https://jmacc93.github.io/essays/skyrim_game_player.html
Here's a (long!) essay I wrote about what it would take to build a SOTA game playing agent that can finish a modern videogame zero-shot. It's an AGI; it would take an AGI to beat Skyrim. There's just no way around it as far as I can see. Note: I'm a layperson in machine learning and AI. I'm not involved in those fields professionally and am just a hobbyist