Thursday, May 14th 2020
Steam "Play Next" Game Recommendation Feature Now Available
Valve introduced "Play Next" as an experimental feature as part of Steam Labs earlier this year for testing. The feature previously known as "Experiment 008: Play Next" uses machine learning algorithms to provide suggestions to gamers with extensive libraries on what unplayed or very low playtime game in their library they should try next. This technology is also used in Valve's Interactive Recommender and works by identifying comparable games on Steam. The feature is now live for all users in the latest Steam client update and can be found under the Play Next shelf in library view.
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9 Comments on Steam "Play Next" Game Recommendation Feature Now Available
In fact, I just don't want Steam.
I'm an older gamer (and software developer), and I prefer having a physical library of games. While I haven't had Steam for several years, I don't wish to be offered freebies, or social 'features', or score sheets or league tables or anything else that Valve thinks makes Steam an attractive environment.
Should I buy a games console - which I may, then I'm happy to have some of this stuff as part of the console experience, but on my PC, I want to opt out of all this fluff.
If a product like this has to exist, I would prefer it to be there explicitly ONLY for facilitating DRM. Valve are investing a mountain of money developing software and features that have no value to me as a consumer and are effectively precluding me from playing certain games that are only available on Steam.
Is it clearer now?