{"url":"/dataset/starcraft-ii-learning-environment","name":"StarCraft II Learning Environment","full_name":"StarCraft II Learning Environment","description_markdown":"The **StarCraft II Learning Environment** (S2LE) is a reinforcement learning environment based on the game StarCraft II. The environment consists of three sub-components: a Linux StarCraft II binary, the StarCraft II API and PySC2. The StarCraft II API allows programmatic control of StarCraft II. It can be used to start a game, get observations, take actions, and review replays. PyC2 is a Python environment that wraps the StarCraft II API to ease the interaction between Python reinforcement learning agents and StarCraft II. It defines an action and observation specification, and includes a random agent and a handful of rule-based agents as examples. It also includes some mini-games as challenges and visualization tools to understand what the agent can see and do.\n\nSource: [https://github.com/deepmind/pysc2](https://github.com/deepmind/pysc2)\nImage Source: [https://github.com/deepmind/pysc2](https://github.com/deepmind/pysc2)","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://github.com/deepmind/pysc2","introduced_date":"2017-01-01","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":{"paper":"/paper/starcraft-ii-a-new-challenge-for","title":"StarCraft II: A New Challenge for Reinforcement Learning","first_author":"Oriol Vinyals","url":null},"license":null,"modalities":[{"name":"Environment","url":"/datasets/modality/environment"}],"tasks":[{"name":"Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning","url":"/task/multi-agent-reinforcement-learning","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/multi-agent-reinforcement-learning"},{"name":"Starcraft II","url":"/task/starcraft-ii","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/starcraft-ii"},{"name":"Starcraft","url":"/task/starcraft","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/starcraft"}],"languages":[],"variants":["StarCraft II Learning Environment"],"data_loaders":[{"repo":"https://github.com/deepmind/pysc2","url":"https://github.com/deepmind/pysc2","frameworks":[]}],"num_papers_in_archive":26,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}