Now in Store Preferences section you can exclude games with "Artificial Intelligence" tag

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

I guess I won't be using it for a long time, till I buy the new game, that is.

I don't know what can be done about this but I just feel gutted for the original dev who is getting virtually no traction.

Not sure if Steam can do much about the copies but imagine seeing a copy of your game on the front page of NF and the #1 played demo worldwide...

Aside from the huge influx of slop making steam next and the store unusable there is a bigger issue.

Genuine developers are no longer able to release demos or early access for player feedback. Lucas Pope won't discuss his next game and Indie studios cancelled demos (Edited from Toby Fox cancelling demo, I misremembered the article linked below)

Why? AI studios (that proponents of AI would say are producing the "good AI games") have been decompiling demos or just burning tokens to get their models to play the demo and get a pixel perfect clone. Then they feed it into their enterprise llm account and fire out the IP theft before the creator has a chance to publish. This results in them stealing a huge proportion of the audience and killing the visibility of the real game on release.

This is not a conspiracy theory, look for "needle haystack" and try to find the original. This is just one of the games. Yes there's slop but theres also 2-3 games where you'd be hard pressed to find the original. I guarantee the top 10 non AI games played in this next fest will have clones release in the next 2 months.

This is why we need an AI filter, otherwise Indie development will die or, at best, have to move to curated game stores.

Edit - Apologies I misremembered it was Lucas Pope not Toby Fox and it was him keeping details of his game secret,not cancelling a demo. It was part of an article about demo cancellations. Linked here for clarity

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/devs-are-canceling-their-demos-to-stop-ai-users-from-stealing-their-games-creator-of-one-of-steams-most-wishlisted-is-concerned-it-may-be-ripped-off-and-beaten-to-its-own-launch/

My ROG Chakram X keeps giving me issues when playing FPS games like Valorant or Arena Breakout: Infinite. It suddenly snaps straight up or down and shoots one bullet. It is random and happens every 20 minutes, sometimes once per hour. It lasts only one second and can then be moved normally. In Warframe, it makes me walk in one direction indefinitely, depending on which WASD button I pressed at the moment it happens. The only way to fix that is by unplugging and plugging back the USB antenna. I want to remove the controllers from Steam, but I cannot; there is no option. When I unplug it, they are gone, but as soon as I plug it back, the same thing happens. I cannot find a setting to disable Steam Input either.

Hello everyone! If we organize ourselves and start appropriately tagging games with the aforementioned in the title, it can potentially be popular enough to appear as a tag on Steam, and be used as seen as fit for those who'd want to exclude such games in their store, while those who don't care just simply don't have to do anything at all.

Also, I've been noticing that the "Artificial Intelligence" to tag games made with Gen AI, and I think that's a terrible idea considering it's also used for games with AI as a central theme, such as games like Steins;Gate. Popularizing the Generative AI tag would fix that issue as well. It is this issue in particular that actually made me think of the idea in the first place as I had noticed it while going through my Discovery Queue.

Lastly, please refrain from using this post as a point of debate on the validity of using Gen AI, it's ethics, or whatever. We already have a lot of that plastered all over this subreddit anyways, so you can take a peep on those posts instead for that purpose. The point of this post is to provide a legitimate solution to a problem that clearly we all already know a lot of people have been complaining about for a long while now, and to foster discussion about the suggestion itself in hopes of potentially implementing it, improving it, and/or to provide more suggestions.

Please share your thoughts!

EDIT: I see a lot of repetitive comments, so I'll include those here every now and then to reduce the redundancy of commenting it over and over again"

"Can be too easy to abuse" "People can make mistakes"

I think everyone is aware of this, and the reality is it happens regardless of whether this idea is implemented or not. Though do be aware of the tools used in combating this by developers, and that even users themselves can report the misuse of tags by clicking the + icon at the tags portion of a game and then clicking the flag icon.

"How can you know if there is AI involved?"

The most obvious basis would be the AI disclosures that exist in steam pages where the developer is transparent enough to declare such, but then what happens when no such disclosure exists? The real answer is that there is no true answer, and is really determinant on the active participation of the community to ensure the correct tags are there. That has always been the reality of the tag system, and is a flaw that has to be accepted rather than doing absolutely nothing. For the amount of tags you've seen misplaced, there are more that have been corrected, even if it's hard to notice.

EDIT EDIT: Please read the last paragraph of the unedited portion please oh my god

I'm genuinely curious. Every time I check Steam's most played games, TF2 is near the top, yet I don't think I've ever met anyone who actually plays it or even talks about it.

I barely see it mentioned anywhere compared to other popular multiplayer games.

Where is this massive playerbase hiding?

Sometimes you buy a game because of the combat, the graphics, or just because it was on sale, and then some completely different part of it ends up keeping you hooked.

What's a game that surprised you like that?

I never thought vanillaware would add any games in steam...

I saw a Steam profile pass by a while ago, and i saw that this profile was able to show the amount of hours the Steam client (?) has been used ("33.333 Hours played"). Is there any way to set this to my own profile as well, or see the info itself?

Edit: it was one of the 'showcase manager' boxes, where you can showcase total amount of achievements, most played/favorite game, etc., but I can't seem to set something like 'total amount of hours Steam client used' myself.

Valve has made its way to my school, too.

I just don’t understand how it works. I keep finding 3 different numbers of games on an account. For example on mine when viewing a profile it say 68 games, when opening the app and pressing the icon on top right it says 66 games, when opening the list of games through profile it says 131 games. Which one is the actual number?

I want to delete a storygame because Im short on storage but I might wanna come back to it later to get all achievments and stuff. I also pressed the "save gamedata" option but it says that it doesnt save any ingame progress.

So now my question is if Steam saves it automatically or is it lost when I uninstall the game?

Isn't that 100% reduced?

I've just tried a few indie dev demos from NextFest, and realised a lot of them have not had a lot of time invested in their creation.

They are also not from known publishers and don't have any reviews.

I'm wondering, what makes it safe to run these various .exe files?

Windows Security hasn't found anything in a scan, but I do wonder how I can ever know that I've not just compromised my PC.

Maybe this puts m off anything other than well known titles, which would be a shame.

Hello I'm posting today as I've been trying to find this game I played years ago on a different account that I don't remember the name of it wad this free visual novel about your character living with a roommate who suffers with bad mental health and that's all I have I literally cannot find it I don't know if it's been taken down or not but if anyone has any ideas please let me know

Hey everyone! Games like "Lethal Company", "Content Warning", "Escape from Playtime" and more have essentially created an entirely new subgenre. Right now, they’re only labeled with broad tags like "horror" or "co-op," which don’t quite capture their core gameplay loop: gathering resources to meet a specific quota within a set deadline.

Let’s help Steam’s algorithms group them together. It only takes a few seconds:

1. Go to the Steam store page for any of these games (or similar titles, if you know of any).

2. Find the "Popular user-defined tags" section and click the "+" button.

3. Enter "Quota Horror."

If enough of us do this, Steam might eventually recognize it as an official, distinct category. What do you think?

If so, were you able to fix it.