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Dark Gothic survivor-style action with free loot drops and deep build crafting. Choose from Barbarian, Mage, and Assassin; evolve five skill paths and hunt legendary gear. Carve through undead hordes, grow from a lone survivor, a…
The game supports multiple interface languages, and some visual assets were generated using AI.
2D Images, UI Elements, Unspecified
A mesmerizing cooperative exploration for two to eight people, or a sandbox for one. Explore the colors and motion dynamics, save presets of your favorites to enjoy later and swap with others, and share a canvas with a friend, or…
Swirl Together contains a rotoscoping/masking model similar to Adobe’s roto brush, or Davinci Resolve's magic masking tool, and a depth-estimating model for colliders.
Other
Build a quiet fishing harbor in an atmospheric idle strategy game. Send your fleet to sea, sell the catch, expand warehouses and buildings, collect captain and ship cards, and sail from a peaceful bay toward dangerous depths.
Some visual assets were AI-assisted, then manually edited by our team. No AI content is generated during gameplay.
2D Images
Turn an aging cleanroom into a thriving semiconductor fab. Follow every FOUP, break bottlenecks, protect yield and delivery, outthink rival factories, and grow from N28 to A10 across 32 handcrafted story missions.
Generative AI was used during development to create selected pre-generated store graphics, story illustrations, and in-game art. These assets were reviewed and edited before inclusion. The game does not generate AI content at runtime and does not send player input or personal data to AI services.
2D Images, Marketing Assets
Megachest is an incremental game about opening chests, discovering legendary loot, and building your ultimate fortune empire! Start with simple rewards and grow into a master of magic and riches as you unlock rare items, upgrade …
About 10% of this game’s art assets were created with AI-assisted design, including some combat scenes and talent icons. All AI-generated content was reviewed, adjusted, and polished by artists. The remaining art assets were hand-crafted.
2D Images, UI Elements
An atmospheric fantasy visual novel set on Lake Zurich. Make meaningful choices, uncover the mystery of the final entry, and guide Liva through a story with multiple endings.
Generative AI tools were used during development to assist with some pre-generated visual assets and with drafting, editing, and localization of text. All AI-assisted content was reviewed, edited, curated, and integrated by the developer before inclusion in the game. No content is generated by AI during gameplay.
2D Images, Writing, Localization
The Sun is dead. Humanity survives in eternal darkness. Awaken among the corpses as Nameless, guided by a living heart. Explore a dying world, master forbidden magic, and decide what future humanity deserves.
The game features AI-generated images, music, tilesets, videos, and some scripts.
2D Images, Music, Code, Video
Sculpt colorful clay against the clock — and against your friends. Everyone gets the same challenge; see whose creation comes closest. Rush it in Speed Mode for gloriously lopsided results, or perfect it in Master Mode.
Generative AI tools were used during development to assist with the creation of selected promotional and visual assets. During gameplay, an AI-based analysis service may also be used to evaluate submitted player-created clay sculptures and determine how closely they match the given challenge.
Marketing Assets, 2D Images, Runtime AI
Leverage Real Estate Simulator is an incremental clicker game. Play as an ambitious, ruthless property developer and expand your capital empire through a cycle of borrowing money, buying land, constructing and selling properties—…
AI was used to assist in designing the game’s UI icons.
UI Elements
Nozile is a fast-paced hack-and-slash roguelike where you start with a fully realized build. Pick 2 styles, swap in real-time, absorb Stat Orbs directly from fallen enemies, and break the game in intense 5-minute runs.
All programming and game music (BGM) are generated by AI.
Code, Music
A tower defence you fight in first person. One road, one base, and thirty kinds of enemies walking down it. You meet them yourself with six guns and and build different kinds of defensive turrets.
Generative AI was used during development as an assistive tool for some 2D art including weapon reload animation frames and magazine props
2D Images, Animation
Stack. Mislead. Wipe them out. A punishing tower defense about building a fortress out of stacked blocks. Every tower is a weapon, a wall, and a piece of terrain that leads enemies astray. Let 50 through and it is over.
This game uses AI for some of its images and programming.
2D Images, Code