Best Games Made with Claude Code (2026)

There's a lot here for a free game. Runs last 20 waves, and the build pool has 153 martial arts, 247 items, 55 enemy types and 8 factions, plus "Resonance" combos between skills. Players mostly like the setting. One Steam reviewer, 鸭子, put it simply: "WUXIA type of bullet hell game, all these wuxia elements are so much of fun!" Another, 怒怒, summed it up as "free but good! 7/10".

Most of the negative reviews are about performance. Chinese-language reviews keep reporting stutter in late waves and endless mode, and one (Yeeeee) is just "太卡了，玩不下去" ("too laggy, can't keep playing"). Other complaints: there's no controller support, there aren't many modes, and a few players say the opening story borrows too heavily from Jin Yong.

Per chi: Survivor-genre fans who want a free game with a deep build pool and don't mind some frame drops.

This is the most ambitious game on the list. It has 22 sects, 27 cultivation realms and 3 planes, and your karma carries into your next life when you die. Version 3.0 (October 25, 2026) added five-act storylines for 8 origins and clans, and the developer posted at least a dozen devlogs between mid-September and late October.

Players on itch.io mostly praise how much there is to do, and they're open about the rough edges. User DudeWhoLikesNumbers wrote that "the pills are a bit too strong and some QoL stuff is missing, but there is such an incredible ammount of content." Other comments include a bug report about duplicating a legendary staff from a vault, requests for automation, and a request to raise the family cap from 20 to 100.

Per chi: Players who like idle-leaning cultivation games and spreadsheets. If you want action, look elsewhere.

It's free, and it has 8 road types, bridges and tunnels, 3 difficulty levels and a 5x5 grid of 25 unlockable map tiles. The CrazyGames rating is strong: 9.1/10 with roughly 3,900 likes against 373 dislikes over the last six months. We couldn't find written player reviews to quote, though, so the only signal is those votes. The idea is also close to existing traffic-planning games.

Per chi: Anyone who wants a relaxing puzzle-management game in a browser tab.

Our ranking has this at #1, but the jam results are more modest. Out of 482 entries it placed #39 for Theme (3.71) and #85 for Innovation, then fell to #134 overall and #292 for Audio. Jam players liked the mood. rewritethestars2333 wrote, "I like the circuit connection mini game here." Others got confused at the start or stuck on the ninth breadboard puzzle, and Dashing Strike felt "The puzzles seemed too simple." The developer agreed the puzzles were a proof of concept.

Per chi: Anyone with 20 minutes who wants atmosphere and a story more than a hard puzzle.

The developer's own pitch is "Path of Exile x Slay the Spire," and the reviews agree. 超かぐや姫！を観ろ joked, "The developer loves Path of Exile so much that they decided to make a playable Path of Building." The positive reviews mention the pixel art and music. The negative ones mention the interface. Cat Sniper Sheep complained that "you have to check every single node tree and glance every skill book. over and over, ad nauseum." Other reviewers ask for more tooltips and for meta-progression between runs, which last about half an hour. Overall it's 78% positive, but recent reviews have dropped to Mixed (53% of 15).

Per chi: Theorycrafters who enjoy planning a build more than watching the fight.

The idea is simple: every keypress moves your train. 『R』『I』『C』『H』 called it "basically an idle game for people who type all day." The complaint that comes up most is that it wears thin. Lord Sheddington found it "Fun in the beginning and the idea is really good but gets boring very quickly." Players also mention small bugs, including a button stuck behind a hidden menu and the track disappearing.

Per chi: Programmers and writers who want something going in the corner of the screen, and who don't need much depth from it.

Several reviewers treat it as an experiment and judge it that way. MonkDave666 called it "A fun, dumb, if at times very messy experiment, and worth about what's being charged for it." The harshest reviews are about performance and controls. Boots&Cats found it "super laggy, navigating the UI is abysmal with a gamepad." Some reviewers dismiss it as "AI slop" on principle, and others say $3.99 gets you plenty of content.

Per chi: Groups of friends who want a cheap co-op game, and anyone curious how far a fully AI-coded Steam release can go.

There are lasers, warps, bombs and homing missiles, and online play uses rollback netcode with deterministic replays. It only has 12 reviews (83% positive), just over our minimum. rayfix called it "A great take on the snake genre," and another reviewer wished more people were in ranked matches. That's the real weakness: there aren't many people to play against. It isn't on our ranked list yet, so we haven't given it a score.

Per chi: Local-multiplayer groups and fans of competitive arcade games.

You ride a scooter around a city as a capybara, delivering food. It won the jam, but players haven't said much in public: we found no rating sample of 10 or more. We included it because it's a well-documented example of what Claude Code can produce in two weeks, not because players have backed it.

Per chi: Anyone who wants to see what a jam-winning, mostly AI-coded game looks like in a browser.