SteamDB announced an update to the site that allows someone searching for PC games on the Steam storefront to opt out of seeing ones made with generative AI (Gen AI) with a new filter. The filtering feature was announced on social media site Bluesky, and that included a link to a search on the site that showed all games with “AI content disclosed.”
How it works is when someone searches, they would need to go to the “Filter by User Tags” section. If you search for “AI” there, then SteamDB will let you select “AI content disclosed” to identify Gen AI games on Steam. In the announcement on social media, the “Profile Features Limited” user tag was also highlighted. When you then perform a search, you can opt to not see any games with that notification. This would ideally let someone filter out those titles.
On the example search showing products that do have “AI content disclosed,” there are over 4,900 items highlighted. Some of the more famous ones are Call of Duty, The Finals, inZOI, Setallaris, The Outlast Trials, Liar’s Bar, My Summer Car, Inside the Backrooms, and Synduality: Echo of Ada. As an example, the disclosure on the Synduality page noted that Gen AI has “garage radio chatter voice” with “AI-generated text to speech.”
This sort of search also applies to Steam Next Fest 2025 demos. The filter can be added to that. Then, you can opt out of seeing games that use it. For example, the Mecha Break demo would come up as one, since it uses the Nvidia ACE system for Gen AI NPCs.
The SteamDB Gen AI filter is live now to help sort PC games.
Published: Feb 25, 2025 11:00 am