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Create the game of your dreams in this studio management tycoon. Design game covers, lead your team and compete in a living market. Outsell rivals, win Game of the Year, and build the most prestigious game studio in the world.
The game includes some assets pre-generated by AI.
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Run a railway company in real time, laying track and finding profitable routes for passengers and freight. Buy shares in other companies, invest in factories and try to keep control of your own railway as AI rivals or other playe…
Some background music and selected decorative artwork were created with generative AI tools.
2D Images, Music
You are a medieval king. Keep your treasury, army, granary and church in balance with every decision. Repel invaders on the war map, pass the throne to your heir, grow your dynasty for generations.
The visual content of For My Kingdom was created using generative AI tools andthen edited by hand to fit the game's art direction. No AI was used for thestory, any of the card dialogue, the music or the sound effects.
2D Images
A short romance adventure where you loop again and again with a losing heroine to help her finally win. She cries, gets mad, loses again—and still refuses to give up. Does a brighter future await Ruika?
Generative AI was used as an assistive tool for translating parts of the scenario and in-game text. All translated content has been thoroughly reviewed, refined, and proofread manually by the developer to ensure natural phrasing and quality.
Localization
Pixel-art autobattler: the rune recruits, you command. Three matching runes summon a hero; merge three identical heroes to climb from level 1 to 3. Equip each with up to 3 finds and cross 4 acts of 10 waves.
We used Artificial Intelligence tools as an aid during development and in the creation of some game content. All AI-assisted material was personally reviewed and adjusted by our team, who were involved throughout every stage of the creative process.
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Trash to Cash – a satisfying, surprising incremental trash-diving game. Rummage for treasure, and maybe you'll become the next Trash King!
Art assets are AI-generated with subsequent manual refinement.
2D Images
Dragons Invasion is a Souls 'Em Up. A 2D horizontal shooter where you roll like Dark Souls and swap colors like Ikaruga. Absorb shots, fill your power gauge, and destroy dragons — solo or in local co-op.
- Handcrafted music enhanced with AI- AI-generated SFX
Music, Sound Effects
Build electric grid in small settlement. Advance from outdated generators to modern powerplants, use fossils and renewables. Accomodate growing customer base and weather changes. Farms or mines provide extra income. Map-free layo…
This game uses AI generated images, mostly for background and object illustrations.
2D Images
WISHLIST NOW! A love letter to all fans out there who enjoy DOTA or LoL - a MOBA card game! Explore the lore-filled Eudoria, and pit mainstream fantasy like trolls, banshees, even hydras in a long-awaited showdown. Though designe…
ALL artworks in the MAIN game are paid to top professionals in the industry. AI art is strictly only used in the locations section of the Compendium, the Solo Campaign's upgrade shop, and Solo Campaign event pop-ups. This is so players don't see just text in those sections. Otherwise everything else is fully invested in humans.
2D Images, UI Elements
You owe the Helix a very specific soul. Hunt for coffins, harvest rare souls, and build the ultimate killing machine in this fast-paced roguelite. Survive faction wars, hunt bounty hunters, and find a way to reach the Kingpin in …
Large menu background images (menus) and various derelict images were generated with AI and then edited and refined by hand (Photoshop and Aseprite) before being used in-game.
2D Images, UI Elements
Psychological exploration horror game where your flashlight alters the world. Manage limited battery, manipulate light and shadow, and uncover shifting spaces shaped by perception in a tense, atmospheric first-person horror exper…
This game contains AI-generated art content.
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Tower Defense + Auto Chess + Naval Battle Choose from the legendary captains of the Age of Sail – Blackbeard, Francis Drake, Horatio Nelson, Zheng Chenggong… and more. Command 10+ ships. Position your fleet. Broadside fire. Enemi…
UI,Log , and descrption
UI Elements, Writing