Search by Game Engine

[micidre]

This may have already been asked for but as the title says. I would be more of a niche request but I love seeing the games that have been developed with Open Source engines, like OpenRA, with DORF, and GZDoom, with Seleco, and in future games using OpenMW plus other engines.

[Gwarsbane]

Seeing as how pretty much no game developers include what game engine is used for their game in Steam in anyway, and that Valve doesn't know or care what game engine developers use, and that 99% or more of Steam users don't even know what a game engine is and even less care what game engine is used, this will pretty much never happen.

If you want to know what game engine a game uses, then use google (or what ever search engine you like) and search for it.

[bulletcluster]

There is a curator that does that but only at a fraction of all games on STEAM. Link ::
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34995236-Graphics-Engine/

Oh.. Didn't read that only you need to be Open Source.. anyway.

[Anonymous Helper]

Originally posted by micidre:

This may have already been asked for but as the title says. I would be more of a niche request but I love seeing the games that have been developed with Open Source engines, like OpenRA, with DORF, and GZDoom, with Seleco, and in future games using OpenMW plus other engines.

SteamDB's technologies page has list of engines used and you can get list of games that use particular engine:

https://steamdb.info/tech/

Do note that it may not be 100% accurate.

Out of 3 engines you listed, only GZDoom is listed on that page with 27 games using the engine:

https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/GZDoom/

[micidre]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

Seeing as how pretty much no game developers include what game engine is used for their game in Steam in anyway, and that Valve doesn't know or care what game engine developers use, and that 99% or more of Steam users don't even know what a game engine is and even less care what game engine is used, this will pretty much never happen.

If you want to know what game engine a game uses, then use google (or what ever search engine you like) and search for it.

Even so it would be cool on the games that the engine is stated, you could even have a option on the search for games that do not display the engine xD

Originally posted by bulletcluster:

There is a curator that does that but only at a fraction of all games on STEAM. Link ::
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34995236-Graphics-Engine/

Oh.. Didn't read that only you need to be Open Source.. anyway.

I knew about the curators but thanks xD I have at one point seen a curator for games that are open source too. And it doesnt have to be Open Source, if you where curious what game uses Source Engine, like Titanfall.

Originally posted by Anonymous Helper:

Originally posted by micidre:

This may have already been asked for but as the title says. I would be more of a niche request but I love seeing the games that have been developed with Open Source engines, like OpenRA, with DORF, and GZDoom, with Seleco, and in future games using OpenMW plus other engines.

SteamDB's technologies page has list of engines used and you can get list of games that use particular engine:

https://steamdb.info/tech/

Do note that it may not be 100% accurate.

Out of 3 engines you listed, only GZDoom is listed on that page with 27 games using the engine:

https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/GZDoom/

I didn't know about this but still it would be cool in Steam itself xD

[Satoru]

Asking what game engine is being used is like asking whether your general contractor uses Milwaukee or Ryobi tools

Its utterly irrelevant and tells you basically nothing about a game, at all. Any more than a general contractor telling me he's a "Milwaukee guy" is supposed to sway my decision to hire them.

[micidre]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Asking what game engine is being used is like asking whether your general contractor uses Milwaukee or Ryobi tools

Its utterly irrelevant and tells you basically nothing about a game, at all. Any more than a general contractor telling me he's a "Milwaukee guy" is supposed to sway my decision to hire them.

I know that unimportant but still it would be cool to know, even with the analogy of a contractor, it would be cool to know there recommendation of tools, not necassily why you hire them but if you do your own DIY xD

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by micidre:

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

Seeing as how pretty much no game developers include what game engine is used for their game in Steam in anyway, and that Valve doesn't know or care what game engine developers use, and that 99% or more of Steam users don't even know what a game engine is and even less care what game engine is used, this will pretty much never happen.

If you want to know what game engine a game uses, then use google (or what ever search engine you like) and search for it.

Even so it would be cool on the games that the engine is stated, you could even have a option on the search for games that do not display the engine xD

They can't put something into the search box that has no way to be searched for.... its not information thats saved in any Steam database and they won't use 3rd party site for that info. If you want it, YOU need to search for it with a search engine and find those 3rd party lists.

Again if you want to know what game engine a game uses, either ask, or use google to find websites that have that info that other people collected and put together.

Even if Valve did this, it would require all the devs of the games to then start including all that info... which some might some won't and it would also be many many years from now.... but don't count on Valve doing it just because of how pointless it is.

[micidre]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

Even if Valve did this, it would require all the devs of the games to then start including all that info... which some might some won't and it would also be many many years from now.... but don't count on Valve doing it just because of how pointless it is.

I know that but if the information available it would be cool to have it searchable. And the potentially encourage newer games, maybe even old games, to add that information into the game information. As I said it is quite a niche request.

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by micidre:

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

Even if Valve did this, it would require all the devs of the games to then start including all that info... which some might some won't and it would also be many many years from now.... but don't count on Valve doing it just because of how pointless it is.

I know that but if the information available it would be cool to have it searchable. And the potentially encourage newer games, maybe even old games, to add that information into the game information. As I said it is quite a niche request.

If the older games are not getting updates, then more then likely that info will never be added because like I mentioned, Valve won't add that info, that would be up to the developers/publishers/IP owners to add.

And its more then just niche.... in the 20 years that I have been using Steam I think I can count on 1 hand how many times something like this has been asked, and still have fingers left.

For the amount of times you are going to use it, you could just use google to find out or steamdb as mentioned. Then check every couple of years to see if anything has changed.

In the end, Valve may and may not do it, if they do it won't show up for many years because of Valve time. I just don't see a point in them wasting time and money programming this in when 99.99% or more people will never use it.

[micidre]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

If the older games are not getting updates, then more then likely that info will never be added because like I mentioned, Valve won't add that info, that would be up to the developers/publishers/IP owners to add.

And its more then just niche.... in the 20 years that I have been using Steam I think I can count on 1 hand how many times something like this has been asked, and still have fingers left.

For the amount of times you are going to use it, you could just use google to find out or steamdb as mentioned. Then check every couple of years to see if anything has changed.

In the end, Valve may and may not do it, if they do it won't show up for many years because of Valve time. I just don't see a point in them wasting time and money programming this in when 99.99% or more people will never use it.

I know that it would require a decent amount of work for little to no gain, but it would be interesting to know. But even if they never do it oh well, there are still the curators, steamdb and just google in general, so it doesn't change anything xD

[Anonymous Helper]

Implementing the option probably would not be a lot of work for Valve. Filling the field for all games, filling of which would be entirely optional for developers, would be. It would probably be only filled for new or currently in development games and it would remain forever empty for rest (90%+) of the of the games on Steam.