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A dark arcade air hockey duel set in limbo. Strange opponents. No excuses. Just you and the puck. Easy to understand. Difficult to master. Welcome to Hell. Grab your paddle.
Puckn Hell's sound production processes and concepts have been supported by artificial intelligence.
Sound Effects, Ideation
A survivors-like arena roguelite. Pilot a drone, stack weapons and upgrades into absurd builds, and hold out against waves of mechas until the timer runs out. Every run ends. Every run teaches.
Some UI elements were created with generative AI.
UI Elements, Code
Necrovoid — a dark post-apocalyptic tactical RPG with 2d6 turn-based combat. In a world shattered by nuclear fire and Rifts, you carry a Black Parasite in your chest. Every death makes you stronger… and less human.
**Necrovoid** does not use generative AI during gameplay.During development, generative AI tools were used to create a small portion of in-game visual assets and some music tracks. All such material was carefully reviewed and adjusted by the developer before inclusion.
2D Images, Music
Fight your way up Olympus in a match-3 roguelite. Match runes to strike and heal, cast spells and claim relics, and find the weakness every foe is hiding. Nine realms, seven demigods, one life per run.
The front-end and some of the art-assets have been created with the help of AI.
2D Images, UI Elements, Unspecified
Build a political party in a fictional country and play for one thing: win power and keep it. Recruit politicians, conquer regions, win elections. There are clean paths and dirty games. Everyone has a price. What's yours?
Generative AI tools were used to assist with part of the game's localization (translations into several of the supported languages) and with some store-page and promotional materials (text and imagery). The game's design, code, systems and original writing were created by the developer; all AI-assisted output was reviewed and edited by a human.
2D Images, Marketing Assets, Localization
A casual casino themed idle game with a lot of replayability. Attract and cynically exploit your customers to expand your casino empire globally and beyond.
Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and ChatGPT/DALL-E 3 was used in the design and development process of this game.
Ideation
Command Captain Hope's ship in this strategic 2D space game. Build structures, deploy fleets, and manage resources to defend the Citadel against waves of enemies. Combine direct ship combat, tower defense, and base building as yo…
This game includes AI-generated content. Voice lines were created using ElevenLabs AI voice synthesis technology. Some sound effects were generated using AI tools. The intro sequence features AI-generated images that were heavily edited and manipulated in Adobe Photoshop as part of the artistic process.
2D Images, Sound Effects, Voiceover
A dice roguelike deckbuilder — Lock & Roll five dice to complete a hand, and the hand casts a spell. Flip the faces you're missing with sigils, stack 200 artifacts into the scoring formula, and watch runs explode into ridiculous …
Seferia: Matrix has used Ai in order to craft and stylized its artworks.
2D Images
After the death of his parents, a seminarian returns to his ruined village. Between the disappearance of a priest and ancient secrets, Brendyk investigates local tragedies and discovers hidden forces at work beneath the devastati…
Artificial intelligence was used as an auxiliary tool in production, including the creation of pre-generated voices and dubbing. The game does not use real-time generative AI and does not contain AI-generated images, 3D models, or animations.
Voiceover
Rent an apartment to finish your work and survive a night that grows increasingly strange. A first-person psychological horror game where routine, silence, and paranoia turn an ordinary place into somewhere impossible to leave.
Some descriptions, and translations were created with the assistance of generative AI and then reviewed and edited by the developer. No live AI-generated content is used during gameplay.
Writing, Localization
Roguelike deckbuilder where you run an Adventurers’ Guild. Combine heroes, weapons, and items into teams, fulfill quirky commissions, deal with difficult clients, and build the most powerful guild in the realm.
This game uses generative AI-assisted content in some pre-generated visual assets, such as visual effects, UI elements, and background or promotional artwork, as well as in localization. All AI-assisted content is reviewed and finalized by the developer. No live generative AI system is used during gameplay, and the game does not generate new player-facing content dynamically while the player is playing.
Code, 2D Images, Sound Effects, Localization
Place a card and its monster rises onto the board. A tactical card game, online and free, with no pay to win: every card is earned by playing, never from a gacha, and traded with other players in the Trade Hall and the Auction Ho…
Darcnia Monster is made by a single independent developer. Some of the game's visual assets — background illustrations, cinematic scenes, and character and card artwork — were created with the help of generative AI image tools, and the in-game character voices were produced using AI voice synthesis. Every AI-assisted asset was hand-selected, edited, and integrated by the developer to match the game's art direction and story. No AI runs while you play: nothing is generated in real time, and no player data is ever sent to any AI service.
2D Images, Voiceover