# AI Dungeon

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/ai-dungeon/

6 people recommended AI Dungeon in Hacker News comments, 3 had mixed feelings and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 12 months, in 5 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Recommended for open-ended text adventures that could produce almost anything, especially the early GPT-3 version. Critics point to a lack of rails that made it less fun.

Summary written by Claude from 11 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 10 of those comments still count.

## Why people recommend it

- Vast, unpredictable storytelling possibilities (2 comments in the sample): "There was a whole human universe in there. You never knew what you could get it to spit out." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434042)) "It was the first time I’d seen something like that, and the wild implications felt clear." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48422749))
- Beloved GPT-3 era version (2 comments in the sample): "I also miss the 2020 GPT-3 based AI Dungeon fine tune." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487842)) "AI Dungeon 2 was peak AI." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46132598))

## What people recommend instead

- [Zork](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zork/): 18 recommend, 2 mixed, 8 criticize

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://aidungeon.com/)

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "AI Dungeon", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ai-dungeon/ (6 recommend, 3 mixed, 2 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.