Oh, look, it’s another Civ clone fluffed by AI bullshit and “vibe” code. Who can name the other releases in this wet fart of a trend? I’ll go first: Rogue Hex
How do you know it leverages “vibe coding” and AI generated assets?
The Steam page does not mention use of AI and Daedalic Entertainment (the publisher) is well established, I can’t see them allowing one of their development partners to lie about data that is required by Valve.
Fair point. I apologize for the glib comment. Rogue Hex is a passion project by a solo dev w/ minimal experience, and the ill-fated Daedalic Entertainment published this Civ knock-off, to be clear. (“reboot” or “spiritual successor” would imply an improvement on the original —of which there is no sign in either release)
The low-effort mimicry at the core of both titles is so thin that even La Croix would be embarrassed to claim a “flavor”. While the AI-gen art is far more obvious in the former (distractingly so, down to the UI), the prepackaged, barely viable slop seems to be a gap-filling trash paste for both —if only to keep either from getting punted down to “mobile game” status, among the other gaming-experience-as-soggy-cardboard-fascade titles like them.
Publishing shite titles just to provide a sign of life to the target market is no way to assuage fears in one’s fanbase, much less the unfamiliar public. Maybe they’re just hanging on until some Chinese corp buys the name to obfuscate scammy phone apps with. I have no idea what they’re thinking.
Maybe they’re just hanging on until some Chinese corp buys the name to obfuscate scammy phone apps with. I have no idea what they’re thinking.
Whatever their next steps are, I hope it’s not this.
Have you seen the latest Civ? 🤷🏼♂️
