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90% of them are hentai AI slop garbage.
I saw one game that was a 5 minute black screen with someone talking teenage-level philosophy. There was a handful of clicks to make in the whole playthrough.
Steam has a lot of low-quality games. The volume of stuff shipped with Synty Studios assets from Humble Bundles is crazy.
Indie games are doing great. Shovelware is doing meh as it always should be.
The sad thing is that on some level indie games do get pushed out by shovelware on a certain level.
Number of games released was never really a good metric. Review count is probably a bit better, but people buy games released before the current year too.
Right? This just reminds me of how platforms were flooded with clones of clones of clones when mobile games started becoming a thing back in the 2010s.
A ratio between hours played and sale counts would be a better metric.
Boring grind and hours of fun are tracked just the same
It doesn't really matter for the purposes of filtering out slop, although you'd need to account for people like me with huge libraries with tons of good games we've never played.
No single metric is going to give a good picture of what's good or not. You'd need several layers of filters.
Number of people still playing over a year after launch probably isn't a bad one to look at.
RTFA.
More likely "Simulator"s and AI-gen retro/2D games. Most are usually just copy and paste of something that was successful but with different skin/title/theme.
The proof is in the tags and search filters using Steam.
Although Hentai may appear at the top of New Releases it's because those trend with higher sales.
Visual Novels are probably in a close 2nd and most of those are now AI-gen now so the pump is flowing fast.
I keep seeing that AI simulator shit, too. It's really irritating. Especially since streamers play the games and the content keeps spreading.
What is an AI simulator? Is it a simulation game made using gen-AI, or a simulation game where you interact with gen-AI?
Lol, I wasn't super clear on that.
It's a game like Water Park Simulator where you run a water park. At least some of the images are clearly generated with AI, and I'm certain they vibe coded the game as well; used an LLM to generate some or all of the code.
Yuck, no thanks! But thanks for the clarification🌊
The hentai ai slop seems to make the front page, so it seems to be doing fine.