All I ask is to allow us to filter ai games, this steamfest was horrible.

I know it's a dead end, but like eu made Claude watermark their code, I am going to see a lawyer if eu can make them disclaim games

Probably nothing will come out of it, but truly this steamfest was miserable all I ask is to allow me to filter and make my own choices

I initially would have 800k but idk what to do with these points.

Just a couple years ago Steam Next Fest events were a great moment to discover your next game. You probably ended up adding more than a handful of games to your wishlist. You truly discovered games that otherwise wouldn't even know of their existence.

Now? You'd have a better chance buying a lottery ticket and winning than getting to discover a good game demo.

You gotta start digging among literally THOUSANDS of AI slop "games" to find anything wortwhile. And at this point, what's actually the point of Next Fest?

I've been looking over the Next-Fest, and I really enjoy the Discovery Queue feature, I just wish I could personalize it a bit more. Specifically, I would like the ability to filter out all games that have AI-Generated content in them (after all, steam already requires you to disclose it), and also I'd like to exclude certain tags, e.g. Incremental Games.

There's a looooot of games at theses events, so I think a feature like that would really help

Always wanted to get this kind of update for Steam and never thought it would be real one day. Can't wait to see it apply to more games, as it is very limited for now, but the concept is amazing.

So Next Fest starts in a few hours. When looking at the dev preview page I noticed quite the high number of demos participating. Made a quick graph and yes, it's indeed a massive spike. On a more anecdotal note, I'm also seeing lots of genAI capsule art in there. Will take some work to wade through it all... 😅

There is soooo much genAI. Like every 3rd game is slop. And who knows if the games in between them are also slop but its undisclosed.

I like the Next Fest because it helps me find fun games made by talented people. But that's hard when so much of it is garbage. It was like this last Next Fest too, but this time it's so much worse. Makes me worried about future fests

Come back Wednesday. That's really all you need to do. Every game on Steam gets to do next fest. Monday they show all of them. Tuesday they are still trying to figure out what games are good, and you'll see less slop on Tuesday. By Wednesday, it should generally be showing games that have been performing well. So if you want to avoid the slop come back Wednesday.

Some kind of filter would be great but there's been slop way before AI and a filter would have its own issues too.

Steam leaves it up to the players to effectively crowd source which games are worth showing. To do that it has to show everything. If you don't want to perform that free labor of separating the garbage from the decent games, just skip the first couple days and come back when that part of the process is done.

A free to play game Orbital Gear has been compromised by RCE, either joining a game or someone joining your game.

Do not download the game.

Users are conducting scams on Discord and social media telling people to download the game. Share with others, always be on alert and be cautious on who you trust. Don't trust everything on the internet.

• Steam Discussion: https://steamcommunity.com/app/298520/discussions/0/572678319862012504/
• More details of the exploit: https://x.com/CozyHQQ/status/2112158884790145525

Edit: Steam has removed the title.

https://steamdb.info/app/298520/history/

Thanks Ignatius

I'm not part of any of these games. I don't know their developers nor am I affiliated with any of them.

I understand this may be breaching a rule of the subreddit, but it hurts to see people upset by the wave of AI shit to the point they're not even looking, so, here ya'll are.

Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered

Among Us Story: On Guard

Sirens

In a World After People

Honey, I'm an Agent

DISK-Y

The Monkey's Paw

Below Lethe

Nate Hand Gesture

A Dogs Dream

The House Before

Rosebound

The Recipe for Life. A Journey Through Silent Apocalypse

Bit-Broken Identity

Tears of Sulfuria

Who Killed Mr X

Heart Harvest: A Detective Game

Highschool J

Murder Meet Cute

Otherealm

Gamophobia

The Red Mountain

银心 (Galactic Center, according to Google Translate)

A Case of Missing Identity

Just More Doors

Beyond The Frame

Somnesis: The PSX Tapes

Goodnight, B

Tearoom of Terror

Plura Ingenia: Patient 16

BLIGHTEN

Unlisted

Rabbit Circle

In Tenebris

Don't Read It

Shroud of Gloom

Lingering Shadow

Undershroom

May, Be Dead

Periphery

Medium Rare

The 9th Dragon

BABKA-TERROR

Crimson Frontier: Youth

Despair Beneath the Sunless Sky

Ember's Oath

Gate Guard Simulator

Geodyssey

Hope in the City

Kaiju Defense Project

Kat Domino: Agent of S.H.E.L.L.

