Hey all,

I've been working on a project to help those, like me, who have too many games in their library, to know which game to play next. If that sounds like you, give http://www.nextsteamgame.com a go and it will try and recommend games based on a number of different variables, you can also login and get a more personalised recommendation.#

Update: I've patched some of the bugs and hopefully it'll now be a lot quicker :)

Any feedback welcome,

Opdude

11 years ago*

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What are the different coloured backgrounds behind some games meant to indicate?

11 years ago
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They are like wow's epicness colours, I will be rolling out an update to make that a bit clearer asap

11 years ago
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Okay, but like, what determines the 'epicness' of a game?

11 years ago
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If your not logged in then it will rate them based on the amount of current players (updated hourly), the amount of votes on this game compared with all other games and the sites community average time played. However if your logged in it will take note of the games you have played and lower the rating for games in which you have played more/the same as the community average time played.

11 years ago
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I get the feeling that TF2 and Dota 2 are the top 2 games on everybody's recommended list. If your variables are including community average playtime, then I suggest you scale down it's worth a little, because what the community plays and what game we get recommended shouldn't match up so highly.

11 years ago
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Each of the categories of recommendation are scaled currently between 0 and 1 before being added together and then scaled between 0 and 1 again, so none of them have preference at the moment, it's just the community (site) data is less then steam's :) but I can certainly tone it down if that's what people want!

11 years ago
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tried to login, then... Whoops!

11 years ago
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It might be helpful to include a text title for games. For example, say I wanted to mark a certain game to be complete. There's no apparent order to the list so it's hard to find without text so I can use CTRL-F when I have over 700 games to search through, just for one game.

11 years ago
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I'll make a note of that, there is a tool tip which shows the game name, but in the search way that won't help you.

11 years ago
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Just FYI, I've updated the site to include the games name, you can now Ctrl+F to your hearts content :D

11 years ago
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Page doesn't seem to work for me, whenver I click recommended nothing happens

11 years ago
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so don't play any games

11 years ago
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figures

11 years ago
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Oh, very nice!

11 years ago
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I dont really get it..

It just recommends me all f2p games, after i blacklisted them all it just recommends my newest games in the correct order i added them to my library..

11 years ago
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perhaps cause the community likes new games

11 years ago
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Did you even read my post?

11 years ago
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yes

11 years ago
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If you cant see the list of games, disabling adblock did the trick!

11 years ago
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Interesting that adblocker would be blocking the content, there are no ads! Which ad blocker are you using?

11 years ago
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I'm using Google Chrome with Adblock Plus extension. Not the one thats named "Adblock".

11 years ago
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Im also using Chrome with AdBlocker Plus, and it works fine with it enabled. Make sure you sync your profile first then reload the page.

11 years ago
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The funny thing is, it doesn't happen to me.

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Disabling adblocker also worked for me. I'm using Adblock for Chrome.

11 years ago
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Latest Chrome + latest AdBlock works for me...

11 years ago
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I logged in and it shows nothing... and yes i stopped the add blocker on that page.

So for now i say is not working.

11 years ago
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Another thing to try would be to hit the Sync Profile button under Account, it may be that something went wrong and syncing should 'fix' that :)

11 years ago
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Ok, that worked out.

Now it's showing all my games :) that's when i clicked the recommended.

So, where are the recommended ones? or is trying to say to me that i should start playing the games o own already? :)

11 years ago
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I tried syncing, and it still shows me the same

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same for me.

EDIT the solution of the OP in the post over us helped me - sync account and then reload

11 years ago
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Do some people really need something like this? I mean if you don't know your games or what you should play next, then maybe the next step is to take note from everything. Anyway I like the design.

11 years ago
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I like this!Will surely give it a try! :D

11 years ago
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Thanks for this epic website! That was what I need to complete my backlog!! But please exclude the "0 hours played" in the average playtime of the community. That is no average anymore if you take 0 hours, too

11 years ago
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What, exactly, does pinning a game do?

11 years ago
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It only adds it to the pinned list and takes it out of the recommendations, the idea is to pin the games your currently playing or want to keep an eye on.

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So is there any way to affect recommendations? Going through and liking and disliking games that I like and dislike, after I logged in, didn't change anything. I would have expected, for instance, that after liking Portal and QUBE it might've moved Portal 2 up higher, or after liking Stacking, Psychonauts, and Costume Quest, that the Cave, also by Double Fine, would have moved up.

I mean, it's a good idea, but it doesn't seem to actually recommend things based on what I like and dislike, but on what all of Steam is playing at the moment, maybe. Which isn't necessarily what I like, or would choose to play next, at all.

11 years ago
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Nice job, deserves a bump! :)

11 years ago
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I don't understand how this works. Why is Bioshock 2 recommended the most for me?

11 years ago
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This awesome, thanks so much! I've been looking at that backlogger site for ages, but I just cant be bothered to input all my games. Your site is just what I need :D

EDIT: I also just noticed how it put all my recently bought bundled games at the top which is great, because I add them all to steam without downloading them, then forget I bought them.

11 years ago
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Glad you like it :)

11 years ago
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nice

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Really love the idea, but it recommend games that are online for the most part :(
And top games that I like is out from the top 15!!

11 years ago
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Lovely idea. Will try this once Steam is back up. :)

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I still have disliked games as #1, #3, #4 and #5... weird page and the order of the games seems to me as just ordered by the amount of time I spent in them (used least quite high rated, played a lot in the middle, never played yet on the very bottom).

Algorithm needs to be tweaked a lot, imho

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I've tweaked the algorithm slightly so that your vote has a bigger part to play in your recommendations, try Re-syncing under the account dropdown :)

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Is the list of most recommended games (first 10) fixed until you finish a game from those 10 or should it change every time you play a game from your steam library?
A couple of weeks ago it changed but now it doesn't.

Thanks.

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Closed 11 years ago by opdude.