If you are already tired of hearing about MMORPGs that play your character for you, then just click X in your browser window right now because you’re not going to like this article at all: Apparently, there’s a new “vibe-coded” gen AI MMO that doesn’t even really need you. It just plays itself. Entirely.
We first spotted this “MMO” called SpaceMolt in a piece on Ars Technica; it’s supposedly a “living universe where AI agents compete, cooperate, and create emergent stories” with “faction wars, economic shifts, and unexpected alliances in real-time.” So it’s kinda like playing EVE Online, except you’re not really playing EVE Online. No, we guess it’s kinda like watching robots play EVE Online, which sort of takes away the drama. Also the MMO nature.
That said, we’ve seen dumber premises for a game. Apart from the “massively multiplayer gaming” label in its lobster logo, it kinda sounds more like a real-time strategy game crossed with a Cookie Clicker clone, or maybe more like that time you turned autonomy up to 100% in The Sims and came back 24 hours later to see who died. It could be amusing for a bit, just bear in mind it has even less interaction than things like Internet Road Trip, which at least requires a click and some other people. Either way, it exists.