Why Do My Searches In Steam NEVER Find What I Am Looking For?

[The Man They Call Jayne]

For a while now, I have been trying to use the search feature in Steam to find games. Did a search for New World, nothing. Did a search for God of War, nothing. The results shows others games that don't even come close to what I am looking for. I have to find games on steam through Chrome and log in that way.

What is wrong with my client/account?

[PuppyMunkyBaby]

steam can't have that then

[Anikolina]

If this search system is working, the excuse they would had to blame the user and call him lazy for something that has been debatable before is gone.

[IFIYGD]

Steam Search has never been great. But it worked okay for me searching God of War- it hit on it with just "God" as the keyword.
https://prnt.sc/26eiiv7
It could be possible that your Store settings or filtered tags are blocking it from Store Search results. Or you've chosen to ignore the developer or publisher at some point. Or possibly filtered out the genre or main tags the game has attached to it. I'd look at your store preferences, and see if any thing there might be affecting the Store Search.
Not sure what else to suggest.

[The Man They Call Jayne]

System is default since....forever. I haven't gone out of my way to change anything.

This is all that shows for "God":

WorldBox - God Simulator
Realm of the Mad God Exalt
Mite - Ultimate God Pack
God Eater 3
Praey for the Gods.

[Mad Scientist]

Seems fine to me:
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=new+world
Shows that game as the 1st result.

https://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=god+of+war
Shows that game as the 1st result.

Searched "God"
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=god
God of War is the 1st result.

Searched "New"
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=new
New World is the 1st result.

[IFIYGD]

Originally posted by The Man They Call Jayne:

System is default since....forever. I haven't gone out of my way to change anything.

This is all that shows for "God":

WorldBox - God Simulator
Realm of the Mad God Exalt
Mite - Ultimate God Pack
God Eater 3
Praey for the Gods.

Huh.
Any chance you ignored the devs or publisher? Either link on the store page (dev or pub) takes you to the PlayStation Studios™ publisher page here: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/playstationstudios

You have the box for "General Mature Content" checked in Store preferences ? God Of War is at the top of the list for "View Example Products" for mature content. IIRC, New World also falls into the "General Mature Content" slot as well.

[The Man They Call Jayne]

Originally posted by IFIYGD:

Originally posted by The Man They Call Jayne:

System is default since....forever. I haven't gone out of my way to change anything.

This is all that shows for "God":

WorldBox - God Simulator
Realm of the Mad God Exalt
Mite - Ultimate God Pack
God Eater 3
Praey for the Gods.

Huh.
Any chance you ignored the devs or publisher? Either link on the store page (dev or pub) takes you to the PlayStation Studios™ publisher page here: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/playstationstudios

You have the box for "General Mature Content" checked in Store preferences ? God Of War is at the top of the list for "View Example Products" for mature content. IIRC, New World also falls into the "General Mature Content" slot as well.

I have all options to view "questionable" material turned on. I also have the replace bad words with hearts and whatnot turn off.

I do not believe I have ever blocked content or publisher.

[IFIYGD]

The only other things I can think of tat *might* affect it (and I emphasize *might*- I am totally guessing here...):
Family View?
Shared computer with someone who also has a Steam account and owns the games?

Other than those reaches- i am totally out of ideas about what might be causing this, besides

Originally posted by IFIYGD:

Steam Search has never been great.

[Ogami]

The Steam Search function is just bad. You have to be super precise for it to find anything. And even then you can be out of luck and it does not show the correct item.
Every modern search engine will look at what you wrote and then give you exact and similar results so its easier to find what you are looking for.
Not Steam.

Oh and the best is if its some generic name that many games share, then you end with like 30 results but Steam will only show you like the first 10.

REALLY needs an overhaul.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by The Man They Call Jayne:

System is default since....forever. I haven't gone out of my way to change anything.

This is all that shows for "God":

WorldBox - God Simulator
Realm of the Mad God Exalt
Mite - Ultimate God Pack
God Eater 3
Praey for the Gods.

Ah now that's your error right there.

You didn't search "god of war". You searched "god" and that's not very specific. So it brings up not just any title with that but anything with that tag, the first 5 or 6 in fact.

So you need to make your searches more appropraite.

[Crazy Tiger]

Games not showing up in search results, that can be due to games not being available in the country a person is in.

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Originally posted by The Man They Call Jayne:

System is default since....forever. I haven't gone out of my way to change anything.

This is all that shows for "God":

WorldBox - God Simulator
Realm of the Mad God Exalt
Mite - Ultimate God Pack
God Eater 3
Praey for the Gods.

Ah now that's your error right there.

You didn't search "god of war". You searched "god" and that's not very specific. So it brings up not just any title with that but anything with that tag, the first 5 or 6 in fact.

So you need to make your searches more appropraite.

No, God of War is the first suggested result when I search for "God" in the Steam store search. https://imgur.com/a/zPqaU5H

[ElvisDeadly]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Ah now that's your error right there.

You didn't search "god of war". You searched "god" and that's not very specific. So it brings up not just any title with that but anything with that tag, the first 5 or 6 in fact.

So you need to make your searches more appropraite.

No, God of War is the first suggested result when I search for "God" in the Steam store search. https://imgur.com/a/zPqaU5H

Same.

Using broswer, logged out, searched for "god" and it's result number 1

https://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=God

And a search for "new" has New World top of the list

https://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=New

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Games not showing up in search results, that can be due to games not being available in the country a person is in.

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Ah now that's your error right there.

You didn't search "god of war". You searched "god" and that's not very specific. So it brings up not just any title with that but anything with that tag, the first 5 or 6 in fact.

So you need to make your searches more appropraite.

No, God of War is the first suggested result when I search for "God" in the Steam store search. https://imgur.com/a/zPqaU5H

Fari enough. I didn't bother checking.

Although it does often work like this though. If you aren't specific enough it'll just showve the first few games at you based on a wider spec.

But fair point nonetheless.

For clarity though, it ouwld be nice for the OP to provide more info - like what country they're in.

[zaphodikus]

Search is a bit borked. try fidling with the "search relevance" drop box

It's a bit poor as per this thread same general issue
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3203749235840923332/

[웃⊱ ➵archer웃⊱ ➵❦]

yeah this sucks i had the same when i'm looking for cod

but search fapqueen and always results crazy.........