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 do! I have recommendations! I use this site myself, meaning it is not something I have heard about from my cousin thrice-removed. I use https://gg.deals to find good game bargains. They include all of the official stores and for those who want to, also keyshops. On the site note, GG.deals has a sister site in Poland for those who speak Polish and don’t speak English, it is https://lowcygier.pl.
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.
Unfortunately, Youtube is still easily the best. Like, even something as straightforward of a channel as Nintendo World Report gave me awareness of Paranormasight.
I’d love something more formally defined, but nah, the stream of consciousness that is a bunch of small creators making background content has been the better solution.
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.
