awesome, thank you!

I got you! Thanks so much!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3367180/HitTube_Demo/ creating an open world solo with my own assets without AI, I believe such dedication is worth a positive review from your curator page

thanks so much for the kind words zarathustra <333

You do the great job, thank you for your reviews, l1zardgod!

I can not search every detail, you're right. It's on me, I deeply apologize, I thought I had marked my review as informational. I have now since changed the review to 'informational' on Fortune Avenue, as I have no proof you have used AI in it and I believe you on it.

You have, however, utilized gen AI in the past regarding game development and imaging; so even if you have not used it officially, it has been utilized at one point or another for the official gaming process.

It will always be up to the consumer on whether they want to purchase a game and where they draw a line regarding AI usage. My reviews are only to inform the consumer on a game's dev team history, past and present, with AI. It wouldn't be fair to label it as 'no AI', when I hold other games to the same standard across the board, regardless of budget, team size, or what point they used AI in it.

Thanks for letting me know about your views on it and talking to me about it though.

Part 4
There is always noise, problems of color balance, inconsistencies. And correcting these problems takes more time than doing it yourself. So ethically I don't support LLMs, there is a problem regarding the climate, a problem regarding authors rights, but also their result is at best mediocre. And if tomorrow I use LLMs, I become dependent on big companies. And it's a risk I don't want to take.

So yes, I talk about LLMs. I talk about things they do well, but also things they do badly. But one thing I don't talk about on my discord is politics. And I think I should share it here, but I sign petitions that are carried by the French government to force the regulation of AIs. But also to limit their expansion.

But you know what hurts this fight against LLMs the most? It's the trials by intention against them. To the wise listener.

Part 3
It was just a discussion between members of a discord server, in 2023.

When I was working on Fortune Avenue, I had to do the Steam capsule of the game. And I asked myself the question. Because my email box is overflowing with invitations to use LLMs. Whether it's perplexity, claude... not a day goes by without me receiving an email to talk about the latest "innovations" of LLMs. It's like that, I have a public email, I make video games, I receive spam. At the beginning I looked, it was new I didn't know. And after doing tests I realized that the result wasn't there. That an AI could never make a Steam capsule of a quality comparable to that of a human.

But how to know without testing, without understanding? Rejecting everything in block is not a solution. You have to understand what is wrong to know why you shouldn't use it. And multimodal generative LLMs don't allow to have a smooth render, like what I do with Inkscape.

Part 2
You will see that everything is made by hand, really everything. Besides, I streamed almost all the development of Fortune Avenue on Twitch...

Now for the code. Yeah I looked at what LLMs were doing, what you call IAs. And it generates code so rubbish, that I would never use it in my games. I use technologies like LSP, or intellisense, but it has nothing to do with LLMs. For translations I have a hard time to manage, because lately everything relies on LLMs. And outside of libretranslate.com I don't find any efficient service.

Now, on the discord, I talk about plenty of things. In 2018 I talked about a cloud service, DeepL, that I paid to do the translations. But not anymore, because it relies on LLMs. So yes, I changed my work method. I don't use DeepL anymore since around 2023. I did test AppScenario for the capsule of City Game Studio, but if you had looked at the images, you would have noticed that they never came out of Discord.

Part 1
I want to be sure I understand correctly. In 2018, I was using DeepL to do the translations for my games.
In 2018, ChatGPT didn't exist, so LLMs we didn't really know what it was. In 2018 Fortune Avenue didn't exist. In 2018, City Game Studio wasn't public. Anyway.

To be fully transparent, I am a solo game dev. So everything in my games is made by me or people I pay. The musics of my games are made by artists. I hired Conciliator for the musics of City Game Studio, and a music group from Montreal for Fortune Avenue. For Sneak In, I bought rights for some generic musics on sites like musicloop.

Regarding the marketing images. Everything is done with Inkscape. That's why it has a curious look, smooth. It's the result of vectorial drawing. Now, all graphic assets are made with Inkscape. And all 3D assets are made with Blender. I won't share the original source files, but if needed I can share screenshots of those files.

Part 2

In regards to the translations, you mention that you use DeepL and mention that it is AI based in 2020, meaning you did know it was AI based and continued to use it and recommend it after 2018.

It may be true that you don't use AI to *make* your game and I'll take your word for it, but there is evidence that you are using AI for your company and translations, even if it's not specifically for the game I reviewed (Fortune Avenue).

My reviews are for the people to make their decision whether or not they want to support generative AI being used and to what point they are comfortable supporting developers/companies that use AI at any point for any part of the games they produce.

Part 1
@Binogure, I am going to leave my review for Fortune Avenue as is.

I do state that I don't factor in using enemy/traditional AI as it is different from generative AI.

You do use generative AI in City Game Studio's capsule image as you discuss in the official Discord that you used AppScenario for the image generation in 2023.

You also mention in 2024 that you would support AI generated game covers, which does not pertain to the games you create, but I feel it's worth mentioning in general. It's often I see people who support AI, tend to use AI in their hobbies/work at some point, even if they do post some anti-ai messages now, such as in this case. There's definitely more I could reach at for your support of AI even in 2025, but I feel like it will border on being excessive; it is in the official Discord as of writing this, if someone feels they need that information though.

Hey,

Thank you for reviewing the game I made. I'm the dev behind Fortune Avenue and City Game Studio. However you might have been mistaken when I talk about AI, I talk about bots, not AI LLMs on my discord server.

I know, in 2018 I mentionned I used a Cloud AI translator, it was deepl. Back then deepl wasn't relying on LLM. It has changed since, and now Deepl use LLM. I'm changing my tool for something else (I've tried libretranslate.com , and looking for other that are libre and open source.).

Also, I don't use any LLM to make my game. I learn by making games.

Have a nice day.

That's so awesome to hear! I updated the review, thanks so much!

Hey I'm one of the Factory 95 devs, we don't use any generative AI in the game!

Mystic Explorer added, thanks!

Hii.
Can you add " Mystic Explorer/ ?
Background and icons generated using AI.

I have not seen the AI banners, so I will look into that :O

In terms of Larian, I am still adding it. There's no excuse to use AI, even if it's unused in the end result. I take a very strict stance on AI and I don't pick and choose what is consider as AI use. If AI was used at any point, it used AI, no exceptions. I understand that some people may not include it as AI use, but I want people to have transparency on their purchases regardless on their take of it :3

Hi
You can add "House Flipper" and "House Flipper 2"
The dev uses AI for banners in Steam News.



Also, you can stop worrying for Larian. They have publicly announced they would never uses genAI - at least in Divinity. They have also publicly said AI produces low quality assets, and that it (AI) fails to achieve their quality standards, so even if we had not pushed them to pledge to not use it, they were not impressed by it and would not have used it.

We have to take their word but I think they deserve the benefit of the doubt.

Added Expedition 33! Thanks!

Could you add Expedition 33 to the list? Even though they may not be using Gen AI right now, they had previously used and included it on the original release of the game.

Source is multiple news articles.

Tragic! I loved the new Baldur, I'll try to remember when the game is added to Steam to mention it. They created such beautiful stories and concepts without genAI so far, why start now; I was really looking forward to the new game too T.T

Next Divinity game heavily uses genai

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-12-16/-baldur-s-gate-3-maker-promises-divinity-will-be-next-level?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2NTg5MzY2NSwiZXhwIjoxNzY2NDk4NDY1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUN0Q4ODFLSVAzSTkwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.D26Cs7X_5kH5HuJT2frcX_AMIXyuXWefzz5NK2VlXEI&leadSource=uverify%20wall