Searching for new games on Steam is not ideal

[Mestaritonttu]

The store page suggestions are too general. You need to search by tags to get what you want.

But it's hard to even find where you can search with tags. Then, when you search with tags, you get a LONG list of games, where you only see a tiiiiny picture with the game name and the game name. You have to hover your mouse to get more pictures. That's awful.

You should have game picture with title, then a frame with moving game image, then five more shots of the actual game. You could quickly glance at all of them and be 10x more informed in 10x less time.

[xelepart]

Discovery is hard - have you tried the Recommender? https://store.steampowered.com/recommender - it's my favorite tool for it so far. Still not perfect, but they've tried dozens of ideas over the years. I think they'd need much more detailed and specific ideas than this to really drive a new feature. And I generally want a different thing than you do (I think I want the list of tags, and buttons to ignore/wishlist, and NOT to have anything pop up when I mouse over' cause that makes the whole process slower...) -- it may be just generally too personalized.

I think they should make a customizable system for discovery that lets you pick what info about the game you get shown, whether or not there are mouseover popups and what's on them, and what shortcut options (wishlist, add to cart, ignore) are shown. And, like.

Then we could all get a personalized discovery system that helps us find and buy the games we want....

I'm also no clear how to get something raised to their attention - does it require active participation in a thread? Enough detail to be implementable? Someone on their side to randomly luck into seeing your suggestion and liking it? I know this is the forum for it, but does just a general post work? Or should we be promoting/supporting specific ideas somehow? :shrug:

[Mestaritonttu]

Thanks, cool feature - but again, same problem. I just see the title picture and the name of the game.

They're obviously trying very hard to make games easy to discover.

But it's like they have this "minimalistic disorder" that prevents them from SHOWING MORE INFORMATION.

There is space on the screen. Load 10 pictures and 2 moving ones. You've got the bandwidth. PC's can process it. Would give you exponentially more information and you could just scroll past in an instant if you so chose.

Yeah, I agree, customized "choose what to show" menu would be great, but that's asking a lot. (Not really, but since we don't even have the basics yet...)