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A cozy arcade roguelite. An old coin-op machine you find in the attic, and it still works. Aim true and time your hits in 2–4 minute runs. Every new monster you beat prints a sticker — where you stick it on the cabinet decides wh…
Generative AI was used during the development of this game. It does not generate any content with AI while you play.
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Ashrose Manor – A Portrait of Forbidden Love is a first-person gothic mystery game about memory, loss, and a love the Ashrose family tried to erase. Explore a forgotten manor, uncover hidden clues, restore a damaged portrait, and…
Generative AI was used to assist in the creation of selected 2D images, sprite assets, and marketing artwork, including some Steam capsule and store assets. It was also used for proofreading and editing written text. All AI-assisted content was reviewed, selected, and refined by the developer before being included in the game or official marketing materials.
2D Images, Writing
Haunted Echoes is a raw psychological horror game experienced through a bodycam perspective. Explore abandoned, eerie locations, manage your limited flashlight, face terrifying anomalies hidden in the dark, and try to survive a n…
Generative AI tools were used during development to create pre-generated voice lines/audio effects and a few 3D environment models/textures. All AI-generated assets have been reviewed, integrated statically into the game files, and do not contain any illegal or copyright-infringing material. The game does not generate any content in real-time using AI during live gameplay.
3D Models, Sound Effects, Voiceover
Run a struggling frontier agency in this single-player idle RPG. Recruit distinct heroes and build 4x4 formations. Automate commissions and forge gear as you push through an endless campaign where positioning morale and synergy d…
This game does not use generative AI at runtime and does not generate content based on player input. Generative AI was used during development to assist with some static artwork, icons, promotional images, and draft text. All such content was reviewed, edited, integrated, and approved by the developer.
2D Images, UI Elements, Marketing Assets, Writing
There's a cartoon jellyfish living on your desktop. It floats above your windows, makes coins while you type, then trades underwater stocks and unlocks more skins. It won't interrupt your work. It's just there to be cute. That's …
Generative AI was utilized to aid in the implementation of programming code, the production of visual assets, and translation tasks.
Code, 2D Images, Localization
A monster-collector roguelite. Pick a Mythia. Fight the horde. When creatures fall, escort their Exposed Souls to forge permanent Bonds in your Grimoire. Bond the same creature enough times and it reaches its Ascended Form.
Mythia Wild Bonds was designed and built by a solo developer, game design, art direction, sound direction, and architecture are all the developer's own. AI generation tools were used to accelerate production of pixel art, sound effects, and music, each piece selected, reworked, and approved within the game's art bible and audio direction; code was also developed with AI pair-programming assistance, with all game systems designed by the developer. No content is AI-generated at runtime.
2D Images, Code, Music, Sound Effects
Mutation is evolution. A lab cell broke containment — pilot it through swarming arenas where every upgrade you take drags you closer to meltdown. Grow billions of one-of-a-kind protocells, hand any of them to a friend with a 16-c…
Protocell's soundtrack was generated with an AI music tool, and a few interface layouts were explored with the help of AI image tool. Everything else — the code, the design, the pixel art and the procedurally generated creatures — is hand-crafted or produced by the game's own engine. No generative AI runs in real time while you play.
Music, UI Elements
Yathsel is a Wild West dice roguelite: play crooked Yahtzee-style hands, sneak loaded artifact dice from the smuggler under the table, and cheat your way past gunslinging rivals in a solo campaign, quick duels, and online saloons…
Some of this game's artwork (including store capsules and background art) was created with the help of generative AI image tools. All AI-assisted content was reviewed, edited, and curated by the developer. The game generates no AI content at runtime; opponent behavior uses traditional, hand-authored game logic
2D Images, Marketing Assets
A comedy physics shooting gallery: throw stuff, nail zany characters, and watch them ragdoll across mundane-yet-absurd locations. Unlock new areas by clearing targets off your list. Just you, a sackful of projectiles, and a deepl…
The game includes one AI-generated audio asset: a "BBL Drizzy" beat sampled from Metro Boomin instrumental.
2D Images, UI Elements
The Crazy Eights roguelike. Every 8 is wild: call the suit, keep the chain alive, and cash out monster combos. Build decks that bend the rules, stack House Rules that multiply each other, and break the casino one floor at a time.
Card face art, in-game icons, and some store artwork were created with AI assistance.
2D Images, UI Elements, Marketing Assets
A chest-looting incremental game. Loot chests, collect unique cards, and gain endless upgrades. Unlock stronger packs, discover more powerful cards, and keep expanding your collection without end.
Most of the code and game assets are AI-generated.
2D Images, 3D Models, Code
Learn to type on a keyboard with all ten fingers by typing the world map. Learn geography. That’s it, that’s the game. For kids and grownups.
AI tools have been used in game programming and localization. All audiovisual assets by human artists.
Code, Localization