Restore an old PC game on a modern machine
Claude Code revived a 1997 DirectX game, unpacked much of its code, and later used it to generate illustrated walkthroughs on its own.
Claude Code
Agent Uses · 1,321 real examples
AI agents for games & simulations
Agents that play, build or simulate games and virtual worlds. Each entry shows what the person asked for, how it went, and a prompt to try it yourself.
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Use Codex to shape game architecture and animation blending
A game builder had Codex handle core architecture and improve animation transitions by reading engine docs and wiring in merging logic.
Codex
Use spawned agents to build a Rust game engine
They had several Grok bots split up the work and produce a Rust editor with scripting, threading, and scene effects.
Grok Bot
Use an AI to referee a D&D 5e dungeon
They ran a browser D&D crawl with three characters while the agent checked rules text and monster stats from separate sources.
Custom agent
Have Replit Agent fill out a game vault
Replit Agent added 61 fresh child-friendly mini-games to raise one app’s total from 40 to 101.
Replit Agent
Have Grok build a game and teach it to play
Grok created Roofline, then a PPO model was trained to compete on the live page.
Grok Bot
Let a coding agent enter your game world
A developer connected their coding agent to Overlands through a separate client so it could appear inside the game as a player.
Custom agent
Build a browser 4X game with LLM help
A developer used Grok and Gemini to assemble Hexwardia, a browser-based 4X game, in two weeks.
Gemini
Build and play-test a Mars simulator game
They used Grok Build to create, test, and refine a browser Mars simulator for a nephew.
Grok Bot
Build a game level from a design doc
They used Grok 4.5 to create a new level for an existing Three.js game, then cleaned up and polished the result by hand.
Grok Bot
Build a text game around AI narration
A developer used Grok to narrate a choice-based game and said it handled story text better than Gemini and GPT.
Grok BotGemini
Run multiple game builds in parallel
One user had four Grok 4.20 agents create different games at the same time and finish them within a day.
Grok Bot
Build a one-file particle life simulator
A group of Grok agents made a single-file neon particle simulator with force controls and emergent motion.
Grok Bot
Test screenshot-to-click scaling in a simple web game
A developer used Gemini with Playwright to confirm that click coordinates lined up with the browser view.
Gemini
Have Devin make a chess app with an AI opponent
An early tester used Devin to create a chess program where the user played a language model, and the build stalled before completion.
Devin
Build a browser racing game from one prompt
A lone agent turned one prompt into a playable kart racer, then kept testing and fixing it while acting as designer, developer, and QA.
Codex
Build a 3D browser game with an AI agent
A developer used Replit’s agent to try making a 3D browser game entirely in the browser, without installing anything locally.
Replit Agent
Use bots to ship and improve a mobile game
A developer split game work across six bots, including a bot that reused a recorded upload flow to publish ad creatives each day.
Grok Bot
Guide a game agent through Goat Simulator 3
SIMA 2 in Goat Simulator 3 can be nudged by a person giving live directions.
Gemini
Build a browser-based 3D plane game
A Hugging Face product head asked Manus to make a Three.js plane game that runs in a browser.
Manus
Let an agent run a theme park in RollerCoaster Tycoon
A developer had Claude Code operate a RollerCoaster Tycoon park by itself, from placing rides to handling problems and writing status reports.
Claude Code
Pit three agents against a browser shooter build
Three coding agents independently built the same multiplayer shooter, letting the team compare their strengths and weak spots.
CodexClaudeGemini
Let an agent take turns in a browser game
A writer used ChatGPT agent mode to compete in Ben Orlin’s online math games, stepping in between turns so the agent could continue.
ChatGPT Agent
Use an agent to start a Pokémon Silver run
A user let ChatGPT Agent control a Pokémon Silver emulator, pick a starter, and begin a playthrough while they watched and streamed.
ChatGPT Agent