GameDoes Water Margin: Rise of the Outlaws use AI?
AI image generation produced character portraits, interface art, maps, battlefield backgrounds, props and icons; AI also assisted drafting dialogue and biographies.
Our AI review, high confidence. Not a verdict; the evidence is below.
Checked against Steam on Oct 28, 2026.
Before you buy: anti-cheat, accounts, DRM
No anti-cheat, third-party account or DRM is declared on Water Margin: Rise of the Outlaws's Steam page.
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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.
- Net Kingkong Pte. Ltd. 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.
- Our AI review of these signals: mixed signals.
What the developer says
This game uses artwork made with AI image generation tools during development, including character portraits, title and interface art, maps, battlefield backgrounds and props, the source art for battlefield units, technique icons and ink-effect textures. Every AI image was selected by the developer and then cropped, cleaned of garbled text and fake seals, color-matched, split into parts and animated before going into the game. Unit walking and attack animations are generated procedurally from a bone rig. Story dialogue, character biographies and technique descriptions were written and finalized by the developer, with AI writing assistance used during drafting. The story is adapted from the classic Chinese novel Water Margin. The game does not generate any content with AI while it is running. Music, sound effects and fonts are not AI-generated.
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 | Major AI · mixed signals, high confidenceReasoningThe disclosure states most visual asset types ship as AI-generated images, though the developer reports substantial manual cleanup and animation work. Writing used AI assistance during drafting but was finalized by the developer. No runtime AI generation; music, sound and fonts are human-made. Against: Developer describes extensive post-processing, hand-selected images, procedural bone-rig animation and human-finalized writing, indicating real production effort rather than raw output. |
| Remove AI Slop open-source extension | Mostly AI-generated (art, UI/icons, level design, story/dialogue, music/sound) |
FAQ
Does Water Margin: Rise of the Outlaws use AI?
Yes. Water Margin: Rise of the Outlaws's developer discloses AI-generated content on its Steam page. AI image generation produced character portraits, interface art, maps, battlefield backgrounds, props and icons; AI also assisted drafting dialogue and biographies.
Is Water Margin: Rise of the Outlaws AI-generated?
AI-generated content makes up a major part of the game, according to its disclosure.
How does GameAICheck know?
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