MCTS Game AI ML Frameworks

Game-playing AI agents and frameworks using Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithms. Includes implementations for board games, card games, and turn-based games with MCTS-based decision making. Does NOT include general reinforcement learning, non-game applications of MCTS, or game AI using other algorithmic approaches.

There are 26 mcts game ai frameworks tracked. 1 score above 50 (established tier). The highest-rated is bcollazo/catanatron at 65/100 with 388 stars.

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#	Framework	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	bcollazo/catanatron Settlers of Catan Bot Simulator and Strong AI Player	65	Established	388	Python
2	jbradberry/mcts Board game AI implementations using Monte Carlo Tree Search	46	Emerging	184	Python
3	yunzhu-li/blupig-gomoku A serious Gomoku board game AI written in C++	44	Emerging	76	C++
4	Alfo5123/Connect4 Monte Carlo Tree Search Based AI Connect 4 Bot	42	Emerging	41	Python
5	maxyurk/settlers_of_catan Full game implemented + AI/ML/OtherBuzzwords players (expectimax,...	38	Emerging	18	Python
6	NikhilGupta1997/Yinsh-AI An implementation of the game Yinsh. Support for clients to play on a central server.	32	Emerging	13	Python
7	morinim/pocket_mcts A minimal implementation of Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) in C++17	31	Emerging	4	C++
8	maxjiang216/corintho-ai AI for Corintho board game based on AlphaZero	31	Emerging	3	C++
9	hesic73/gomoku_rl train AI agents to master Free-style Gomoku(五子棋)	30	Emerging	25	Python
10	rlglab/strength-estimator [ICLR 2025] A strength system that can estimate the strength from games and...	29	Experimental	7	C++
11	Gualor/connect4-montecarlo Connect 4 AI using Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm.	28	Experimental	11	Python
12	OMerkel/Oware Oware and Ouril - traditional African Mancala games with computer AI using...	27	Experimental	12	HTML
13	ai-boson/mcts MCTS algorithm tutorial and it's explanation with code. Application of MCTS...	23	Experimental	32	Ruby
14	CyCTW/Surakarta-AI Build a Surakarta board game engine and implemented different strategy such...	23	Experimental	4	C++
15	tsonglew/Gomoku :black_circle: TUI Gomoku Game with Programmed AI	21	Experimental	13	Python
16	Aenteas/MCTS A fast C++ implementation of fully customizable Monte Carlo tree search	21	Experimental	7	C++
17	xboard/mcts_zuniq My submission to CodeCup 2021. A C++17 Monte Carlo Tree Search AI engine for...	17	Experimental	1	C++
18	asilva1704/ai-connect4 Artificial Intelligence project on Connect Four: Monte Carlo Tree Search...	15	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
19	L-I-M-I-T/AI_Gobang 根据博弈树的启发式搜索过程、设计α-β剪枝算法和评价函数开发的一个五子棋人机博弈游戏。	14	Experimental	18	Python
20	filevich/truco-mccfr-ai 🇺🇾 Uruguyan Truco External Sampling Monte Carlo CFR AI	13	Experimental	—	Go
21	Sherin-SEF-AI/NineNet-Go AlphaZero-style 9x9 Go engine with wxPython desktop UI, MCTS search, and...	12	Experimental	1	Python
22	lucaszhuang1210/Checkers-AI-Agent An AI agent for Checkers that uses Monte Carlo Tree Search to make adaptive...	11	Experimental	1	Python
23	Rreyth/42-Gomoku Intelligence artificielle compétitive pour Gomoku avec algorithme MinMax...	11	Experimental	—	C++
24	PFE-MCTS/MCTS-Games GenericGame is a generic Monte-Carlo tree search engine. This code has been...	11	Experimental	—	Python
25	michaelflppv/bohnenspiel This is a repository of the educational project within CS405 Artificial...	11	Experimental	—	Python
26	krishnaura45/mcts-variant-prediction Forecasting MCTS Variant Outcomes Across Board Games	10	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook

Comparisons in this category

catanatron and settlers_of_catan (65 vs 38) Connect4 and connect4-montecarlo (42 vs 28) pocket_mcts and MCTS (31 vs 21)