The Carcass

text reads like llm, music feels ai, I feel ashamed, I was charmed by the premise

got a refund after the AI disclosure went out. not cool. thought this would be an interesting game but it is not user friendly AT ALL. makes sense, since it was made by a robot

adding the ai disclosure AFTER is scummy. all the text content was first ai generated in a mostly text-based game? so like... most of it. also crazy how the story starts off with actually a bit of an eco-friendly save-the-earth message... as if ai isn't aiding in the fast-tracked downfall of our environment also they forgot to mention the images are also ai generated. like on the store page and stuff

Developer lied and initially stated that the art was hand drawn in one of the updates. Spoiler alert: it wasnt. This game is entirely AI slop. The story? AI slop. The music? AI slop. The update notes themselves? Believe it or not, also AI slop. From start to finish there is nothing but AI slop. I'm not even against using AI to assist with some things, but the entirety of the game is AI. Give it some soul and add your own touches for gods sake. The developer removed the AI notice when it launched, and then added it back shortly after I purchased it. Developer has only proven that they are willing to lie if it gets them some cash.

edited review: gameplay was fine although it info dumps you massively with very little explanation. information is accessible via a glossary, but, still, an infodump nonetheless. story is somewhat interesting but not really fleshed out from what i experienced. my main complaint here is the usage of AI without proper disclosure, the artwork, story, writing, and even the soundtrack screams of being AI generated. whether or not the game is good with that in mind is irrelevant, it should have been disclosed. refunded edit of the edit: after checking steamDB you can see multiple instances of the AI disclaimer being added and removed, I counted upwards of 6 different times it was enabled and disabled leading up to launch. if that's not deceptive practice I have no idea what it is.

Interesting idea marred by excessive use of AI. To make it worse the game was released with no AI disclosure. I can understand using AI to help code and such but using AI to write the actual events and then "going in to look them over" is unexcusable. Write your own stuff instead of using a plagiarism machine.

The premise of the game was super interesting but all of the story stuff started quickly sounding pretty bland (the AI disclosure wasn't there when I bought it...), it starts with a long history but a bit too detail filled and drug out. The music was pretty meh when it randomly kicks on. I wasn't super into the gameplay, I thought it sounded interesting but the "UI" (it's terminal based so some of this is by design) felt like it chucked a lot of stuff at you without really explaining the systems that well. After a couple of hours of gameplay and feeling like something felt off with the game I check the store page again and it turns out the whole thing down to the ASCII art had been generated by AI tools. Like you can't even do ASCII art on your own? I've played a lot of Dwarf Fortress in my life, I love terrible ASCII art and am willing to deal with absolutely terrible UIs if the gameplay is fun. The whole point of a terminal game would be that you can skimp on art and create compelling gameplay in some other way. Instead somehow neither of these things happened and I think it's because literally the whole game was just generated off of a variety of AI tools. Hell if it was just the code being generated with AI I wouldn't care but it's pretty clearly every bit of it.

Refunding because it was not disclosed until after release that this game was overwhelmingly created with the use of AI.

Wow. I want to like this game but I was blindsided by the AI involvement. I liked the premise so badly that I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt, that maybe the writer has just picked up a few LLM stylistic traits from overusing it elsewhere. You know, considering [i]I checked for an AI disclosure on launch and it wasn't there[/i]. As others have pointed out, steamdb shows the disclosure being put up and then taken down a few times about a week before release. I just attributed the AI blandness at first to an unusual or amateur attempt at mystery, but as I got to the lore entries, I realized, my god, it really is just slop all the way down. Just bland and unappealing. Note the use of "curated" in the text content section of the disclosure; it feels like nothing in the game's content, [i]the text part of the text game[/i], has had any human creativity to it other than snipping off malformations of this extruded product. Ultimately, I'm a sucker for playing this for as long as I did. I'm almost embarassed to be posting this review, but I need to tell anyone who will listen to stay away from this appropriately named radioactive mess. When I was growing up I read an adventure in a D&D book I borrowed from a friend about a dungeon inside the body of a (un)dead demigod, so this immediately piqued my interest and filled that void. That nostalgia is what got the play time to what it is, nothing else.