Sites for game discovery? - eviltoast

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?

  • iusearchbtw@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      Steam discovery saw me playing a bunch of building games and showed me From the Depths. What an absolute gem, I would never have found it otherwise. Avorion too.