Short Position: Claude picks the most novel Steam game idea

I pointed Claude at the below post and it embedded all 146,060 Steam games, sampled 320,000 points between them, ranked them by how far they land from anything that exists, and used creative judgment to pick a winner... and it cooked!

It's pick: Short Position, a co-op factory tycoon where one player has secretly shorted the stock.

4–8 players run one industrial empire: mines, smelters, rail, contracts. There’s no kill button and no sabotage minigame. The traitor plays the factory game badly on purpose. Overbuild a warehouse, route ore to the wrong smelter, sign a contract with a penalty clause on page 4. Every move looks like an honest mistake.

The twist is that suspicion is expensive. Anyone can audit the production logs, but audits cost money and spook investors. The traitor doesn’t need to wreck the factory. They just need everyone paranoid enough to do it themselves.

Each quarter ends with an earnings call and a board vote. Fire an honest exec and you lose their whole department. Four quarters, ~40 minutes.

It sits farther from its nearest neighbors than 83% of real Steam games. Factory games have co-op, social deduction games have tasks, and nobody has made the work itself the place where you lie.

Quoted post: Synthetic Beef (@SyntheticBeef), October 21, 2026

Of course it can. Take all 100,000+ games on steam, scrape their descriptions and metadata, semantically plot them in vector space using embeddings, mathematically choose a location in vector space far away from neighbors, convert that back to a description and metadata, boom, brand new ideas ranked by how unlike any other ideas they are.

Which itself quotes Second Chance Game (@SecondChanceGme), October 21, 2026

@SyntheticBeef one thing AI can't do is create a brand new idea

Same-author continuation, October 24, 2026

I hope someone builds this in UEFN :-) You could even have the AI grill you on investor calls via the Conversations feature haha.