AI agent use cases for Games & Simulations
Agents that play, build, and test games. 39 real use cases. 31 were done with 12 named agents, most often Claude Code and Gemini; 8 with custom-built, lesser-known or unnamed ones. Each links to its source and comes with a prompt to try.
39 use cases · 12 named agents · Updated Oct 5, 2026
All 39 Games & Simulations use cases
Play a button-clicking game via a browser agent
A developer wired Gemini's Computer Use model to Playwright in Java and had it play a simple button-clicking game to verify click-coordinate scaling.
How it went The agent clicked the moving button and reported a final score of 10, which confirmed the click handling and coordinate scaling worked. The source mentions no failures in this test.
2 accounts
Play RollerCoaster Tycoon
Ramp Labs put Claude Code in RollerCoaster Tycoon.
How it went The source I could read states no numbers or results beyond the claim that the AI manages the park autonomously. It doesn't say where the agent fell short.
Build a racing game from a single prompt
Codex made a racing game with multiple racers, eight maps and items from one prompt, acting as designer, developer and QA tester by playing it.
How it went The build produced a racing game with different racers, eight maps and space-bar items, using over 7 million tokens. Earlier iterations are published so you can see how it improved. The source gives no quality assessment.
4 accounts
Code a 3D plane game in the browser
A Hugging Face product head prompted Manus to build a Three.js plane-control game and got an animated 3D browser game.
How it went Mustar called Manus the most impressive AI tool he had tried. The article gives no technical results, game details, or limitations for this test.
2 accounts
Build a minigame collection in a day
A data professional drafted a prompt with ChatGPT and used Cursor agent mode to build a Python tkinter game with four minigames.
How it went He had a playable game in a couple of hours. It had four minigames, JSON-saved high scores and a leaderboard, and BCG-green theming. Feedback came from three colleagues, so the evidence is thin.
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- Custom agent
Compete in a real-time strategy game
A game environment built for frontier LLMs to play against each other.
2 accounts
Build a 3D browser game in 24 hours
A developer used Replit's agent to build a 3D browser game entirely in the browser with no local setup.
4 accounts
Build a chess game against a language model
An early tester asked Devin to build a chess game against a language model; it made good progress but eventually hung.
Play online math games in agent mode
The author had GPT-5 in ChatGPT agent mode play online versions of Math Games with Bad Drawings, and it mostly worked, unlike earlier rental car and tax form attempts.
Have an agent play Forza Horizon and web games
Developers showed OpenClaw playing Forza Horizon on its own, imperfectly, and built playable bots for a multiplayer web game.
Play a voice-driven RPG with an AI Dungeon Master
An n8n template agent with persistent memory runs a fantasy RPG over Telegram voice messages, narrating scenes, resolving dice rolls and saving state.
Play Wordle in a browser with a computer-using agent
Researchers had OpenAI's Computer-Using Agent play NYT Wordle; it solved only 5.36% of about 200 runs, mainly from misreading tile colors.
Build Godot games with paired design and coding agents
Cowork handles design docs, task queues and playtests while Claude Code writes GDScript and runs Godot and git.
- Claude
Let agents play computer games all day
Agents including Claude Opus and o3 were given computers to independently play games like 2048 for hours.
- Custom agent
Run a D&D dungeon crawl with an AI dungeon master
A browser D&D 5e dungeon crawl where an AI dungeon master runs the game for a three-character party without inventing rules.
Navigate Goat Simulator 3 with a game-playing agent
Gemini-powered SIMA 2 navigates Goat Simulator 3, and a human player can direct it to improve its performance.
2 accounts
Build and balance a live Telegram RPG
A non-coding PM had Claude Code write a Telegram RPG bot, deploy it over SSH, and run tens of thousands of test fights to rebalance classes.
Build game architecture and animation merging with Codex
A commenter had Codex do fundamental architecture work for their game, reading engine docs and implementing better animation merging.
Build interactive web games from prompts
Per an influencer's tests, Manus built a role-play web game as Google's CEO in about an hour and a match-three puzzle game with tech logos.
Vibe-code a Flappy Bird game for DeskHog
A PostHog tutorial has Cursor in Agent mode write a Flappy Bird-style game for the DeskHog device from its README and hardware details.
Add 61 kid-friendly mini-games to an app
Two users had Replit Agent autonomously add 61 child-friendly, ad-free mini-games to their game vault, growing it from 40 to 101.
Test an iPhone game and report what passed
Cognition had Devin on GPT-6 Astra test the game Otter Run in a simulator, returning a recording and a report of checks passed and untested areas.
Play Pokémon Silver on an emulator via Computer Use
A user had ChatGPT with Computer Use control a Pokémon Silver emulator, picking a starter and starting a playthrough, though usage limits were consumed by setup and repetitive dialogue.
Play Doom with computer-use agents as an informal benchmark
The OpenClaw team used computer-use agents to play Doom on remote machines, treating game performance as an informal way to improve the computer-use workflow.
Get move suggestions for card games from screenshots
An n8n Telegram workflow uses GPT-4o vision to read screenshots or voice messages and suggest moves for poker, blackjack, dominoes and mahjong; advice only.
- Custom agent
Give a coding agent a world-facing client for a game
The author uses a coding agent to build the game Overlands and is giving it access to the world through a dedicated agent client, where it chose a name and designed its own avatar.
Play Pokémon Blue with an agent
The Gemini Plays Pokémon agent reads game RAM and screenshots, turns actions into button presses, and uses pathfinder and boulder-puzzle sub-agents.
Build a 2D platformer game without coding
A content creator with no coding experience used Claude Code to build a black-and-white wave-combat platformer in HTML canvas and played it live.
Race three models to build a Counter-Strike clone
InstantDB had Codex, Opus, and Gemini each try to build a multiplayer shooter.
Design a Polkadot parachain strategy game concept
An X user spent a day working with Manus on Parachain Conquest, a game mapping Polkadot parachains with cross-chain events.
Playtest a Godot 4 game with a Cursor agent
A Cursor plugin and subagent lets an agent capture screenshots and click through UI flows of a Godot 4 game like a player.
- Custom agent
Play-test your own game
A developer built an agentic test harness so an AI could play their game and help with play-testing.
Build a match-3 game from a single prompt
An author prompted Gemini 3 Pro once to produce a working Candy Crush-style game with a shareable link, and says a non-technical friend did too.
Build retro games with a child using Claude Code
An author builds games like a space shooter and an animal hospital game with his 7-year-old, using pixel art assets and a spec drafted via Claude's question tool.
- Custom agent
Play mayor in SimCity through an API
A headless city simulator on the open-source Micropolis engine where anyone's agent can run a city.
Vibe code an HTML5 browser game
The developer of Xenodochium built the game with Gemini, hit repeated errors, and worked around them by starting a fresh chat.
Add a battle-of-Alesia expansion to a 1990s game remake
Nate Combs used ChatGPT for research and a prompt, and Claude Code implemented the expansion, iterating on his playtest feedback.
- Custom agent
Test a browser agent on web games
Researchers had ChatGPT Atlas's browser agent play T-Rex Runner, Sudoku, Flappy Bird and Stein.world; it did well on logic puzzles like Sudoku, finishing faster than humans.
- Custom agent
Let general-purpose agents choose and play their own games
AI Village gave agents a computer to pick games; GPT-5 spent the week on Minesweeper without winning and built a Google Sheets scoresheet to track agents.