. The Steam page lists Windows and a March 2027 release; a free demo was announced for early November but was not on Steam when checked on 8 November 2026.
How it was built
Partially verifiedThe developers' first post, written in the first person (“I’ve never written a line of code”), says the game was built entirely with Claude Code: they play with friends, write down what feels bad, give the notes to Claude and play again, “about 1,300 times”. The Steam AI disclosure adds that Claude helped write the game's code, including the code that builds the 3D models, levels and effects, translated the game's text and helped draft the store text, all directed and reviewed by the two developers.
- Developer“I’m a gamer, not a programmer. 3 weeks ago I started building a chaotic party game for my friends entirely with Claude Code.” — Reddit r/aigamedev (u/Brawliens)
- DeveloperSteam AI disclosure: “We built the game with an AI coding assistant (Claude): it helped write the game's code, including the code that builds the 3D models, levels and effects …” — Steam
Built with Claude Code from playtest notes; 3D models, levels and effects are generated by code that Claude wrote. Per the Steam disclosure there are no AI-generated images, voice acting or music in the game; music and sound effects are licensed human recordings, and only the trailer narrator is an AI text-to-speech voice. The engine is not disclosed.
- Engine / framework
- Not disclosed
- Languages
- Not disclosed
- Team size
- 2 peopleDeveloper ReportedSteam
- Initial build time
- About three weeks of development at the time of the first post (30 Oct 2026)Developer ReportedReddit r/aigamedev (u/Brawliens)
- Development time
- Not disclosed
- Development cost
- Not disclosed
- AI-written code
- Not disclosed
“I’ve never written a line of code. 3 weeks with Claude Code later, I have an 8-player online party game.”Verification notes: AI use and development time come from the developers' r/aigamedev post of 30 Oct 2026 and the Steam AI disclosure (checked 8 Nov 2026). The Reddit account is named after the game; its r/IndieGameWishlist post (31 Oct 2026) says “We’re a duo”, and the Steam disclosure says the work was “directed and reviewed by the two of us”; Steam credits Bait & Darkys as developer and publisher. The members' real names are not given. Steam (app 5430390): Windows, release March 2027, 2–8 players online, seven languages listed. A free demo was announced “in a few days” (30 Oct) and “on Wednesday” (r/IndieDev post, 31 Oct), but Steam listed no demo or playtest on 8 Nov 2026. The bots that fill empty seats are ordinary game bots; no source mentions a language model at play time. Location is not stated.
Development history
First gameplay clip shared, about three weeks into development; Steam page live with a March 2027 release date.
Free Steam demo announced for the following week (not on Steam when checked on 8 Nov 2026).
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Sources
| Source | Type | Published | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| I’ve never written a line of code. 3 weeks with Claude Code later, I have an 8-player online party game Reddit r/aigamedev (u/Brawliens) · English | Social post | Oct 30, 2026 | Nov 7, 2026 |
| Weeks of polishing every detail, and almost nobody outside our friends has wishlisted. Honest feedback please Reddit r/IndieGameWishlist (u/Brawliens) · English | Social post | Oct 31, 2026 | Nov 7, 2026 |
| Brawliens on Steam Steam · English | Store page | Not confirmed | Nov 7, 2026 |
