Search filter to exclude unwanted tags

[ScarletUni7 🌹🦄🍑🌈🌕]

Say you are searching for just a certain something, and you know what you don't want. For example a first person shooter that isn't a horror game, or vice vera? A puzzle game that isn't a platformer, or vice versa? An MMO that isn't an RPG, or vice versa?

It would be lovely to have an exclusion option to get rid of games with unwanted tags. For when you know what you don't want as much as what you do.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Use negative signs to exclude tags based on their code.

Example:

http://store.steampowered.com/search/?tags=19,122,4085,-1756
This URL includes "action" (19) and "RPG" (122) and "anime" (4085) but excludes "great soundtrack" (1756).

Find tag codes by watching how the webpage URL changes when you apply/de-apply tags in store search.

[ScarletUni7 🌹🦄🍑🌈🌕]

Great! It'd be amazing if this was given a GUI system too.

[Tev]

Originally posted by RyanInk:

Great! It'd be amazing if this was given a GUI system too.

Yup, or certain tags at least had inclusion like Early Access; so it could be excluded by the method mentioned above.

(493 in the sourcecode).

+1 for this.

[Epic Loci]

price rages for searching on the market

[HaikenEdge]

Please, please, please. This needs to be a thing. I'd like to search RPGs while at the same time excluding JRPGs and RPGmaker games.

[ScarletUni7 🌹🦄🍑🌈🌕]

I'm kinda worried about false tags now though. Tags are sometimes unreliable now...

[HaikenEdge]

I think a lot more more than one person has to tag something as that before it gets recognized for that tag.

[ScarletUni7 🌹🦄🍑🌈🌕]

Originally posted by HaikenEdge:

I think a lot more more than one person has to tag something as that before it gets recognized for that tag.

Look up games on Steam Spy. It's not really that many people needed, it looks like.

[Vizvayu]

+1
It could work simply by clicking again a tag, so it becomes excluded instead of included.
I REALLY want this. I'm tired of wasting time browsing adventure and rpgmaker games that I'd never buy.

[Elf]

Does anyone know an easy way to get a list of tag code numbers?

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by Elf:

Does anyone know an easy way to get a list of tag code numbers?

Add the tag to your search, then observe the change in the URL, and you can easily deduce the tag. Add another tag, keep watching the URL, watch how it changes again for the next tag number. Rinse and repeat until done. If it gets too long, remove all the tags and then apply your next tag.

[Elf]

I'd gotten that, plus the ability to go to the main "explore" page and open each category in a new tab and check the tag ID. I was hoping there was a list of all the tag numbers so I didn't have to open each individually.

The explore page has over three hundred tags. I'm hoping that I can find someone to create a simple UI that'll allow someone to click through what they want and what they don't, and generate a URL--even if Steam won't create such an option, it'd be easy to put one on a separate website with instructions to copy/paste into a new tab or window.

But it's slow work, gathering each tag manually, and I don't have a way of finding out what other tags exist.

[Elf]

It also doesn't work right; http://store.steampowered.com/search/?tags=-113 should exclude "Free to Play" and it doesn't.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by Elf:

It also doesn't work right; http://store.steampowered.com/search/?tags=-113 should exclude "Free to Play" and it doesn't.

I think Free to Play and Early Access don't work right with this method. I'm not sure why.

[Elf]

damn. Those are two I really want to filter out; I'm tired of sorting by price and having to wade through 30+ pages of ftp before I get to the sale items.

I also wish I had a way to filter demos and items that haven't yet been released.