Simian Shakespeare

Simian Shakespeare

Released Sep 2026

One Bard. Infinite Monkeys. Hire apes to type at random until Shakespeare appears. Starting with a monkey pecking one character at a time, and scales all the way up to hundreds of monkeys hammering away and even a Monkey on your GPU typing millions of characters a second! Will they fill the book?

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Publisher
Terracotta Sombrero
Achievements
100
Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player

About this game

One Bard. Infinite Emoji Monkeys. Simian Shakespeare is an idle game where you hire monkeys to mash their little emoji keyboard at random, generating random strings until the Complete Works of Shakespeare are found - one lucky word at a time!

You begin with a single ape pecking at his keys a character at a time. When it lucks onto a real word it earns peanuts! Spend those peanuts on more monkeys, faster typing, longer words, and weirder helpers, until you unlock the Celestial Monkey, which uses your GPU to type millions of characters a second, a cloud monkey who shares your found words with other players to work collaboratively, and even a mysterious hairless monkey who can help earn all 100 achievements and bring back Shakespeare in a way only previously dreamed of!

Leave it running, check the book on the left, and watch the complete works Shakespeare slowly be unveiled over time!

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