VGM is a reflection of the music industry and its trends. With the comeback of the 2000s, we're seeing more rock or jungle-style soundtracks appearing. K-pop groups are lending their voices to exclusive singles, particularly for Asian gachas, and hyperpop is trying to break through to replace metal in fast FPS games. That’s for the upside. The flip side is less glamorous: artificial intelligence also wants a piece of the pie.
I’m not going to revisit those scammers who, on streaming platforms (not just Spotify), publish AI-generated tracks on the profiles of renowned artists like Akira Yamaoka, Yoko Shimomura, or Andrew Prahlow (I published an article about this on Patreon). I’m talking here about entire albums, published by game development studios, whose music was composed by AI.
The signal is still weak, and to date, out of nearly 400 albums counted since the beginning of 2026, I’ve identified 8 albums that were very clearly AI-generated. How can I be sure? For one thing, you can hear it, most of the time. For another, the French streaming service Deezer has implemented a very effective detection algorithm, automatically labeling tracks caught red-handed to exclude them from monetization.
The most prolific creator in this regard is Kink Master Studios, an enigmatic NSFW game development studio that publishes pornographic puzzle games monthly on Steam. Transparently, the creator consistently indicates on the Steam pages of their games that their music is largely AI-generated.
As a solo developer, I utilize AI tools throughout the development process to bring this game to life. AI assists with image generation, music composition, and localization for all languages other than English for both the game and store page. All content undergoes extensive manual refinement by me; images receive editing, redrawing, color correcting, detail touch-ups, artistic enhancements and more. Music tracks are refined through extensive edits, rewrites, restructuring and more before final editing, mixing and mastering. All content is reviewed and edited before making it into the final game.
A series of under-the-radar games for a niche audience, where the creator is honest... we can let that slide. It’s more troubling, however, when some start publishing AI-generated OSTs for games that don’t even exist. Warehouse: Together tries to pass itself off as one of the many "pro" simulation games flourishing on Steam, which are particularly successful with certain streamers. Yet, there’s no trace of it online—except on streaming platforms, where the artwork and every single track are AI-generated.
But we're still talking about something very confidential here. What made me want to write this article is that I had the Legends of Goodness OST in my playlist this morning. A game announced as "coming soon" on Steam, but whose soundtrack is already available both on Valve's platform and streaming services. Niche, once again... except that some tracks on the album already have over 45,000 plays on Spotify. A popularity boasted about by the Turkish studio Mebunaz Software on the OST's Steam page. "Including the world-charting hit 'White World'," reads this hideous promotional image—also AI-generated.
These are streams that were quite clearly bought, which brings us directly back to Deezer's analysis of AI music in its latest report on the subject. "Up to 85% of all streams on AI-generated music are detected as fraudulent," claims the French streaming platform, which has been fighting for over a year to demonetize AI music.
According to Deezer, last January there were about 60,000 AI-generated tracks published every day on streaming platforms, or 39% of the daily total. Who knows how many there are today? One thing is certain: the share of OSTs using AI will only continue to grow.
