"Play Next" is a big fat fail imo (edit: And it's broken too!)

[GRIMM]

Seemed like a good idea. Large collections could benefit from having a random selection of popular games that have not been played from your library to entice you. However I got a pretty generic looking list of games presented.

They should have added an option to shuffle in another set if the list you're given does not look good. Or at least reset it whenever you relaunch steam. I have literally no desire to play any of the games presented. Most of them are bundle leftovers.

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Update: So I downloaded, and yes I played a few of the games. And you would think in doing this, new games would be refreshed into the list. Well, that's what I thought would happen too.

But no. New games are not added. I'm actually going to burn through the entire list, which should not take long. I'll let you know in a little bit what happens to the shelf. But so far, the shelf is shrinking.

Update 2: Went through every game. Now the play next shelf is just empty.

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

if you delete the play next shelf... its perfect..

[󠀡󠀡󠀡⁧⁧the.jester]

If you have to shuffle to find something you are interested in, then it sounds like you have an idea as to what you are wanting to play anyway, at which point "Play Next" isn't going to help you.

If you fill your library up with stuff you have no desire to play, what exactly are you expecting it to show? Also, how do you define popular?

As previously mentioned you can always hide it.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

I have a Library named New Unplayed Games sitting right under this play next?
Like I really needed that lol.
@ the.jester
Like many Steam members we take advantage of the Steam sales and buy a few bargains. So we end up with games we may not play for a while. its called supporting the devs, getting a bargain and getting tokens for the sales unique items.

[GRIMM]

For the record, these are the games that popped up on my play next shelf:

Timber Man
Rockets Rockets Rockers
Polarity
Stealth Inc. 2 A Game of Clones
Ink
Screen Cheat
Pixel Puzzles Ultimate
Spy Chameleon
Spirits
Potatoman Seeks the Troof
Kill the Bad Guy
Merchants of Kaidan
Kromaia
Ichi
Super Distro
Velocibox
Surfingers
Sparkle Evo 2
Solar Flux
Relic Hunters Zero
It Came from Space and Ate Our Brains
Never Alone
Metal Slug
Pixel Puzzles Japan
Shutsimi
Super Noah’s Ark 3D
Ionball 2 Ion Storm
Hektor
Volume
Quantum Rush Champions

This is such an odd and uninspired assortment of games to recommend for me to play next.

This is considering that I have a few thousand games that remain unplayed. Some very high profile. I mean I could make a list, but this tool is supposed to make it easier for people like me with massive libraries, as it was stated that this is who this feature is aimed toward.

And what I would define as popular in relation to Steam games, would be games with good user scores and high userbases.

Games like Timber Man and Ichi and Sparkle Evo 2 do not fall into the popular category. And even if the aim is not to pick “popular” games, at least let us be able to shuffle in a new mix. The idea of a “Play Next” shelf sounds great. It just needs that one little tweak to make it perfect. And believe me, I would definitely use it in that case. But being forced to play something I don’t want to just to clear it from the list? That sounds like a chore. Does not sound like fun.


From that list, honestly, Metal Slug and Stealth Inc 2 are the only ones I have any interest in playing.

[🅷🅴🆇🅴🅽]

> new free feature
> which can be removed within two steps
> still complains

Yeah.

[GRIMM]

Okay... wow.

I WANT to use this feature. I want it to be good. But they need to fix it to make it better.


Please don't be so obtuse.


I've actually been wanting a random game selector built into steam for ages.

They are on the right track with this, but it is broken in my opinion. Ignoring it will not make it better. Addressing issues with discourse can however bring light to it.

[Insomnia]

Well it seems to be random? which is kind of the point? If they start tweaking it to only show certain games then what's the point of it? Totally random even if it's weird or obscure games you would never play is what they where aiming for. I'm actually enjoying the feature, I've started to challenge myself to play one of the games on the suggestions once a week.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Would be nice if they provided to re-roll the next to play, or something, this way if you get a bad list, just re-roll it.

[AustrAlien2010]

I'm not even using it. Seriously, who comes up with these ideas? Anyone not being able to decide this for him/herself, is beyond anything I have ever even heard of.

[GRIMM]

Dr.Shadowds 🐉님이 먼저 게시:

Would be nice if they provided to re-roll the next to play, or something, this way if you get a bad list, just re-roll it.

Someone gets it!

[kitt]

GRIMM님이 먼저 게시:

Dr.Shadowds 🐉님이 먼저 게시:

Would be nice if they provided to re-roll the next to play, or something, this way if you get a bad list, just re-roll it.

Someone gets it!

then again you would have an idea what you want to play, so this feature is useless for ya

[GRIMM]

Thousands of unplayed games. Thousands.

I have no idea what to play sometimes.

[AustrAlien2010]

Well... now you have.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

AustrAlien2010님이 먼저 게시:

I'm not even using it. Seriously, who comes up with these ideas? Anyone not being able to decide this for him/herself, is beyond anything I have ever even heard of.

It's not bad, because if you're in a mood, just wanting to watch a movie, but have that moment where you just don't even know what genre you want to watch at all, and as you're scrolling, or swiping on reviews sites, looking for something, until it eventually catches your eye giving you some kind of hint what you might be wanting to watch, you work around that, until you eventually come down with things you found that you do want to watch. Same kind of deal with picking what game to play.

Now random rolls, or whatever, basically does help in this for those that just don't know what exactly they want to play, and just spinning the wheel to see what comes up that they haven't watched/played, and possibly may get something that fancy you on the first spin, or X amount, which eventually something catches your eye.

Basically in short, just want to spin a wheel, or something to keep your mind open, instead of reviewing the whole library needlessly. This is basically the only thing that doing it on Steam that gives you a list, instead of just randomly picking one game at a time on all those other sites, which can be super time-consuming if you own a lot of games.

[AustrAlien2010]

Yes, anyway if you have no desire to play... than that´s that. You can always make your own games, if there is nothing that you like. That´s what I would do. They don´t have to do it.