{"id":1614163,"date":"2026-06-22T20:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wKh2xn29cvUCbW7uvahSc4"},"modified":"2026-06-22T20:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:36:17","slug":"steam-finally-found-a-way-to-recommend-new-games-that-doesnt-feel-like-im-getting-kod-by-a-fire-hose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/steam-finally-found-a-way-to-recommend-new-games-that-doesnt-feel-like-im-getting-kod-by-a-fire-hose\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam finally found a way to recommend new games that doesn’t feel like I’m getting KO’d by a fire hose"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Plenty has been said about the hundreds of games that launch on Steam each week and the many features Valve has concocted over the years to funnel that waterfall of content through a straw an average player can actually sip on. Latest among them is the new “personal calendar” feature and you know what? I think this is finally the perfect way to recommend games to me.<\/p>\n

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The calendar widget on the Steam homepage. <\/span>(Image credit: Valve)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A small Personal Calendar module now appears on the Steam homepage when you’re logged in, showing a couple upcoming releases for each of the next five days that Steam judges you may like based on what’s already on your wishlist and the tags of games you typically play. The calendar actually rolled out earlier this month in a Steam blog post<\/a> but, look, June’s been too busy for me to casually surf Steam and also the announcement really undersells the feature.<\/p>\n

When you click through to the full Personal Calendar page<\/a>, you’ll see a list of games released in the past month, some from the past week, and then a forward looking calendar of the next two months showing a per-day preview of a few games (up to six for a single day, on mine) that you might like. You can also make the calendar page more specific by filtering for a specific tag like “farming sim” or “city builder” and some other options like games per page and showing or hiding games that are already on your wishlist.<\/p>\n

I’ve given Steam deserved grief for leaning too hard on algorithms to tackle the Sisyphean task of curation, but this solution is the most visually attractive and immediately comprehensible to me, a human, that I’ve seen from the store in years.<\/p>\n

I never really got on with Steam’s Discovery Queue, for instance. I get the logic in attempting to pluck games for me out of the mad bucket of Legos that is Steam’s glut of releases. Just shoving a new game in front of me every time I click “next in queue” doesn’t really help me make sense of my options (and always reminded me of the StumbleUpon browser extension from the late ’00s). <\/p>\n

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My view of the dedicated Personal Calendar page. <\/span>(Image credit: Valve)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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