I Played 10 Steam Demos Blind. Can You Spot the AI?

Описание: Steam Next Fest has over 7,000 free demos right now, and Steam has no filter for the ones made with AI. So I played 10 demos blind and guessed which ones carry Steam's AI label. Bot or not?

I got 7 out of 10. The 3 I missed show what that label can't tell you: a game where AI made a few textures gets the same label as a game where AI runs everything. I also had Claude dig through an AI RPG's logs (296 AI calls in 27 minutes of play), check the 600 most popular demos for the label, and find the team that pulled its demo over AI copycats. Plus the free add-on players built to hide AI games.

CHAPTERS
0:00 I played 10 Next Fest demos blind
0:53 What Steam's AI label means
1:14 Round 1: Hookeye
2:13 Round 2: Hunting Simulator 3
3:40 Round 3: Anywhere RPG
6:12 How common is the label?
6:37 Rounds 4-6: the streak
8:13 Round 7: A Place for Every Potion
9:09 Round 8: Chronoseum
10:10 The devs who won't demo
10:31 Round 9: Walkers
11:19 Round 10: Hotel Napoli
12:22 The players' fix
13:07 My score, and what the misses mean
14:16 Where this is going

THE 10 DEMOS
1. Hookeye: https://store.steampowered.com/app/46...
2. Hunting Simulator 3: https://store.steampowered.com/app/24...
3. Anywhere RPG: https://store.steampowered.com/app/51...
4. Probably Stolen: https://store.steampowered.com/app/43...
5. Playrooms: https://store.steampowered.com/app/50...
6. Lacey's Flash Games: https://store.steampowered.com/app/34...
7. A Place for Every Potion: https://store.steampowered.com/app/51...
8. Chronoseum: https://store.steampowered.com/app/50...
9. Walkers: https://store.steampowered.com/app/47...
10. The Guidelines: Hotel Napoli: https://store.steampowered.com/app/42...

MENTIONED
AI Warning for Steam, the free add-on by seeeeew: Chrome https://chromewebstore.google.com/det... / Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/ad... / code https://github.com/seeeeew/aiwarningf...
VELSCOUR, the Diablo 2 clone one guy made with two AI subscriptions. My full video:    • One Guy Made a Diablo 2 Clone With AI. Hal...   / play it: https://agilancer.github.io/velscour/
Unity's MCP for AI agents (Unity blog): https://unity.com/blog/unity-ai-mcp-h...

SOURCES
Steam Next Fest (7,235 games in the fest list on Oct 20): https://store.steampowered.com/sale/n...
The top 600 count: my own read of 570 of their store pages on Oct 20 (216 carry the label)
Valve's AI disclosure rules (Steamworks): https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/ge...
The 14,000-upvote Reddit post (Gaming Bible): https://www.gamingbible.com/news/plat...
No AI filter on Steam (Gagadget): https://gagadget.com/en/730765-steam-...
Filter demands, Drunken Goddess Reflux and games that hid their AI (Respawn First): https://respawnfirst.com/demands-for-...
Hotel Napoli's demo page, no label: https://store.steampowered.com/app/42...
"You'll get hate everywhere" (r/aigamedev):   / 1x3hg9w  
Anywhere RPG's AI calls: the game's own log file from my play session

MUSIC
The Journey Ahead by Ezra Lipp
Anomalous Hedges by Mini Vandals

"But what about when the whole game gets made while you play, like that RPG? Will a label even mean anything then?" Let me know in the comments.