How to filter out Generative AI games with SteamDB

A surprising number of games nowadays feature some degree of AI usage. If you are against this practice and fear you might be helping it proliferate by unwittingly spending your money on such titles, then I have good news.

Steam asks developers who want their games for sale on the platform to disclose any instance of AI in their making, but it doesn’t feature the option to filter out all games using AI. SteamDB, however, is not so kind to them.

If you head over to SteamDB.info/tags, you can now search for the AI Content Disclosed tag under Uncategorized. Clicking on it will immediately show a list of all the games on Steam that have disclosed their usage of AI.

Even better, you can filter all games with AI content from your searches. It’s a new feature, so SteamDB currently allows you to use it right at the top of the page by clicking on the underlined “AI generated content disclosures”.

I hope that message stays at the top of the page forever, but it might go away at some point. If that happens and you want to use the feature while performing a search, you can look to the right side where it says Tags, search for “AI disclosed”, and click on (exclude) in front of it. This will filter out any game with disclosed AI content from your search. Alternatively, you can add &tagid=-1368160 to the end of your URL to automatically filter out these titles.

This is a great feature, though it doesn’t necessarily catch every single instance of a game using AI. The developers can simply choose not to disclaim it and hope for the best. Still, Steam’s policy requires all games using the tech to do so, so any game caught using AI without letting Steam and its buyers know will hopefully face serious consequences.

At the time of writing, there are just over 6,000 titles on Steam featuring disclosed AI Content. These titles range from the extremely popular Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 to indie hits such as Outlast Trials and Liar’s Bar. The usage of AI on these titles can vary greatly, but it’s certainly there and certainly worthy of you at least frowning upon them should you end up falling for their charms.