AI Dungeon, a text-based quest where a powerful AI makes up your adventure on the go, has been released on Steam

AI Dungeon project first became available in December 2019 and attracted attention due to its advanced artificial intelligence - it generated coherent text adventures, where you could perform any action by typing it in the input window. Now AI Dungeon has appeared on Steam.

The gameplay looks like 1970s text quests: you're told what's going on, and you write what you're going to do. But while the 1970s quests only accepted tightly constrained answers, AI Dungeon tries to adjust by all means what you type in. You only have to specify the type of input: action, word, or event.

AI Dungeon also allows you to generate a world, fill it with details of your choice, or dive into the worlds of other players. In addition, you can control the progress of an incident: force II to create a paragraph again or even rewrite it completely by hand. Occurrences allow you to go through with your friends.

The results are interesting: AI Dungeon quickly got memed at launch, as it could generate a story about a detective with laser eyes or a musical battle with Celine Dion.

Previously, AI Dungeon only worked through a browser or cell phones. There it is distributed on a free-to-play system, limits the number of actions and/or shows ads. The Steam version is paid, but the restrictions are removed and there are no ads.

Early reviews of the game are disappointing, at 44% at the time of writing. Many of the negative reviews are due to the fact that in the U.S. and Europe for AI Dungeon costs $30 or €25 accordingly - they say that the bonuses of the paid version for such an amount do not correspond with the money paid. In addition, Steam will have only Griffin Model II - the simplest (but also the fastest) of the available. Developers have more advanced models II, but they are open to those who sign up for a paid subscription in the freetoplay version. In Steam, microtransactions are disabled.