Fursona Festival

[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom][b]Trigger Warning: Furries.[/b][/url] This game contains anthropomorphic animal characters.[/quote] [quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop][b]Warning: AI Slop[/b][/url] This game is partially or completely made with talentless, soulless AI generated content. The developer deliberately breached their obligations under Valve terms and services by not appropriately warning gamers, in a deliberate attempt to mislead gamers.[/quote] This is a bunch of AI Slop made for furries, a simple quiz vibe coded together with Ren'Py markup to question the user with a bunch of dumb questions and cringe furry fan-fiction writing to find out "What kind of furry are you". The answer I got was "alt+f4, immediate uninstall". So, it's hard to describe this as a game, the focus is more like that of an e-book/visual novel, there's only minor, shallow and uninteresting gameplay elements. The crux of this is to push some very low quality, badly done fan-fiction tier writing, where we see once more a developer fail to understand the importance of "Show, don't tell", and for whatever reason, weren't able to convey their narrative through gameplay, giving us endless lines of badly written e-book text instead. My gaming rig is not a kindle. As mentioned, this features really godawful, "wrong" looking AI slop instead of genuinely and sincerely created game assets. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating real game assets or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks bad because of that decision. AI slop sticks out like a sore thumb... and it comes across as insulting. There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development properly, too, and that's glaringly obvious here. Let's talk about pricing and the actual value this has for gamers. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB shows this peaked at [b]only 6 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Given that this free game won't increase your game collector count, is it worth your time to add it to your library? This one scores a "nope". While it won't necessarily cost you money, the time and hard drive space it requires could be better invested in one of the many higher quality alternatives on Steam. The use of AI slop is a direct insult to gamers and real, ethical content creators and artists everywhere. AI models are trained on copyrighted intellectual property without permission from the owners. Using AI slop in a published product should be seen as supporting these copyright violations.

Just so wrong. So, So Wrong. Damn thing thinks I should be a dragon (or a sheep?). It's literally just a disguised RenPY Visual Novel with a bad AI in it to analyze your responses and sort them into what it thinks suits you. This thing is just laughably inaccurate to the point that old SNL looks as bland as printer paper in comparison.

this is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up i got the sheep anyway. thanks mommy

[i]Meet [b]comically[/b] endowed dragoness.[/i] [i]Get chided for calling her 'Mommy.'[/i] 10/10 [i]Would get kink-shamed again.[/i] (I got a bear, btw)

As the name of the game suggests, its main goal is to help you discover which fursona best matches your personality. It consists of five quizzes that resemble a psychometric test. The game itself isn’t challenging, but—like any exercise in introspection—if you’re honest and thoughtful with your answers, you’ll likely (re)discover something about yourself. It’s no coincidence that you found this game by chance while browsing Steam store. Give it a try, whether out of curiosity or because you might actually be searching for some personal answers, like I was. Thank you, dev team — I really enjoyed it!

I'm a hastily cut out bird jpeg!!!! :steamhappy: