Every time I use Steam’s discovery queue or any “what to play next” site, I get bombarded with stuff from the last 6 months. I get it - that’s what generates clicks and sales - but it’s genuinely unhelpful for how most of us here actually want to play.
I’ve been quietly working on a tool to change that. The core idea - your taste doesn’t have an expiration date, so recommendations shouldn’t either. Something from 2011 that fits exactly what you’re looking for should surface just as easily as a 2024 release.
It’s early and rough around the edges, but I’m at the point where I want to validate whether this is even a problem worth solving for other people or just a me.
If a recommendation algorithm for games like this existed - smarter discovery that actually respects older games - would you use it?
What features would make it genuinely useful vs just another thing you try once and forget about? I want it to be the tool someone actually recommends to a friend, not just upvotes and forgets.
Thanks for sharing that webpage, I see some cool games present there
Oh man, my actual favorite game of all time is Descent 1 and 2…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed_78HTkRbQ
The proper spiritual successor to that (looking past Descent 3, for reasons), is Overload…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ5RFBo0L_U
The catch with Overload (which was actually developed by the two lead developers of Descent), is that it really will overload your system and push it to the max.
Overload is like 20 years newer than Descent, and I can only get like 3 frames per second on my potato laptop. ☹️
So, with that thought in mind, even though both Descent and Overload are both exactly the same genre of game, they are two decades apart in system requirements…
Take that information however you will, but yeah I’d probably have some sort of toggle option to limit suggestions to similar games to other games released +/- 5 years or so…
Hi, that’s actually a great suggestion, thank you