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TavernGym and TavernBench: a faithful, full-content Hearthstone Battlegrounds simulator with an RL interface, and a 960-task decision benchmark. Code and data for "Build, Don't Play".

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GITHUB · launched Oct 24, 2026 · 134 upvotes (top 9%) · 0 views

Niche: ai game generation and simulation tools · 122 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▲ +18% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Media & entertainment
  • Observability & eval
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • game-ai
  • hearthstone
  • reinforcement-learning
  • rust

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Could you build this?

Partial The benchmark UI, RL wrapper, and data pipelines are codeable with AI help. A faithful, full-content Hearthstone Battlegrounds engine that matches the real game's rules and card interactions is a large, detail-heavy effort that also needs careful evaluation design.

What it would actually take: The stack is a game engine in Python or TypeScript exposing a Gym-style RL interface, with card and minion data extracted from the game's card database. The hard part is reproducing the game's exact combat, trigger ordering, and hundreds of card-specific edge cases so that results are faithful. Building it requires deep knowledge of the game's mechanics, rigorous test suites against real game logs, and RL/benchmark design expertise.

Competitors

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Attention rank: #130 of 1375 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 358 days after the earliest competitor.

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