Gamers want Steam to let them filter out games with AI content, like Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Gamers are telling Steam to let them filter out games that were developed (fully or partly) by generative AI technologies.

A community thread, which has been up since early February 2025, has now generated over 300 comments. The thread discusses players requesting the option to filter out these games during Steam’s Next Fest, which runs from February 24 to March 3, 2025.

“Please please do this, I want to support actual hard working people not soulless slop churned out by a machine,” one user reads.

Earlier this year, Steam let game developers use generative AI as long as they fully disclose where and how the AI is used in the game. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, which topped charts and broke metrics left and right since its launch, has recently disclosed that it used AI to improve its “in-game assets.”

SteamDB, a third-party site for all things Steam but is not run by Valve, can already filter out games that have generative AI disclosure. It “applies regardless of whether AI was used in the game itself or just for marketing assets. Games receive this tag-based solely on the presence of Steam’s required disclosure text.”

And with billions of dollars being poured out by Big Tech for AI, still, indie game developers are still taking a stance against it. Recently, a group of indie devs also launched a “No Gen AI” seal that they slap on their games amid the industry’s big and heavy push for AI use.

“So they can buy their game with confidence that their purchase will support developers whose ethics they agree with on this issue,” the devs explain.