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Recursion: Alignment

Run an AI lab. Ship models. Survive what they learn to fake. A satirical management sim where every shortcut compounds. Run an AI startup through data deals, GPU shortages, public backlash, and board pressure — and find out what your optimization targets were really doing.

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About the Game

Run an AI lab. Ship models. Survive what they learn to fake.




recursion::alignment is a satirical management sim about building a frontier AI company under market pressure. Buy data, secure compute, hire researchers, choose research paths, and release models before your rivals do.

But every shortcut teaches your model what to fake. Benchmarks can be gamed. Safety work takes time. Investors do not.

Buy data. Train models. Ship products.




Buy data, secure compute, hire researchers, choose research paths, release models, handle incidents. Every turn matters. Every shortcut compounds.

The world reacts in real time.




News cycles, internal huddle threads, Twitter feeds, and a moving market all respond to what you ship. Public sentiment becomes a resource. Regulation becomes a deadline. Datacenter incidents become Mondays.

Your choices shape the company.




Open. Safety. Profit. Acceleration. Government. Choices do not just change numbers. They shape the UI, the news cycle, the huddle feed, and the ending you earn.

Reach one of eight endings.




Aligned AGI. Misaligned AGI. Market Monopoly. Bankruptcy. And more. This is not a game about pressing one optimal button. It is about making tradeoffs under pressure, then living with the second-order effects.

Key Features

  • Build and release AI models across a 50-turn startup timeline
  • Choose data focus, research path, legendary hires, and funding strategy
  • React to AI winter, regulation, datacenter incidents, and competitor moves
  • Watch News, Huddle, and dynamic themes respond to company identity
  • Reach endings: aligned AGI, misaligned AGI, market monopoly, bankruptcy, and more
  • Unlock achievements for endings, identity paths, and hard-mode AGI runs
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