AMONGAGENTS: Evaluating Large Language Models in the Interactive Text-Based Social Deduction Game

TL;DR

This paper introduces AmongAgents, a text-based environment modeled after Among Us, to evaluate large language models' understanding and decision-making in social deduction scenarios with incomplete information.

Contribution

It presents a novel simulation environment for testing LLMs in complex social deduction tasks inspired by Among Us, highlighting their ability to understand rules and make context-based decisions.

Findings

LLMs can understand game rules effectively

LLMs make decisions based on current context

The environment enables assessment of LLMs in social deduction scenarios

Abstract

Strategic social deduction games serve as valuable testbeds for evaluating the understanding and inference skills of language models, offering crucial insights into social science, artificial intelligence, and strategic gaming. This paper focuses on creating proxies of human behavior in simulated environments, with Among Us utilized as a tool for studying simulated human behavior. The study introduces a text-based game environment, named AmongAgents, that mirrors the dynamics of Among Us. Players act as crew members aboard a spaceship, tasked with identifying impostors who are sabotaging the ship and eliminating the crew. Within this environment, the behavior of simulated language agents is analyzed. The experiments involve diverse game sequences featuring different configurations of Crewmates and Impostor personality archetypes. Our work demonstrates that state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) can effectively grasp the game rules and make decisions based on the current context. This work aims to promote further exploration of LLMs in goal-oriented games with incomplete information and complex action spaces, as these settings offer valuable opportunities to assess language model performance in socially driven scenarios.