Steam Next Fest, community hides AI-declared demos as fest ends

Also wrapping the day up with an update to our Next Fest demo deluge. Now 20 games that I reckon you should try out!

God, so much of Next Fest is just AI www.rogue.site/editorials/i...

If you don't want to wade through the Next Fest AI slop, here's a demo from a publisher who refuses to work with AI: KILLSEC from dev TurboNerds and publisher @noquartersoft.bsky.social, who also published the excellent BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER BEFORE 4: DEMONS F store.steampowered.com/app/5122390/...

if you're a game designer or publisher annoyed by how much AI slop has infested Steam Next Fest making it even more impossible to stand out don't worry. by this time next year Valve will have everyone addicted to both Deadlock and Half-Life 3 and there won't be a pc games industry left anyway

In a world of AI gameslop, let’s actually have some fun. 🔥 Three demos we think you should check out this Next Fest: 1️⃣ Guns ‘n Goblins 2️⃣ DreadHaven: The Last Colony 3️⃣ Night Hike And all enjoyable in a variety of languages thanks to LocQuest. Fighting gameslop, one loc at a time. 🛡️

Some positivity amongst the sea of negativity about the Ai slop flood of Steam Next fest... here's a small win for my indie game (2+ years making all the art, anims, vfx, sounds, music etc). 30 days since Steam page went public and it's now over 100 wishlists! Thank you! ❤️ #gamedev #indiegame

I've seen enough: everyone in indie games seems to be sick of AI. it's all we're talking about. it's eroding our will. I think Next Fest was the breaking point for a lot of people

Tearoom of Terror: you inherit your aunt's tearoom, and her murder. Solve it by Halloween or end up on the menu. Free demo on Steam for Next Fest. Cozy murder mystery is my new favorite genre. #IndieGame

Epic loves AI. There is AI slop all over Steam Next Fest. Steam should make a hard stance and let Epic take the slop. It will clean up their store while everyone know Epic is known for slop city.

The Monkey's Paw demo is now playable during Steam Next Fest! A horror visual novel where choices matter... Painfully. Proudly made entirely by hand with no AI Link in reply

Still my top 5 Free Demo picks for Steam Next Fest. Give them a try! #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev @steampowered.com #nextfest

Supposedly Steam Next Fest is full of AI games! What do you think? Our game luckily was made AI-free 😌 #indiedev #gamedev #steamnextfest #roguelike

I don't want the red pill... Is there even a point ? The Next Fest speaks volumes about this. The AI games flood will probably just destroy the market and it's already exhausting gamers. I'll pick the blue pill and just don't care.🎮 #gamedev #indiedev

I went down a rabbit hole. here are some Steam Next Fest stats for your timeline⬇️ 20% of Platformers 33% of Racing games 36% of Sandbox games 38% of Roguelite games 53% of Tower Defense Games disclosed using AI to make their game this next fest

Got a late start with Next Fest cause I was sick for a whole week... Anyways, just pushed a demo update that adds pets and companions to the game! Please consider checking it out on Steam 🙏🙏🙏 s.team/a/5192440/ #indiegame #gaming #gamedev