
Elsewhere: An ASCII Life-Sim RPG
Life Simulation · RPGAn open-source ASCII life sim where you age, marry, run a business and play on as your heirs.
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View on itch.ioVibeGameDB lists 9 games in this group, 9% of the 100 games on the Codex page. Each one has a source for how it was made. 7 are free or free to play and 3 are paid; 5 can be played in a browser. The most recently added is Graveacre (November 2026).
Ordered by editorial score, then player rating, then release date. Open a game for its sources.

An open-source ASCII life sim where you age, marry, run a business and play on as your heirs.
Download required
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An old-school text-based MMORPG in the browser where your character keeps progressing while you're offline.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — official site
A small turn-based auto-battler in the browser, built by GPT 5.5 in Codex.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — official site
A keyboard-only ASCII colony sim inside a dead god's corpse, coded mainly by Claude Code and Codex.
Download required
View on SteamA free feudal sci-fi sandbox strategy RPG for the browser: lead a minor noble house across a living campaign map and fight real-time squad battles. The developer says Claude Code writes the code.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
A paid match-3 puzzle RPG for iPhone: link puzzle pieces to set off your three mercenaries' skills in raids; the solo developer says it was vibe-coded and that they did not write the code.
Mobile app
View on the App Store
A traditional ASCII roguelike with a long quest line, a large world map and old-school D&D-style races, classes and spells.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — official site
A free pixel-art idle survival game in a French valley overrun by the dead: pick what your survivor does and they keep at it while the game is closed. The developer says Claude Code wrote most of the code.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — official site
A satirical pixel-art survivor shooter in which caricatured tech founders fight their way to a rogue AI.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — official site