Encourage More Non-Violent Gaming

[szahn]

There are too many violent games featuring blood, murder, etc.. When I go through the Steam recommendations, almost all of the games are violent in nature. Not everyone wants to play a bloody murderous video game. There are adults who would rather play as a rational pacifist. Steam, please have a new category or tags for non-violent games and please update your algorithm to encourage more peaceful games thank you.

[Aachen]

Practically speaking, what so you see “updating the algorithm to encourage more peaceful games” to specifically entail?

[m662]

https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences
Uncheck the type of content you do not want to see and the algorithm filter should take care of it for your instance.

In addition you can simply filter on the global tags
https://store.steampowered.com/tag/browse/#global_492

[potato]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1222670/The_Sims_4/

[Axe]

Originally posted by szahn:

There are too many violent games featuring blood, murder, etc.. When I go through the Steam recommendations, almost all of the games are violent in nature. Not everyone wants to play a bloody murderous video game. There are adults who would rather play as a rational pacifist. Steam, please have a new category or tags for non-violent games and please update your algorithm to encourage more peaceful games thank you.

Go play your games then. They are out the if you look. You don't have to deride others pleasure to make your point unless that is your real point all along.

[IFIYGD]

Originally posted by szahn:

There are too many violent games featuring blood, murder, etc.. When I go through the Steam recommendations, almost all of the games are violent in nature. Not everyone wants to play a bloody murderous video game. There are adults who would rather play as a rational pacifist. Steam, please have a new category or tags for non-violent games and please update your algorithm to encourage more peaceful games thank you.

Putting more figure skating on TV is not going to stop American football fans, or wrestling fans, or boxing fans to stop wanting to watch football, or wrestling, or boxing and start watching more figure skating.
It's just going to frustrate them, possibly make them angry, and look to other places to get what they want to see.

The same goes for gaming, and what games a store sells.
Steam is a game store, and a launch platform. If they started pushing games that only a minority of people want to play, they'd lose customers and money.
Not going to happen. Valve is a business- businesses exist to make money, even the so-called non-profit businesses and orgs whose CEOs are rolling in piles of money.

There are plenty of peaceful and non-violent games on Steam. They just aren't the ones that make the most money, and a business is going to promote what makes them the most money.
There are a ton of peaceful walking sims, city builders, business type sims, farming games, puzzle games, casual match 3 games, idle clickers and such on Steam. There is no shortage. If that's what you want to play- you can find them. Let other people play what they want to play.

[invision2212]

I’ve played all these games and can recommend them


https://store.steampowered.com/app/237850/Dreamfall_Chapters/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/522470/The_House_of_Da_Vinci/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/288160/The_Room/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/301860/Submerged/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1410640/Syberia_The_World_Before/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/501300/What_Remains_of_Edith_Finch/

[GigaByteWide]

You can play friendly games of Gold With Friends & Monopoly. You'll have a chance to be evil to your friends too.

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/678310/?snr=1_5_9__205

[Heraclius Caesar]

Originally posted by szahn:

There are too many violent games featuring blood, murder, etc.. When I go through the Steam recommendations, almost all of the games are violent in nature. Not everyone wants to play a bloody murderous video game. There are adults who would rather play as a rational pacifist. Steam, please have a new category or tags for non-violent games and please update your algorithm to encourage more peaceful games thank you.

This seems like kind of a popcorn fart of a complaint tbh. There are quite literally thousands upon thousands of nonviolent, chill, peaceful games on Steam. You'll be alright.

[RANGER]

another day, another clown award farmer

[Axe]

I often wonder if those people make some dumb thread and then get a mate to give it award(s)

[Shaggin'Wagon]

Originally posted by szahn:

There are too many violent games featuring blood, murder, etc.. When I go through the Steam recommendations, almost all of the games are violent in nature. Not everyone wants to play a bloody murderous video game. There are adults who would rather play as a rational pacifist. Steam, please have a new category or tags for non-violent games and please update your algorithm to encourage more peaceful games thank you.

Actually there's not enough. Games with blood are the ones I desire the most actually. If a shooter game doesn't have blood I get bored pretty quick because of how fake it is.

[Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥)]

Originally posted by RANGER:

another day, another clown award farmer

...and someone who awards them so they have reason to keep doing it.

[natshely]

You can use this tag -
https://store.steampowered.com/tags/en/Wholesome/?offset=24
or curator groups -
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35899705-Non-violent-Entertainment/
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35411526-Wholesome-Games-%25E2%2599%25A5/

[Silverkite]

Originally posted by szahn:

There are too many violent games featuring blood, murder, etc.. When I go through the Steam recommendations, almost all of the games are violent in nature. Not everyone wants to play a bloody murderous video game. There are adults who would rather play as a rational pacifist. Steam, please have a new category or tags for non-violent games and please update your algorithm to encourage more peaceful games thank you.

just move to LA bro and start your 21438239804238423842384902834023423th anti violent game movement