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Guides to getting more out of AI roleplay, picks for interactive stories and games, and what we just shipped.
Introducing Nepenthe PlayAI-native games, human imagination, and the ambition to make a game as easily as suggesting one to your friends.
AI Boyfriend: Best AI Boyfriend Apps & Characters (2026)AI boyfriend apps and characters compared on who texts first, who remembers, and who stays in character. Five written AI boyfriends you can start with today, plus the apps that market one.
AI Dungeon Alternatives: 8 Games Like AI Dungeon (2026)Eight AI Dungeon alternatives for text adventures, compared on what each one replaces: authored stories, tabletop rules, memory controls, price and content policy. Checked September 2026.
Best AI Chatbots for Roleplay (2026): Story-First PicksThe best AI roleplay chatbots ranked by whether the character holds a point of view, remembers, initiates and takes direction, with a comparison table and a ten-minute test you can run yourself.
Best AI Girlfriend Apps for Story-Driven Roleplay (2026)AI girlfriend apps compared on who texts first, who remembers, and what each one's own policy says about explicit content. Six written AI girlfriends you can start with, plus the apps that publish a real rule.
Character AI Alternatives (2026): 10 Apps Like Character.AITen Character.AI alternatives compared on memory, characters that message first, story control and content policy, checked against official pages in September 2026.
Games Like Liar's Bar You Can Play Alone or in a BrowserLiar's Bar is online-only with no bots. Eight bluffing games like it that you can play against AI, solo, or straight from a browser, checked against official pages in September 2026.
Interactive Story Games You Can Play in a Browser (2026)Seven interactive story games and text adventures that run in a browser with nothing to install: authored stories with endings, AI-driven worlds, and the free classics, checked in September 2026.
20 Lateral Thinking Puzzles with Answers (Play Them with an AI Host)Twenty original lateral thinking puzzles with answers, from easy to hard, plus how to run one as a yes-or-no game and where to play against an AI host that never gives the answer away.