GameDoes PROTOCOL: Zero-day use AI?
AI tools helped design concept art, environments, and base textures, which the team says it curated and reworked by hand.
AI judgment · deepseek-flash · AI-assisted · 60% confidence
Checked against Steam on Oct 28, 2026.
Production signals
Facts about who made the game and how players received it. They don't depend on AI, and they help tell a carefully made game that used some AI apart from mass-produced ones.
- IP GAMES released 0 games on Steam in the last 12 months. 1 of their 1 game disclose AI.
- This is the developer's first game on Steam.
- Not released yet.
- AI judgment of production effort risk: Low (deepseek-flash)
Before you buy: anti-cheat, accounts, DRM
No anti-cheat, third-party account or DRM is declared on PROTOCOL: Zero-day's Steam page.
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What the developer says
As a small independent team, we rely on various tools to bring our project to life and support its development. Generative AI tools were used during pre-production and development to assist our team in designing some visual elements, notably concept art, environments, and base textures for the cyber-apocalyptic universe of PROTOCOL: Zero-day. All assets generated by these tools were curated, reworked, and manually integrated into the game engine to meet the project's technical and gameplay requirements. Our goal remains to build an original, carefully crafted visual identity. Therefore, the use of AI-generated content is primarily intended as a temporary production aid. As development progresses, we aim to gradually phase it out in favor of human-made assets created specifically for the game.
From the “AI Generated Content Disclosure” on the Steam store page, quoted as written. First seen by us on Oct 28, 2026.
What other sources say
| Source | Their take |
|---|---|
| Steam disclosure | AI content disclosed |
| AI judgment deepseek-flash | AI-assisted · AI scope: parts · effort risk: lowReasoningThe disclosure says AI assisted pre-production and development for concept art, environments, and base textures, so some AI-derived assets likely ship. It also says assets were curated, reworked, and integrated manually, and that AI use is meant as a temporary aid. The developer has no release history and the game is unreleased, so there is no volume signal. Against: The disclosure frames AI as a temporary production aid to be phased out, and the studio has no track record of rapid releases. |
| Remove AI Slop open-source extension | Some AI (concept/reference, art) |
FAQ
Does PROTOCOL: Zero-day use AI?
Yes. PROTOCOL: Zero-day's developer discloses AI-generated content on its Steam page. AI tools helped design concept art, environments, and base textures, which the team says it curated and reworked by hand.
Is PROTOCOL: Zero-day AI-generated?
Only partly. AI is used for parts of the game; most of it is made by the developers.
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