Sites for game discovery?

zebus@lemmy.sdf.org to Patient Gamers@sh.itjust.works – 2 points –

What do you guys use? I personally like Glitchwave for it's powerful chart building and the user reviews as a whole tend to align with my own.

Backloggd also pretty cool but a little more limited to use, and harder to dig up the old old stuff as its algorithms strongly favor newer.

Anyone else use these or have recommendations of their own?

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I honestly just browse steam...

I follow games publishing pretty closely. If something seems interesting, I add it to my wishlist and forget about it.

When I feel like actually buying a new game, I open up my wishlist and sort by discount. Once you have a couple hundred games wishlisted, something is always on sale. Sometimes the steam emails that something is on sale, awakens the itch to play a particular game, too.

Steam Discovery/New Releases Queue! I've found a tonne of cool games, both old and new and popular and niche, just by flicking through the queues when I wanted something new to play.

Steam discovery saw me playing a bunch of building games and showed me From the Depths. What an absolute gem, I would never have found it otherwise. Avorion too.

I use a wide variety of stuff, for example:

  • Reddit and lemmy threads
  • Internet searches for "games like X"
  • indie "best of" lists online
  • friends and coworkers
  • YouTube reviews of bigger titles, esp. the comments where people compare to other games
  • bundle sales, like on Fanatical and Humble
  • look up other games from devs who made other games I like

I don't use Steam recommendations or any of those "tools" for finding new games. I just find I get better results from the above than from any recommendation engine.

I do! I have recommendations! I use this site myself, meaning it is not something I have heard about from my cousin thrice-removed. I use https://gg.deals to find good game bargains. They include all of the official stores and for those who want to, also keyshops. On the site note, GG.deals has a sister site in Poland for those who speak Polish and don't speak English, it is https://lowcygier.pl.

Unfortunately, Youtube is still easily the best. Like, even something as straightforward of a channel as Nintendo World Report gave me awareness of Paranormasight.

I'd love something more formally defined, but nah, the stream of consciousness that is a bunch of small creators making background content has been the better solution.

SplatterCat, AlphaBetaGamer, MandaloreGaming... any other good YouTubers for game discovery? Also RIP TotalBiscuit, he was the best of them all.