Easy Fox says AI costs more than $1,000 a day for its free demo

Easy Fox says it is spending more than $1,000 a day on AI services to keep the Steam demo of Teach my little sister how to drive free, a simulator in which players guide their sister behind the wheel through voice instructions. According to Xataka, the demo surpassed 430 concurrent players, causing the studio’s infrastructure to hit usage limits and return errors. The game uses Google Gemini to interpret speech and generate responses, with ChatGPT as a secondary model.

In an update on its Steam page, Easy Fox said it had taken out a bank loan to keep offering the demo. The four-person team has not yet decided whether it will have to remove it earlier than planned. The full game is planned for January 2027; the studio intends to include the estimated model costs in the game’s price, without charging users separately for tokens, and to support local models on compatible computers.