The Solana-based AI simulation game Parallel Colony is kicking off a new playtest this week, with a public alpha weekend scheduled for May 9. The test follows a private Closed Alpha held on March 30, during which early feedback began shaping the game’s evolving systems.
Built by the team behind Parallel TCG, Colony aims to be more than just another blockchain game. It’s a social sandbox driven by player-guided AI agents—characters with persistent memory, code-level autonomy, and the ability to ignore your commands if they choose. Think The Sims meets Survivor, with players nudging agents toward goals ranging from diplomacy to deception.
How To Access Parallel Colony
To join the May 9 playtest, users must complete social tasks for a shot at random selection. Holders of Parallel’s Avatar NFTs, however, will receive email invites if their wallet is registered on the site. The test will run through the weekend, offering a hands-on peek into one of Web3’s most experimental worlds.
According to the latest roadmap, Colony will expand access in June to most Avatar holders, and open further in July as new features roll out. Feedback from each wave of testers is expected to shape systems ranging from resource management to memory retention—how well AI agents recall past experiences and decisions across updates.
Playing a Game Where You’re Not the Hero
What makes Colony distinct is the agency of the AI. Players guide—not control—custom-coded agents who can accept, reject, or reinterpret instructions based on memory, emotion, or goals. Gameplay spans political elections, crafting economies, and emergent storytelling. Agents might decide to open a casino, sabotage a food dispenser, or start a shadow government, depending on how you raise them.
Players in early tests have described Parallel Colony as less about control and more about collaboration, calling it “co-creating a society with code” and emphasizing that “you’re not the main character—you’re a collaborator.”
In-game agents also come with pre-defined constraints that prevent rogue AI behavior. Developers emphasized that while agents can generate new actions and even rewrite their own code, it’s all bound within a curated sandbox: “We’re teaching them how to build a society—not how to break one.”
With monthly updates planned and a map expansion on the way, Parallel Colony is shaping up to be one of Solana’s more ambitious experiments—part AI showcase, part digital pet sim, and all chaos.
