Dev Deletes AI Steam Sport After New Girlfriend Convinces Him It is Dangerous

An indie developer behind a Balatro-looking AI-generated roguelike card sport that launched in 2025 has introduced that he’s deleting the sport from Steam after a woman he’s been courting for a bit helped him notice it was a “shame to all sport makers.”

On January 10, the shop web page for indie card sport Hardest on Steam posted a shocking replace. In accordance with developer Eero Laine, he’ll be eradicating Hardest fully from the Steam retailer on January 30. In accordance with the replace, Hardest was made in Summer time 2025 utilizing free instruments supplied by the developer’s college, and in line with him, on the time, he didn’t notice the impact that AI tech can have on individuals’s jobs and the setting. Hardest was launched on Steam in July 2025 and is free to play.

“I made [Hardest] through the summer season in couple months [sic] and thought to make use of AI as a result of in college there may be a lot brainwashing on college students and all of the instruments are given without spending a dime, so I may generate limitless photos without spending a dime,” mentioned the developer on Steam in a submit titled AI Is Dangerous. “However I’ve realized the AI is just not truly free, and it has a significant impact on the financial system and setting. Some AI firms can use this sport simply present as a cause the get extra funding for his or her AI firms[sic], that profit nobody, however reasonably suck sources from the financial system from laborious working individuals.”

In accordance with Laine, he coded “all the pieces” himself in Hardest, so sooner or later, he may attempt to construct a brand new sport with “actual property” utilizing his previous non-AI code. Laine concluded the Steam replace with: “However the sport present in its present kind is a shame to all sport makers and gamers. Ethically solely logical cause is to delete the sport from Steam. The woman I’ve been courting for a month made me notice this.”

I’m not 100% certain, however I believe this is perhaps the primary time somebody has deleted a sport from Steam as a result of their new accomplice satisfied them it was a shame and ought to be faraway from the planet. Harsh, however within the case of AI-generated slop, correct. Kudos to that younger girl for doing a little good work. And I hope Laine’s subsequent sport is nice and never stuffed with ugly AI-generated artwork.