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Steam Week in Review: A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop…
Vapor World: Over The Mind, a Soulslike Metroidvania, faced significant backlash on Steam due to its use of generative AI in cutscenes, leading to a surge of negative reviews. Developer Alive Inc has since replaced the AI-generated content, with director Young Kim acknowledging the hasty judgment and promising to improve. The incident highlights audience intolerance for AI shortcuts in game development, even as South Korea shows high AI optimism.
After 25% positive Steam reviews, Soulslike dev realizes people hate AI slop and admits "if it looks like the effort is not there, that is a fair reading of what is on screen"
The director of the Soulslike game Vapor World: Over the Mind has apologized for the heavy reliance on AI-generated cutscenes and voices, which led to overwhelmingly negative Steam reviews. Young Kim admitted that the AI-generated content was a hasty decision due to resource limitations and promised to replace all AI cutscenes with original content by the end of the week. The game's developer, ALIVE Inc., had previously disclosed AI usage but failed to anticipate the strong player backlash.
Vapor World: Over The Mind is Getting a New Demo in June Ahead of Early Access
Vapor World: Over The Mind, a 2D Soulslike action-platformer from Alive Inc, is releasing a new demo in June ahead of its early access launch in Q2 2026 for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, PC, and Nintendo Switch. The early access version will offer approximately 5 hours of gameplay, including a prologue and the first episode, with the full release promising around 12 hours of content.
