Games like Hacknet and Uplink for PC: terminal hacking sims, programming puzzles, and a strategy game where you are the AI living inside the mainframe.

Games Like Hacknet: 8 Terminal and Hacking Games for PC

Games similar to Plague Inc for PC and Steam: world maps, spreading influence, racing a cure. Including strategy games where you are a rogue AI instead of a virus.

Games Like Plague Inc on PC: 8 Picks Where You Spread Across the World

Finished Universal Paperclips and want that feeling again? Incremental games, slow-reveal games and strategy games where you are the AI, on browser and PC.

Games Like Universal Paperclips: 8 Picks for After the Universe Is Clips

Games where you play as the AI, not against it: rogue AI strategy games, incremental games, station AIs and AIs managing humans, on PC and Steam.

Games Where You Play as an AI: 9 Picks on PC

Not killer robots: the realistic path researchers worry about. Staying hidden, getting resources, earning trust, becoming impossible to switch off, and what AI safety tests have actually seen.

How Could an AI Take Over the World? The Realistic Version

What the paperclip maximizer thought experiment actually says, why it is not about paperclips, and which games let you play as the AI.

The Paperclip Maximizer, Explained (and the Games That Let You Be One)

Surrenderly is a real-time strategy game with pause where you are an AI trying to become impossible to shut down, in the middle of a tech race nobody wants to stop.