All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending August 23

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/28095114

Vapor World: Over The Mind is a Soulslike Metroidvania with an evocative, painterly art style reminiscent of Lies of P and the narrative platformers of Playdead. According to Korean studio Alive Inc, the game had 100,000 wishlists just before its early access launch on August 19, mostly on the strength of a demo available since January 2025.

But what should have been a triumphant early access launch went pear shaped very quickly. At launch, few talked about the quite distinctive worldbuilding or the parry-heavy combat. Instead, all focus was trained entirely on something absent from the popular demo: very obvious AI use.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    That is called luma noise, yes. Heh. Its nothing new.

    The thing that I wish was better understood is that “slop” = “low effort.” …that means that not all AI is slop, and thus if you really want to detect AI, you can’t rely on it always being slop.

    Yes! I would wear this on my forehead on Lemmy, if I could.