"Is this game relevant to you?" = Stupid and misleading

[Dasyatis]

Steam always recommends games that are unrelated to those played to sell more and more.

[Ben Lubar]

Do you have a specific example of a comparison it made you thought was incorrect?

[Amaterasu]

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

Do you have a specific example of a comparison it made you thought was incorrect?

I have plenty that I've thrown into my ignore list. Apparently because I like DOOM, steam thinks I want to play every modern military conveyer belt simulator with "realistic graphics" and every horror game that relies on the time tested jumpscare under the sun.

I like DOOM because it's fast paced, demon slaying action that only requires me, myself, and a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ shotgun to have fun.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Start comparing all the tags each game has and you'll understand.

[IFIYGD]

Eh, Steam seems to love saying just about any management sim or farming sim is similar to SPORE, which makes me chuckle.
Not sure if it hits on just dev tags, or dev tags + user-defined tags, or if the keywords in the game description are what does it, but the OP is correct that Steam likes to list games as "similar", that aren't anywhere near similar.
But this has been the case for years and years and years, and I just usually find it amusing. And have actually found some new games because it threw something weird at me that I would never have seen if it hadn't.

It's a store, OP. Of course Steam wants to sell more and more- that's what stores of pretty much any type want to do.

[Dasyatis]

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

Do you have a specific example of a comparison it made you thought was incorrect?

I was on Steel Empire's page. It's a shoot'em up. And Steam tells me that this game is relevant to me because I've played Plants vs. Zombies and Bioshock wtf! But you know what guys I got hundreds of cases like this one...

This only shows that Steam can tell us anything just to encourage us to buy.

[Qbert ⭐]

Originally posted by Lyria:

Steam always recommends games that are unrelated to those played to sell more and more.

lol do you know a store who doesnt want to sell?

[Dasyatis]

Originally posted by Qbert ⭐:

Originally posted by Lyria:

Steam always recommends games that are unrelated to those played to sell more and more.

lol do you know a store who doesnt want to sell?

Your comment is off-topic.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Lyria:

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

Do you have a specific example of a comparison it made you thought was incorrect?

I was on Steel Empire's page. It's a shoot'em up. And Steam tells me that this game is relevant to me because I've played Plants vs. Zombies and Bioshock wtf! But you know what guys I got hundreds of cases like this one...

This only shows that Steam can tell us anything just to encourage us to buy.

As said by others, it's based on tags. Looking at the games, there are a bunch of shared tags.