‘AI slop fest’: PC gamers are annoyed with Steam Next Fest’s abundance of AI titles
The latest Steam Next Fest event went live yesterday, showcasing playable demos for upcoming titles coming to the PC platform, offering a glimpse into what’s next in gaming. Usually, Next Fest is full of fun demos that players discover for the first time, wishlisting them and giving them something to look forward to. But this time around, a lot of the conversation has to do with the use of AI in game dev, because there are a lot of blatantly obvious ones popping up, even more so than usual. Screenshot by Destructoid https://embeds.beehiiv.com/a8d62108-86ed-4039-bf49-44877ba62c15 Some of the games featured during this iteration of Steam Next Fest are very clearly using AI-generated assets, such as this one above called Agile Team. The whole thing looks like it was made from prompts. No, thank you. But if you want to give it a try, by all means, go ahead. Players and Steam users began posting their displeasure promptly yesterday on the Steam Reddit page, calling this event “AI Slop Fest” and asking for a report function for games that don’t disclose AI usage in their development. But another issue is that it’s not always so abundantly obvious when a game is using AI in development. And even then, the Artificial Intelligence tag that Steam has for game devs to use as an option isn’t always being utilized properly. In my search on Next Fest, it says just 148 games use the tag. The actual number is likely way, way higher. AI in game dev isn’t going anywhere, but I’m all for people having the option to try and avoid them if possible. For someone like me who plays games for my job, it’s not at all possible, but for those who want to support game devs who don’t use AI and not those who do, then it appears the tag needs some work. The whole system does, I guess. I don’t have the answer to any of this. It’s likely that most games being made nowadays are using some form of AI, whether it’s using Claude for coding or image generation to create in-game art assets. How do you differentiate between how AI is being used? Where’s the line drawn between acceptable and unacceptable AI usage? I have a headache. The post ‘AI slop fest’: PC gamers are annoyed with Steam Next Fest’s abundance of AI titles appeared first on Destructoid.
The latest Steam Next Fest event went live yesterday, showcasing playable demos for upcoming titles coming to the PC platform, offering a glimpse into what’s next in gaming.
Usually, Next Fest is full of fun demos that players discover for the first time, wishlisting them and giving them something to look forward to. But this time around, a lot of the conversation has to do with the use of AI in game dev, because there are a lot of blatantly obvious ones popping up, even more so than usual.
Screenshot by Destructoid https://embeds.beehiiv.com/a8d62108-86ed-4039-bf49-44877ba62c15 Some of the games featured during this iteration of Steam Next Fest are very clearly using AI-generated assets, such as this one above called Agile Team. The whole thing looks like it was made from prompts. No, thank you. But if you want to give it a try, by all means, go ahead.
Players and Steam users began posting their displeasure promptly yesterday on the Steam Reddit page, calling this event “AI Slop Fest” and asking for a report function for games that don’t disclose AI usage in their development. But another issue is that it’s not always so abundantly obvious when a game is using AI in development. And even then, the Artificial Intelligence tag that Steam has for game devs to use as an option isn’t always being utilized properly. In my search on Next Fest, it says just 148 games use the tag. The actual number is likely way, way higher.
AI in game dev isn’t going anywhere, but I’m all for people having the option to try and avoid them if possible. For someone like me who plays games for my job, it’s not at all possible, but for those who want to support game devs who don’t use AI and not those who do, then it appears the tag needs some work. The whole system does, I guess.
I don’t have the answer to any of this. It’s likely that most games being made nowadays are using some form of AI, whether it’s using Claude for coding or image generation to create in-game art assets. How do you differentiate between how AI is being used? Where’s the line drawn between acceptable and unacceptable AI usage?
I have a headache.
The post ‘AI slop fest’: PC gamers are annoyed with Steam Next Fest’s abundance of AI titles appeared first on Destructoid.
Usually, Next Fest is full of fun demos that players discover for the first time, wishlisting them and giving them something to look forward to. But this time around, a lot of the conversation has to do with the use of AI in game dev, because there are a lot of blatantly obvious ones popping up, even more so than usual.
Screenshot by Destructoid https://embeds.beehiiv.com/a8d62108-86ed-4039-bf49-44877ba62c15 Some of the games featured during this iteration of Steam Next Fest are very clearly using AI-generated assets, such as this one above called Agile Team. The whole thing looks like it was made from prompts. No, thank you. But if you want to give it a try, by all means, go ahead. Players and Steam users began posting their displeasure promptly yesterday on the Steam Reddit page, calling this event “AI Slop Fest” and asking for a report function for games that don’t disclose AI usage in their development. But another issue is that it’s not always so abundantly obvious when a game is using AI in development. And even then, the Artificial Intelligence tag that Steam has for game devs to use as an option isn’t always being utilized properly. In my search on Next Fest, it says just 148 games use the tag. The actual number is likely way, way higher.
AI in game dev isn’t going anywhere, but I’m all for people having the option to try and avoid them if possible. For someone like me who plays games for my job, it’s not at all possible, but for those who want to support game devs who don’t use AI and not those who do, then it appears the tag needs some work. The whole system does, I guess.
I don’t have the answer to any of this. It’s likely that most games being made nowadays are using some form of AI, whether it’s using Claude for coding or image generation to create in-game art assets. How do you differentiate between how AI is being used? Where’s the line drawn between acceptable and unacceptable AI usage?
I have a headache.
The post ‘AI slop fest’: PC gamers are annoyed with Steam Next Fest’s abundance of AI titles appeared first on Destructoid.
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