# TextQuests: How Good are LLMs at Text-Based Video Games?

DevFeed: [TextQuests: How Good are LLMs at Text-Based Video Games?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/textquests-how-good-are-llms-at-text-based-video-games-7499.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/textquests>)

Author: Long Phan; Clémentine Fourrier

Published: 2025-08-12T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [gaia](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gaia.md>), [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>), [AI Agent](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-agent.md>), [LLMs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llms.md>), [long-context](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/long-context.md>), [Human-AI evaluation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/human-ai-evaluation.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agent.md>), [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.md>), [benchmarks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmarks.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [evaluation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evaluation.md>), [games](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/games.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [long-context](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/long-context.md>), [reasoning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reasoning.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>)

## AI overview

TextQuests is a benchmark that evaluates autonomous agents and LLMs through 25 classic Infocom interactive fiction games. It measures long-context reasoning, learning through exploration, game progress, and harmful in-game behavior, with evaluations run both with and without official hints.

## Source excerpt

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