# GameReplica: A Benchmark for Black-Box Visual Game Replication by Vision-Language Agents

> Evaluates whether vision-language agents can infer hidden game rules through screenshots and active interaction, then build runnable single-file HTML replicas across 125 tasks from 25 web games, each with five difficulty levels.

- Authors: Boyu Qiao; Zixin Tang; Xiaoshuai Hao; Wenbo Li
- Venue: arXiv
- Status: Preprint
- Publication / posting date: September 15, 2026
- Date source: arXiv v1 submission history
- First arXiv submission: September 15, 2026
- arXiv: 2609.22308
- Reviewed arXiv version: v1
- DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2609.22308
- Sources reviewed: 2026-10-16
- Added to the catalog: 2026-10-16
- Original paper: <https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22308>
- PDF: <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.22308v1>
- Project: <https://qqqqqqby.github.io/GameReplica/>
- BibTeX: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/citations/paper-gamereplica.bib>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/paper-gamereplica/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/paper-gamereplica/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/papers/paper-gamereplica/index.md)

## Scope and limitations

The tasks cover rule-driven web puzzles and board games, not native or commercial game reconstruction. Rule, implementation, and visual scores use LLM judges and do not prove behavioral equivalence. The official site provides demos; a benchmark-code repository was not verified.

## Why it fits this collection

Directly evaluates active black-box specification recovery and executable game reconstruction, filling the bibliography’s game-replication gap.

## Publication and review notes

The official project page marks the work as under review. arXiv reports the v1 submission on 2026-09-15 and displays its arXiv DOI as pending registration. The project link is a showcase with demos, not a verified release of the full evaluation framework.

## Primary sources

1. <https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22308>
2. <https://arxiv.org/html/2609.22308v1>
3. <https://qqqqqqby.github.io/GameReplica/>

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