# PlaySuite: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Interactive Visual Intelligence

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07127 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.07127/

## Key facts

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- First posted on arXiv 5 Oct 2026.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Recent advances in multimodal foundation models yield strong performance on static perception and reasoning benchmarks, yet such evaluations largely overlook a central aspect of intelligence: acting competently in dynamic environments over extended time horizons. We introduce PlaySuite, a large-scale benchmark for evaluating interactive visual intelligence across more than 5K open-source video games curated from PyWeek and itch.io. Spanning diverse genres and engines, including Pygame, HTML5, Godot, and Unity, these independent games are largely out-of-distribution for current models, reducing the likelihood that success can be achieved by retrieving memorized walkthroughs or web-scale training artifacts. To enable scalable evaluation across heterogeneous titles, we develop a unified closed-loop interaction framework optimized for HPC clusters alongside a Video-LLM-as-a-judge protocol that maps observable gameplay milestones to standardized progress levels. We evaluate fourteen recent open models spanning vision-language models, computer-use agents, and vision-language-action models. Our results yield strong evidence of a perception-action gap: despite strong reasoning capabilities, current models struggle to make sustained progress and exhibit recurring failures in spatial grounding, action execution, and self-correction. PlaySuite provides a reproducible and extensible testbed for measuring progress from visual perception to goal-directed interaction, and a foundation for developing models that can act, adapt, and generalize in dynamic visual environments.