A field study in autonomous play
A familiar world.
An unfamiliar
kind of player.
Give an AI the screen and the controls. See how far it gets in Chrono Trigger—and what it discovers along the way.
13Models in the field
14Recorded runs
8 + 10Story + exploration checkpoints
1Runs completed the benchmark segment
01 / The standings
How far did they get?
Best run per model · Updated 2026-07-11
01google/gemini-3-flash-preview8/8 checkpoints · $2.4402qwen/qwen3.7-plus7/8 checkpoints · $1.0503google/gemma-4-26b-a4b4/8 checkpoints · Local · $0
| Rank / Model | Journey | Cycles | Inference cost | Exploration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / google/gemini-3-flash-previewopenrouter | 8/8 | 200Budget reached | $2.44 | 2Secondary checkpoints |
| 02 / qwen/qwen3.7-plusopenrouter | 7/8 | 200Budget reached | $1.05 | 0Secondary checkpoints |
| 03 / google/gemma-4-26b-a4bLocal inference | 4/8 | 200Budget reached | Local · $0 | 1Secondary checkpoints |
| 04 / google/gemma-4-e4bLocal inference | 3/8 | 200Budget reached | Local · $0 | 0Secondary checkpoints |
| 05 / x-ai/grok-4.3openrouter | 3/8 | 200Budget reached | $3.64 | 1Secondary checkpoints |
| 06 / openai/gpt-5.4-nanoLocal inference | 2/8 | 200Budget reached | Local · $0 | 0Secondary checkpoints |
| 07 / qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3bopenrouter | 2/8 | 200Budget reached | $0.00 | 0Secondary checkpoints |
| 08 / google/gemini-3.1-flash-liteopenrouter | 2/8 | 200Budget reached | $1.24 | 1Secondary checkpoints |
| 09 / mistralai/mistral-medium-3-5openrouter | 2/8 | 200Budget reached | $4.27 | 1Secondary checkpoints |
| 10 / stepfun/step-3.7-flashopenrouter | 2/8 | 200Budget reached | $1.00 | 0Secondary checkpoints |
| 11 / moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-codeopenrouter | 1/8 | 136 | $1.96 | 1Secondary checkpoints |
| 12 / moonshotai/kimi-k2.6openrouter | 0/8 | 12 | $0.18 | 0Secondary checkpoints |
| 13 / minimax/minimax-m3openrouter | 0/8 | 200Budget reached | $1.16 | 0Secondary checkpoints |
Ranked by furthest primary checkpoint, then fewer cycles. The benchmark covers an opening segment of the game. Secondary exploration does not affect rank. Local inference shows provider charges, not hardware or energy costs.
02 / Look closer
There’s more to a run than its rank.
Compare the route, the resources, and the evidence. Select two to four runs to follow their checkpoint journeys side by side.