Barnard's Star vs AI Trail

Snipe your friends, electrocute your enemies and rain down acidic slime in the Barnard’s Star system, 6 light years from Earth. A multiplayer, turn-based tactics battler with no micro-transactions and no random chance — ingenuity is the only way to victory! Features: - Choose between 3 warring factions: Humans, Robots, and Critters - Do battle with 30 characters using dozens of unique attacks and abilities - Conquer 18 different maps set on space stations and intergalactic ships - Play offline vs. AI or locally against a friend - Challenge friends and strangers with online multiplayer

You have $150k, a founder's ego, and 14 sprints to launch an AI startup before the money, the team, or the codebase gives out. AI Trail is a dark-comedy management roguelite in the spirit of classic educational trail games. Every run is a doomed-or-glorious startup journey. Plan each sprint: ship fast, ship right, fix bugs, hire, market, harden security. Pick two, live with both. Survive 60+ satirical events torn from real AI-industry absurdity: sycophantic models, hallucinated refund policies, benchmark mirages, and the intern with prod access. Watch your train limp across the Trough of Disillusionment. The smoke color knows how your codebase feels. Die with dignity. Every failed run gets a procedurally assembled epitaph and a permanent grave on your home screen. Share your postmortem. Launch, if you can. Most founders do not. Runs take 10 to 15 minutes. Deaths take considerably less. No accounts. No cross-app tracking. No personal profiles. Just you and the burn rate.