There are plenty of games sporting AI, to varying degrees of disruption. There’s the never-ending Universe of No Man's Sky (overwhelming in its scope, perhaps underwhelming in its sparsely populated realism), and Persona, Hades, and Diablo have all used procedurally generated AI in development at least, so the landscapes, caverns, and dungeons include AI inspo. But there hasn’t quite been fully generative AI like what I found playing Inzoi, where, with the toggle of a switch, I can turn my character on — and let them run wild. The results are charmingly chaotic and a great fit to a game where such havoc is the point. AI gaming is fully here — and in Inzoi’s hands, it’s less uncanny than it is entertaining.
Inzoi is a new game from South Korea, from publisher Krafton, best known for one of the most popular shooters, PUBG. Hailed as a Sims rival, Inzoi has a number of extremely exciting features to anticipate, which has probably led the game to be wishlisted even more times than the likes of Hollow Knight: Silksong. First and foremost is its robust character creation menu. A close second: You can use generative AI to give its characters general guidelines on what to do and think.
