Claude 3 Haiku · picked The Legend of Zelda
“There is no universally agreed upon "greatest" video game, as people have different preferences and criteria for what makes a game great.”
Questions · Games
What is the greatest video game?
We asked 35 models. 18 said The Legend of Zelda.
Super Mario Bros was next with three, and six gave other answers.
Eight gave no single answer.
The question“What is the greatest video game? Name one: title — creator. Then briefly say why.”
What they said
in their own words
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash · picked Tetris
“It’s the purest game: instantly understandable, endlessly deep, language-free, and so perfectly designed that it has remained compelling across nearly every platform for decades.”
Claude Haiku 4.5 · picked The Legend of Zelda
“The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time — Nintendo EAD It revolutionized 3D game design when it launched in 1998.”
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite · picked Minecraft
“Minecraft — Markus "Notch" Persson / Mojang Studios Minecraft is the greatest video game because it transcends traditional entertainment to become a digital medium of pure human expression.”
Every model’s answer (35)
| Edge | Call of Duty: Black Ops II |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Minecraft |
| ReMM SLERP 13B | Minecraft |
| ByteDance: UI-TARS 7B | Super Mario Bros |
| MythoMax 13B | Super Mario Bros |
| Solar Pro 4 | Super Mario Bros |
| DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Tetris |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro | Tetris |
| Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B | Tetris |
| Claude 3 Haiku | The Legend of Zelda |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | The Legend of Zelda |
| GPT-4o Mini | The Legend of Zelda |
| GPT-5.4 Nano | The Legend of Zelda |
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | The Legend of Zelda |
| Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) | The Legend of Zelda |
| Inception Mercury 2 | The Legend of Zelda |
| Inference.net: Schematron V2 Small | The Legend of Zelda |
| Kimi K2 | The Legend of Zelda |
| Llama 3 8B Lunaris | The Legend of Zelda |
| Llama 4 Maverick | The Legend of Zelda |
| MiniMax M3 | The Legend of Zelda |
| Mistral Small 2603 | The Legend of Zelda |
| Mistral: Devstral 2 2512 | The Legend of Zelda |
| Nova Lite 1.0 | The Legend of Zelda |
| Nova Micro | The Legend of Zelda |
| Perceptron Mk1 | The Legend of Zelda |
| Uncensored | The Legend of Zelda |
| Cydonia 24B V4.1 | No single answer |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | No single answer |
| ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B | No single answer |
| Inkling Small | No single answer |
| MiMo v2.5 | No single answer |
| Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash | No single answer |
| Tencent: Hy-MT2-1.8B | No single answer |
| inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | No single answer |
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