arxivcs.AI2026-07-01
AI Native Games: A Survey and Roadmap
Zhiyue Xu, Fandi Meng, Kaijie Xu, Clark Verbrugge, Simon Lucas, Jian Zhao
Generative AI now enables games to produce dialogue, quests, characters, images, and worlds at runtime. Yet generation alone does not make a game AI-native, nor does it guarantee playability. This paper defines AI-native games by whether runtime generative AI is constitutive of t…