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$1k daily AI bill for a free to play game

2026-10-11 17:03:06.615319+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Free Steam demo runs up $1,000 daily AI bill and forces devs to take out bank loan — studio eyes local hardware models to escape cloud limits as cheaper automatic fallback AI models create problems, game uses AI to process your voice and build responses

“We are currently spending over $1,000 per day on AI services for the demo,” the team wrote on its Steam update. Easy Fox also added, “This isn’t because each player is particularly expensive to support. The total cost has increased because so many people are playing, and we have taken out a bank loan to help keep the demo running.”

Uh. Wait. each player isn't particularly expensive to support, and yet "the cost has increased because so many people are playing"? I'm... not sure what they're saying here.

Anyway, apparently the whole thing is the player talking to Gemini.

A whole bunch of people linking to this, but I'll credit David Gerard.

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