What do you guys use? I personally like Glitchwave for it’s powerful chart building and the user reviews as a whole tend to align with my own.
Backloggd also pretty cool but a little more limited to use, and harder to dig up the old old stuff as its algorithms strongly favor newer.
Anyone else use these or have recommendations of their own?
I honestly just browse steam…
I follow games publishing pretty closely. If something seems interesting, I add it to my wishlist and forget about it.
When I feel like actually buying a new game, I open up my wishlist and sort by discount. Once you have a couple hundred games wishlisted, something is always on sale. Sometimes the steam emails that something is on sale, awakens the itch to play a particular game, too.
I use a wide variety of stuff, for example:
- Reddit and lemmy threads
- Internet searches for “games like X”
- indie “best of” lists online
- friends and coworkers
- YouTube reviews of bigger titles, esp. the comments where people compare to other games
- bundle sales, like on Fanatical and Humble
- look up other games from devs who made other games I like
I don’t use Steam recommendations or any of those “tools” for finding new games. I just find I get better results from the above than from any recommendation engine.
Steam Discovery/New Releases Queue! I’ve found a tonne of cool games, both old and new and popular and niche, just by flicking through the queues when I wanted something new to play.
IDK, I’ve been through like 20 queues (I have 162 games viewed) and have maybe found one or two interesting games. I get far more success just searching “best indie games” or “games like X” or threads on Reddit/lemmy recommendation threads (by far my biggest source of wishlisted games).
Yeah, I usually find these gems a year or two late, but that’s kind of the point of patient gaming, right? I probably also miss a ton of gems, but I don’t have time to play the games I already have, so I don’t worry about it.
I still do try the queue from time to time, but mostly because watching trailers is sometimes fun.
I’m afraid I’m a victim of algorithms because I pretty much only look at stuff from GOG and Steam front pages or games that are recommended as ‘similar’ over there. And of course youtube.
As a side note. I should even stop checking those because I just keep playing the same games nowadays instead of chipping away at my backlog.
This sub, haha. I had never heard of Omori until someone mentioned it here, I looked it up and it had like all 10 out of 10 reviews in every category, I had to check it out and I am glad I started playing it (Not finished yet, don’t spoil anything).
Huh, apparently it was hidden for me because I ignore “RPGMaker” games. Looks like this is one of the gems I’ve been missing out on.
Thanks! Added to my wishlist!
