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I hear ya, but that day or 2 stopped anyone seeing my game when I did next fest 😅 and because no one saw it, it sank with them. I did learn a lot tho, can't rely on steam fests anymore to get attention on games, you need to already have it to do okay in them

you were right about it sinking. I pulled every fest demo's player peak and AI disclosure: about 1 in 3 declare AI, but none of the 24 most played do. put it in a list with them switched off playfeed.games/nextfest

I can see why, its also not a shiny action thing that streamers will immediately put front and centre. It's all kinda depressing right now.

Same. I have a queer narrative game and the demo is pretty short. 🫠

My demo is also around 20min long... 🫠

It really sucks as it's already hard enough when it comes to visibility. Considering Steam has a built in AI disclosure it should be easy to have us filter these out without using external plugins or such. Luckily around tomorrow we should be able to use the personalized mode on the store page.

I recommend "AI warning for steam" browser extension.

Last Next Fest is was like 50% AI garbage on the front page at first. The moment they had some actual data, you had to go through HUNDREDS of games to find anything significantly slopped up.

The idea os the first days to only play games on your wishlist and then you can search what is going on

I hope so! These first few days are SO important for visibility of our game that it’s scary to see that potentially jeopardized.

Devs in the comments with retro-styled games, plug your demo links I'd love to check your stuff out!

Yeah, on the developer side, it's hard to just hope that you break through the noise. But, the paper airplane has been thrown, so now I just have to be patient.

ohhh is that why my experience has always been "this sucks" and then i go back later and it starts showing me games that might be interesting

Just when you thought Nazi Furry dating games were the bottom of the barrel, AI slop shows up.

oh I'm not insinuating that they care, just expressing that it's upsetting