If you loved how Alan sprints through contracts, squeezes every edge from point allocations, and races timers to climb the leaderboards in The Gam3: Opening Moves, you’ll devour Dungeon Crawler Carl. Carl and Princess Donut battle floor-by-floor objectives under ruthless event rules, hunt loot under audience scrutiny, and survive sponsor-driven chaos—delivering that same pulse of tactical gambits, power gains, and nail-biting survivals you enjoyed.

If the backroom deals, oaths of patronage, and tightrope diplomacy Alan navigates between alien Houses hooked you in The Gam3: Opening Moves, Dune will hit the same nerve. Watching Paul Atreides thread assassination plots, duels, and shifting alliances among the Great Houses—and leverage Fremen support against imperial pressure—mirrors that satisfying tangle of strategy and status that kept Alan alive and advancing.

If exploring the wider cosmos of The Gam3: Opening Moves—with its distinct species, contract customs, and honor codes—was your jam, Children of Time offers a panoramic upgrade. You’ll track Dr. Avrana Kern’s failed uplift project as it spawns a new civilization (hello, Portia and the spiders), while a desperate human ark ship struggles to understand and engage with an utterly alien society, delivering that same rich sense of rules, history, and cultures colliding.

If the semi-mystical rule-set of The Gam3: Opening Moves—where understanding the system lets Alan pull off impossible feats—hooked you, Ninefox Gambit takes that thrill further. Kel Cheris teams with the infamous Shuos Jedao to wage calendrical warfare, where compliance with exotic “rules” shapes reality itself. Watching formations and equations unlock reality-bending weapons echoes the satisfaction of mastering The Gam3’s mechanics.

If being hurled off Earth into interstellar conflict—leveling up gear, adapting to alien threats, and surviving set-piece battles—was your favorite part of The Gam3: Opening Moves, you’ll click with Old Man’s War. John Perry signs up with the Colonial Defense Forces, wakes in a rebuilt body, and faces wildly different alien species in fast, inventive engagements that scratch the same spacefaring, upgrade-driven itch.