Contrary to Valve's alleged attempts to make new games visible now they're HARDER to find

Kuang Grade Mark Eleven

Unknown games have a hard time to get any visibility with Steam's release schedule of 20 to 30 games a day. Big names, and games with instant sales, get promoted to the big boxes on the front page, smaller games are banned to a hidden list that just became a whole lot more difficult to find.This sucks for both consumers and developers.

Scroll two screens down on the front page to the buried list of Popular New Releases

Change to the New Releases tab

Scroll down and click on 'See more: All New Releases' and tick the 'Games' on the right side to remove the DLC, apps, films, etc

RockPaperShotgun: 'Something as simple and obvious as, “Here’s a list of new games released today” should be a whacking great button right on the top of the front of the store, but it’s now buried deep beneath where it was previously already buried, a labyrinthine route to get something so plainly obviously necessary. That they should have gone out of their way to make this so much more difficult is demonstrative that something is deeply wrong with the thinking of how the store works, and increasingly a bad place for developers to release their games when rivals like Itch.io, Humble and GOG do a far fairer job.'

I couldn't agree more.

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Replies • 36

eraserhead1003

Oh! You ARE sick!

I can imagine that Steam will bring some more changes along with Steam Direct. I hope they will change somehing, so that there can be a little more quality controll and you can find the gems in this pile of sh*tty new games. At the moment I don't know if I like the direction Steam is heading....

For now I can only recommend to find some curators you trust, I could find some really nice games that way.

Aceofgods

Lunar

It's sad that it's easier to check http://www.whatsonsteam.com/index.htm than it is to check Steam itself.

kidopitz27

Lunar

Wait so Steam Direct is like Facebook's sponsored pages? If an indie game developer have a bit of money the can use it to make their game pop up in those boxes and if you don't have that kind of money your game will be buried in the pile of games steam doesn't show?

Deadmarsh

Interstellar

New releases ordered by date would be useful.

CherishEternity

Lunar

The shop needs a rework honestly haha

bobb007

Planetary

I think most people use some other form to browse. Steamdb allows you to filter games owned, so that's what I use.

Superkeks30

Solar

Well, they try some newly features for us, some are good, some are bad, but in the end we all will get used to it. But it's sad for the hidden gems being more hidden than ever! Thanks for the info though!