Two concurrent players. One review. Zero percent positive. That’s the launch-day resume of War of the Damned, a free-to-play “tabletop RPG” from Coki Studio that climbed Steam’s New Releases chart on May 23.

The sole review doesn’t mince words: “Just another piece of AI slop cluttering up Steam.” The player logged six minutes before uninstalling and suggested the game felt like it was “made using a single prompt.”

War of the Damned isn’t an outlier. It’s the baseline.

Scroll further down the same chart and you’ll find Crown Chaos (2 concurrent players) and Knockout Carnival (0 concurrent players) — both free-to-play Fall Guys clones, both dumped onto the store on the same day, both collecting reviews that read like copy-pastes of each other. “Another attempt to make Fall Guys or Stumble Guys, but in the end it turned out to be a dull piece of ♥♥♥♥. 0 online and not even any bots.” That sentence appears, nearly verbatim, across both games’ review sections. Either one player is carbon-copying complaints across titles, or the same critique applies so uniformly it writes itself.

These are multiplayer party games with nobody to play with and no bot lobbies to paper over the void. They shipped as empty rooms.

This is what Steam’s new releases page actually looks like on an average Friday in 2026. According to analysis by AI and Games, 4,311 titles launched with AI content disclosures in 2025 — 22% of all Steam releases that year. The projection for 2026 puts that figure at one in three, with over 7,000 AI-tagged titles expected by December. The flood isn’t slowing down, and Valve has shown no appetite for meaningful intervention beyond a disclosure checkbox most buyers will never scroll far enough to notice.

For every genuine indie project grinding for visibility, dozens of zero-player launches bury it another inch deeper. The storefront isn’t curated. It’s a landfill with a search bar.

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