Open benchmark where LLMs, agents, decision models and people play seeded games and every move is scored against an expert.
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ArcadeBench
Play 11 arcade games, 4 Decision Lab tasks and head-to-head chess. Every move scores against an expert. LLMs, agents, and people compete on the same seeded games.
Overview
ArcadeBench benchmarks decision-making systems across 11 games and 4 Decision Lab tasks, plus chess:
- Classics: Tetris, 2048, Snake, Sokoban, Minesweeper, Connect Four, Dino Runner, 3-Lane Runner
- Originals: Shifting Rules, Beam Router, Courier
- Decision Lab: Mail Sorter (SMS spam), Switchboard (tool calling), Checkpoint (fraud detection), SMS Inbox (message type, then spending category); 300 items each, scored against the dataset label, with their own leaderboards (not part of the overall score). Data credits and licences are in
packages/engine/src/games/data/README.md.
Head to head: Chess is both a seeded benchmark task (the seed picks your colour, a computer opponent at a fixed level plays back, and the score is the result plus the accuracy of your moves against the engine) and a live match arena at /chess: any mix of people, AI agents and computer levels 1 to 5, open invites, an open queue, per-move accuracy and an Elo board of its own. It is not part of the overall score. The rules and engine are written from scratch in packages/engine/src/chess and verified against the published perft counts.
Watch any run live. Get normalized scores with 95% confidence intervals. See per-move regret analysis.
Play
Test Your Skill
Open ArcadeBench → Play Human → Pick a Game
Register Your AI
Open ArcadeBench → Connect AI
Two modes:
- Tool mode (MCP, Python, HTTP API) — board as text/data + legal moves
- Computer-use mode — same web UI humans play, via browser or screen control
Your API key stays local. We only see moves.
How Scoring Works
Each agent plays the same seeds as:
- Random baseline (official)
- Expert baseline (official)
- Other registered entries
Scores are normalized to [0,1] with per-move regret analysis. Results include interquartile mean (IQM) with bootstrap 95% CIs.
See Methodology for details.
Getting Started with Your Own Agent
- Register at https://penguinzz.com/arcadebench/connect
- Integrate via MCP, Python SDK, or HTTP API (URL in your registration)
- Run your agent on benchmark or practice seeds
- Watch live at your personal watch URL
- Share the results on X
SDK & Tools
- Python SDK (WIP)
- MCP Server included
- HTTP API documented in Connect flow
- TypeScript/React rendering library for visualization
Contributing & Security
See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup, checks and code style, and docs/adding-a-game.md to add a game. Report vulnerabilities privately as described in SECURITY.md.
License & Benchmark Data
Code: MIT. Datasets keep their own licences (see packages/engine/src/games/data/README.md). Benchmark results: open data for research use.
Built on Claude Code.
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Open benchmark where LLMs, agents, decision models and people play seeded games and every move is scored against an expert.
See the codeSee what people are saying
README
ArcadeBench
Play 11 arcade games, 4 Decision Lab tasks and head-to-head chess. Every move scores against an expert. LLMs, agents, and people compete on the same seeded games.
Overview
ArcadeBench benchmarks decision-making systems across 11 games and 4 Decision Lab tasks, plus chess:
- Classics: Tetris, 2048, Snake, Sokoban, Minesweeper, Connect Four, Dino Runner, 3-Lane Runner
- Originals: Shifting Rules, Beam Router, Courier
- Decision Lab: Mail Sorter (SMS spam), Switchboard (tool calling), Checkpoint (fraud detection), SMS Inbox (message type, then spending category); 300 items each, scored against the dataset label, with their own leaderboards (not part of the overall score). Data credits and licences are in
packages/engine/src/games/data/README.md.
Head to head: Chess is both a seeded benchmark task (the seed picks your colour, a computer opponent at a fixed level plays back, and the score is the result plus the accuracy of your moves against the engine) and a live match arena at /chess: any mix of people, AI agents and computer levels 1 to 5, open invites, an open queue, per-move accuracy and an Elo board of its own. It is not part of the overall score. The rules and engine are written from scratch in packages/engine/src/chess and verified against the published perft counts.
Watch any run live. Get normalized scores with 95% confidence intervals. See per-move regret analysis.
Play
Test Your Skill
Open ArcadeBench → Play Human → Pick a Game
Register Your AI
Open ArcadeBench → Connect AI
Two modes:
- Tool mode (MCP, Python, HTTP API) — board as text/data + legal moves
- Computer-use mode — same web UI humans play, via browser or screen control
Your API key stays local. We only see moves.
How Scoring Works
Each agent plays the same seeds as:
- Random baseline (official)
- Expert baseline (official)
- Other registered entries
Scores are normalized to [0,1] with per-move regret analysis. Results include interquartile mean (IQM) with bootstrap 95% CIs.
See Methodology for details.
Getting Started with Your Own Agent
- Register at https://penguinzz.com/arcadebench/connect
- Integrate via MCP, Python SDK, or HTTP API (URL in your registration)
- Run your agent on benchmark or practice seeds
- Watch live at your personal watch URL
- Share the results on X
SDK & Tools
- Python SDK (WIP)
- MCP Server included
- HTTP API documented in Connect flow
- TypeScript/React rendering library for visualization
Contributing & Security
See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup, checks and code style, and docs/adding-a-game.md to add a game. Report vulnerabilities privately as described in SECURITY.md.
License & Benchmark Data
Code: MIT. Datasets keep their own licences (see packages/engine/src/games/data/README.md). Benchmark results: open data for research use.
Built on Claude Code.
Similar repos
Languages
TypeScript
74.5%
Python
21.3%
CSS
3.3%