The Steam retailer has been up to date to introduce revised hub pages for tags, genres, theme and class pages. The modifications embody clearer private suggestions, simpler entry to subcategories, and additional choices for looking and filtering. The modifications come after months of testing as one in every of Valve’s Steam Labs experiments.
“Because the catalog of titles out there on Steam continues to develop, we’re working to make it simpler so that you can discover your subsequent favourite recreation,” says Valve’s put up introducing the modifications. “This replace bettering the methods you may browse genres, tags, or themes, permitting you to dive deep into every space and slim down to precisely what you are searching for.”
You may see the brand new hub pages your self by visiting any style web page, resembling this one on roguelikes. The highest of the web page has personalised suggestions, together with an in depth rationalization of why Steam thinks you will like the sport. Beneath that, you will discover choices to filter by sub-genres, at the moment common video games within the style, after which a filterable record Valve confer with as “Faceted Searching”.
Each the brand new hub pages and faceted shopping started as Steam Labs experiments. Customers can opt-in to check these experiments as they’re developed, and though most have finally rolled out as new options, a handful have been scrapped. You may see all previous and at the moment lively experiments right here.
I respect that Valve have constantly improved Steam’s interface, because it’s transitioned from a digital storefront with half a dozen video games to 1 with tens of hundreds. It is rather more nice than it was to spend time listlessly shopping the shop and library, making an attempt to resolve what to play till I run out of time and need to go to mattress.