Please add a game review keyword search feature

[Kogan]

Guys...it's 2024, we need a review search feature. Even Amazon with how outdated and unappealing their site looks and how annoying it can be to get around it at times, has a review search feature.

I'm sure most of you guys working as Steam employees shop at Amazon and are aware of how popular it is. They're popular for a reason, take notes from them, learn from them, take some pages from their book and do some of what they're doing to improve your own platform, make an even better search feature than what they have. They have a review search feature for a very good reason, because they realize the importance of it and how useful it is for the customer.

Every single one of us on the planet wants to buy with confidence, to get the best bang for our buck, we want to know exactly what we're purchasing. Review keyword searching can help a great deal with that.

Here's one very relatable scenario - for example, I'm a big 'action game junkie', my favorite genre. But I hate puzzles with a passion, it just brings all the momentum of the game to a halt, it's a waste of time to me, just a time sink when thrown into action games. I don't like being forced to stand or run around wasting time doing puzzles. Some puzzles can be tolerable but some games overdo the puzzles in an action or RPG title to where it's constantly happening and getting increasingly difficult and annoying when you have no interest in puzzles in the first place. It ruins my gameplay experience completely.

So with a game review keyword search feature, I can quickly search 'puzzle' and 'puzzles' and find out if there are puzzles in the game or not and if so, how much of a nuisance they are either by reading through that review that touches on that topic or by looking through the other search results. Or it'll at least be a good starting point to then go search other places like the discussion forums for the game or online, which may or may not have additional information about it.

And if there isn't information about what I'm looking for online or on the game's discussion forums, I'll likely be able to count on the game reviews by searching through them with a keyword search. All about having multiple sources of valuable information about the product we're considering to purchase.

And that's another thing....we're able to search on the game's discussion forums yet we still don't have the ability to search reviews yet. Please add this much needed feature, people have been asking for several years.

[Ben Lubar]

You're asking for tags. What you are asking for is tags. Games already have tags.