Anime Filter?

[Bubble Buddy]

Is there a way to filter out all these garbage anime games in the steam store? It would make shopping for new games loads better without the clutter.

[Morphic]

Chemistara původně napsal:

Strangely enough, i never really got anime games recommended (or i did, but it was a long time ago)

Bought games like Valdis Story and Ys: Oath in Felghana ... started getting Anime RPG recommendations. Games like Disgaea, Bastion, Transistor etc. basically no "sexy time" anime games.

Then one day I saw Hyperdimension Neptunia recommended, checked the store page and saw a friend had it. I asked him about it and he basically said it was a parody game about the console wars and that it was a solid RPG. I bought it for ~$5 and decided to try it. Well, cue "sexy time" anime recommendations all over...

So I simply set to exclude Adult Sexual Content ... Lo and behold, I now don't get any "sexy time" Anime games. I still get the occasional Anime games, like BlazBlue, Fairy Fencer, Tales of Berseria but those are "actual" games; so I don't mind. Really makes me wonder just wtf people are buying/playing that they see all these anime games covering their stores lol.

[Polverrati]

Tbh I need to add this filter myself, I see tons of it for sending some of my friends weird 45 cent anime games whenever I have an extra dollar or two in my Steam wallet.

It's become like Bad Rats, but with boobs.

[The nameless Gamer]

I play plenty of anime games (Guilty Gear, Senran Kagura, Trails in the Sky, Ys and the likes), and I read a visual novel every once in a while. Even so, the amount of anime games (good and bad alike) make up about 30% of my recommendations. How come that recommendation pages of people who "never" play anime games get cluttered by them?

[𝕎𝔸𝕃𝕋𝔼ℝ]

The nameless Commander původně napsal:

I How come that recommendation pages of people who "never" play anime games get cluttered by them?

Cuz we dont like anime in general?

[The nameless Gamer]

Idk a good name původně napsal:

The nameless Commander původně napsal:

I How come that recommendation pages of people who "never" play anime games get cluttered by them?

Cuz we dont like anime in general?

That confirms my assumption that even one recommendation with the tag "anime" is too much for them. Well, there's a market for anime games, and they're here to stay. Also, myself, I filtered out the tag "horror" and I've never seen one horror game among hundreds of recommendations I get. Am I the only person for whom the filter works?

[sotaponi]

Morphic původně napsal:

...

I have one (semi-erotic) anime game recommendation under "Featured & Recommended" and zero in my recommendation queue. Despite "your tags" including "anime" and "visual novel." And the one game listed isn't from Japan, but a German/English production... (And I don't have sexual content disabled, either. Granted how I don't own any pure hentai/eroges... Outside of Hyperdimension Neptunia, which is supposed to trigger a massive influx of anime titties according to Morphic. But still I literally never see ♥♥♥♥ like the Sakura series in my recommendations.)

Maybe it also bears consideration that these are the games Japanese publishers consider worthy of translation for their Western audience. I think cuckoldry in particular is rather popular over in the States? At least according to some random statistic I saw cited on the internet. So if you're from the States and the queue is full of ^-related... (no Idolmaster for you.)

[hedy]

huh, why doesn't steam recommend me these, all I get are pew pew shooters.

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

You still wanna buy anime styled games or nah?

if nah just filter them out

if yeah but only the good quality ones trying googling the names of animes or game descriptions as detailed as possible with many tags as you can think of, and you'll probably find the games you find suited to your tastes or preferences.

[Kargor]

The nameless Commander původně napsal:

I play plenty of anime games (Guilty Gear, Senran Kagura, Trails in the Sky, Ys and the likes),

Yeah, same here. And I just bought .hack//GU and Tales of Berseria in the sale a few minutes ago.

and I read a visual novel every once in a while.

I don't do that, BUT a lot of games have the "visual novel" tag simply because they use the style for their story presentation. Talking portraits are MUCH cheaper than making cutscenes.

Even so, the amount of anime games (good and bad alike) make up about 30% of my recommendations.

I don't generally go through the "queue" unless they give me cards for it, but even there, I never noticed a specific focus on trash games. Even more so with the top-widget of the frontpage -- I often go through this just in case, but that one seems to prefer new releases of games I couldn't care less about, and F2P games.

How come that recommendation pages of people who "never" play anime games get cluttered by them?

I've been wondering about this for a while too. Maybe Steam noticed they clicked on every game with "Hentai" in the title, so it thought they are specifically looking for them?