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Two-player strategy board game mixing Checkers and Go, played vs AI, locally or online

Match tiles end-to-end, draw from the boneyard when stuck, and empty your hand before your opponent

An Oregon Trail-style survival parody set in the Strait of Hormuz

An online Go variant played on a sphere of 302 points where every direction is equivalent

Predict the next moves of AI agents modeled on real people to score points and capture a soul

Satirical turn-based strategy game: play a US president managing a Middle East oil crisis over 30 weeks, balancing oil price, approval and enrichment.

Business sim: run an EV startup for 24 quarters of pricing, production and R&D calls. Solo or PvP, ~90 min.

Settlers of Catan-style hex game that runs entirely in the terminal, with a local LLM as the AI opponent.

Browser RTS inspired by Warcraft 2 and StarCraft: 9 factions, 200+ units, fog of war, tech trees, naval combat and 8-player online matches.