The October Steam Next Fest ends today, and we decided to look into how many upcoming games claim they are using generative AI. Many of these games release in the next few months, which gives us a good current snapshot of where small to mid-size game development is at when it comes to generative AI.
By pulling the information from Steam about which Next Fest titles had enabled the AI Generated Content Disclosure, we discovered that over 500 demos disclosed using AI. The data here is necessarily imperfect, as it only counts the games that have disclosed AI Usage.
As we saw with games like The Alters, and Hotel Barcelona, some games will not disclose it on the Steam page but do use or had used generative AI. In the case of The Alters, their Steam page doesn't disclose that the game previously had generative AI content used in development.
The exact total of games disclosing generative AI was 507 games out of the total 2960 titles in Steam Next Fest. By briefly examining their AI Generated Content Disclosure, we found out that three of them had situations that made us believe they may not have qualified as using...
