One thing bizarre has been occurring over the previous few days. The social media platform X is clearly no stranger to spawning bizarre gaming tendencies which can be partly and even wholly fueled by generative AI, like the proliferation of video games about discovering a needle in a haystack, however I’ve by no means been fairly as exhausted by the algorithm-fueled slop as I’m by a brand new plague of vibe-coded gaming mashups. Seemingly in a single day, my total homepage has by some means been taken over by modders who’ve used AI to develop surprising crossovers that put well-known video games like Tremendous Mario 64 inside different well-known video games like Elden Ring.
All of the sudden, my feed is stuffed with empty guarantees which have magically earned 1000’s of likes and thousands and thousands of views.
Hey, you may combat Elden Ring bosses with a Minecraft sword!
I put the complete of sport minecraft into elden ring as mod. its runs on Mac. pic.twitter.com/CojefjxtLn
— Anime Woman Worshiper (@TobynJacobs) September 29, 2026
Or with Mario!
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— Deltaroo Δ (@Deltaroo3D) September 30, 2026
You may shoot Skyrim NPCs with Escape from Tarkov weapons!
Presenting… Escape from Skyrim lol.
I put Tarkov into Skyrim. Now with weapons and every thing you’d count on. pic.twitter.com/byFCnvwcbq— Cydonyx_ (@cydonix) September 30, 2026
Now you can go skateboarding with Skate 3-style mechanics in Trendy Warfare 2!
First MW2 x Skate trickshot pic.twitter.com/h9pxLqPo8X
— thugger (@codthugger) September 29, 2026
Not sufficient layers for you? You may even play the MW2 Skate 3 mod inside Minecraft!
Minecraft x Skate 3 x MW2 pic.twitter.com/9X354Abcwo
— tvllerr (@tvllerr) September 28, 2026
All the above mods are AI-generated (or appear to be, within the case of the Tarkov mod, which was rotated in just some hours after its creator seen the pattern).
guYS With the ability of Crack GPS Asstra 6.9, Claus Opoops Slopnet 5.5, I used to be capable of Mod EVERY GAME INTO ONE, I did all of it myself with laborious work by my typing and coding because of AI assistant!!! THE FUTURE IS HERE AND NOW pic.twitter.com/z7874uYdlk
— SuperWiiBros08 (@SuperWiiBros08) September 30, 2026
There’s additionally this “each outdated Nintendo sport” monstrosity, which was made by utilizing AI to attempt to decompile a bunch of Nintendo DS–period video games after which mash them again collectively right into a Frankenstein’s monster fever dream of cozy slop during which you personal a canine from Nintendogs and play minigames immediately ripped from Cooking Mama whereas working a shift at Animal Crossing: New Leaf’s The Roost (it additionally allegedly includes different video games together with Reel Fishing 3, Story of Seasons, and Kingdom Hearts…by some means).
AI hackers have decompiled nearly EVERY outdated Nintendo sport and are actually making NEW titles with it.
This sport is a mixture of Nintendogs Labs and associates, Animal Crossing New Leaf, Yoshinoya, Limitless Ocean, Cooking Mama, Go Trip, Kingdom Hearts, Reel Fishing 3, Story of Seasons and… pic.twitter.com/sCSvLe5ubN
— chasm (@chasmmmmmmmmmmm) September 29, 2026
Most of those mods don’t appear to be downloadable but (and solely exist as Twitter clips, probably uploaded in a rush proper after Claude completed churning out its work), and we haven’t been capable of confirm that every one of those are literally playable mods. I used to be, nonetheless, capable of check out a Claude-coded mod that provides Minecraft’s gadgets to Skyrim by modder chasmlol, whose Discord server has turn out to be considerably of a hub for this sudden AI modding craze. I didn’t have quite a lot of enjoyable with it!
I was just a little tickled to seek out out I might really break some components of Skyrim‘s setting to acquire blocks, however after mining about two blocks from a mountain, I immediately fell by means of and bought caught amid some lacking blocks with some awfully funky geometry. A few of these blocks have been improperly assigned, too—breaking a steel gate gave me wooden—and others didn’t render in any respect. After which, earlier than I even had an opportunity to dive into battle, I bought caught behind an invisible wall that undoubtedly doesn’t exist in common Skyrim!
I get that that is an early model of the mod, and I do know it’s going to be buggy. However even when it have been polished and completely bug-free, its design does so little to truly combine the 2 video games into one another that it will nonetheless simply really feel like a sandbox meant to generate viral Twitter clips relatively than something that would end in an precise playthrough of Skyrim utilizing Minecraft’s gadgets. My stock (proven by means of Minecraft‘s regular HUD, which shamelessly coated up Skyrim‘s subtitles) got here filled with diamond instruments, a full set of iron armor, and even a number of golden apples, all assets which can be pretty tough to get in Minecraft however got to me actually proper off the bat. The mod comes with a crafting desk, positive, however I do not know how one would possibly really get hold of the assets wanted to craft most gadgets—you may’t really go mining as a result of the stone layer below the world is just a few blocks deep and seemingly ore-free, and I failed to return throughout any pure meals sources, both.
The remainder of these mods appear equally slipshod. I can’t determine how on earth Tarkov gear in that different Skyrim mod is obtained or tips on how to really rating factors whereas doing kickflips inside MW2 and possibly additionally inside Minecraft (or what stated factors would possibly get you if they really existed). None of those mechanics really synergize with one another in a method meaning something!
Minecraft, Elden Ring, Nintendogs, and all the different video games which have been melded into one another time and again all through the previous few days are particular due to the design selections that have been made throughout their growth. Their methods are tightly intertwined and have been designed to feed into one another, which is why ripping out components of those video games, unceremoniously smashing them collectively, and failing to do any actual design work to combine their mechanics or add any semblance of originality leads to some extremely incohesive and unplayable mods.
It’s novel to see one among these clips come throughout your feed for a number of seconds, I suppose, however none of those mods have created something that even resembles the precise gameplay they promise. Positive, you may publish your cool skateboard trick appended to an MW2 trickshot to attain a straightforward thousand likes. However does anybody really need to play these items?
