Dino Bones: Tidy Up the Museum! is a cozy skeleton restoration sim. Identify, collect, and piece together around 2,000 scattered dinosaur bones. Feel chaos turn into order, and with every skeleton you rebuild, the museum reveals another secret.
For a game where the very first line in the about is a claim that no AI was used, there is an AWFUL lot of generative AI used for assets like the theropod skull banners on the walls (nonsensical nasal / orbital sockets and teeth melding into each other) and the map of the museum (the pterodactyl illustration was particularly egregious- literally just...
found out after 100% the game and getting curious about reviews that it used/uses AI. I trusted it as when I first saw the game it disclosed there was no AI usage which turned out to be a lie. Granted it was fun for me to play as I enjoy tidying up games such as these but boo AI.
Immediate AI assets when not appropriately disclosed on the steam page. They also are not disclosing AI use on their discord. If that is a make or break for you then keep this in mind.
100% the game and now im mad, theres AI slop in the posters and and other art. I was gunna give a genuine critique cause theres some minor gameplay things id recommend be changed but now i dont wanna put in the effort cause clearly the devs didnt cause they outright lied ://
EDIT: Just clarifying cause i didnt proofread my own review, im more pissed...
Without getting into any of wether there's AI in the game or not, the game is simply misleading from the get go.
It's not a "tidy up" game, you open one box at a time and put all those bones onto the same two skeletons, when you go over to the skeleton you literally play hot or cold to find the right spot where the skeleton goes green and you click....
