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Steam’s new store center makes browsing games more enjoyable
Remember those “experiments” that were being carried out in the Steam Lab? It’s been a while since we talked about them last time, but it’s basically a Beta testing system for Steam’s new features. Users can choose to join or not, depending on their interest in whatever it offers. Most of the new features are to make the large number of games on Steam easier to manage through better recommendations or more flexible browsing methods.
new Store center experiment The products launched today have done a little bit of both by visually transforming the category center to make them easier to browse. It also contains a “rich recommendation carousel”, which contains “new, best-selling and discounted” games curated by Steam’s recommendation system through algorithms.
The rich recommendation carousel not only contains a list of games, but also “contains more metadata about each game, including tags, release dates and review ratings, as well as a large number of displays of game mini-trailers.” This feature is derived from one of the first A Steam lab experiment.
The overhauled store center will also provide information about game developers’ news, updates, and upcoming events in your library, your wish list, or your recommendations. “Tag-driven recommendations” have also been included in the news center, and filtering tools have also been included in the news center. These tools can sort by new versions, trends, best sellers, highest reviews, discount amounts, game features, tags, or anything you know Sort.
To see the new store center in action, go to Steam Lab page, Scroll down, and click the “Join Experiment” button. This will get you into one of the new store centers, which is definitely more gorgeous than the old design. A series of featured games splash at the top of the screen, game information, tags, recommended reasons, and trailers explode in the background, followed by easy-to-parse lists of games based on various categories: wish lists, new versions, “coming soon”, etc.
A list of games similar to those available in Steam’s current store center follows closely behind, with various filters, so you can really dive into the game you want.Suppose, for example, you are looking for a physics-based comedy 2D precision platform game with multiple endings, level editor, PvP, and cooperative multiplayer: let me introduce you Sundries, The standalone release in November 2021, I discovered it through a random selection filter, until I ended up making only one game.
I am not a big Steam browser, and my backlog is so large that the last thing I need is to recommend more fun things. In other words, this looks like a meaningful upgrade to the storefront, and I hope people who like to browse will find it very useful. The good news is that if you try it and don’t care about it, it’s easy to switch back: just click the “Steam Labs Experiment 13” button just below the Steam store search field, and it will switch you back to the old fashioned.