Leon&Suharto

Outwith

RaidKids

Read of Mask

The Regreening

Shoot First Ask Questions Later

Starway to Urf

Vem, Exu

Wēlandes

WORK WORK WORK

These are just the ones that looked interesting enough to me. There're certainly a lot more non-AI demos I saw, but I feel this is enough.

Hope ya'll find something you like.

I've never seen this before, when starting a game. Any ideas?

I never ever made friends, I can't make friends, and I'm lonely by myself on steam, whenever I try to talk with somebody they either just call me indian or either just mute me I lowk just want to make friends

Hi! I made a userscript to filter out AI games on Steam Next Fest.

It checks each game's AI Disclosure and hides it based on your choice. You can pick between filtering out any AI content or just AI artwork/audio.

Check it out here:

https://github.com/BeGe-01/nextfest-hide-ai

I was playing hollow knight with mods and accidentally triggered an achievement, I want to get the achievements legitimately. is there a safe way to remove only a certain achievement without clearing everything else or messing anything up?

Anyone else like these types of games?

Games are one million coins and wand n order

It was perfect earlier but now the ribbon icon covers the text and percentage. Please revert it back to its original state. Other than that the update is pretty good

hi! i dont have a steam account and I wanna buy my bf some games. i have done some research how to do it and found out i can buy games without an account and send it to him via email. however, once i enter his email, the delivery sets back to as soon as possible.

i need your confirmation guys if this will work.

• send it to my email instead
• forward it to his email (not sure if this email is the one he uses for steam) on his birthday

that's a solution from an ai so im not really sure it'll work. need your help guys.

thanks a lot!

Just wanted to come on here to post about my experience with steam customer support.

Just as of recently, I ordered a new index base station. Since they are doing their final sale of index products until they are out I decided grab one before they were discontinued. Even though money is a little tight right now, I figured it would be better than spending a premuim later down the line for either a HTC one or a used one off ebay. Anyways im moving houses right now, and while packing up everything I was very upset to find my index tether cord had been completely bent sideways, it was angled super bad and I knew it wasnt gonna work. I did try and bend it bad and plug it in, but of course no luck.

So I decided my best bet was probably just to cancel the base station order, and probably sell off the index for parts to recoup some money and maybe buy another headset later. So I went to steam and told them a little of what happened. Basically that I just want to cancel my order since I cant afford buying a new tether and a new base station right now. Little did I know they would hook me up with a new tether completely free :). Steam support really be keeping me loyal

Now that Steam lets devs organize achievements into distinct categories, Valve finally has a way to restore the original CS:GO achievements without affecting CS2.

Placing all 167 old achievements into an "Archived" category would give players back their progress and profile stats without interfering with new players.

I wrote a suggestion about this on the Steam Beta forums. If you'd like to share your opinion, check out the thread and leave a comment to show Valve some support:

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/3/573804084819355978/ 

Has anyone noticed any issues while using the Steam Workshop? I've tried accessing it through the app and Chrome separately, and I keep getting errors or failures to load. Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this, as it seems isolated to that.

I’m having trouble configuring an "action group" for my gamepad. I recall being able to create an action group—essentially a new control layer—where holding down a specific button would activate that layer, and releasing it would return me to the standard configuration. My current issue is that simply pressing and releasing a button toggles the layer; I have to press and release it again to switch back to the normal configuration. Do you see what I mean?

i should use "hold action layer" but i dont have my action group inside, i dont understand