Why No AI Games? - by Frank Lantz
2026-03-31
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LLMs have been around since 2021. Where are the great AI games? Lantz argues they don't exist yet. AI Dungeon and conversation party games are novelty wrappers, not new gameplay. Google's Genie 3 produces technically OK but uninspired output -- clunkier versions of conventional games, not the mind-bending experiences that define the medium. AI hasn't unlocked new possibilities for what games can do. It's just made cheaper copies of what already existed.
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