Valve Improves Steam Search System, Makes it Easier For Store Users to Find Games

[T0@st]

Store Quick-Search now includes developer pages and tags, also it will be better at handling of misspelled words. Today, we rolled out an update to the Steam store search to add more ways for players to search. Recently we've noticed more players searching for particular store hubs, tags, or developers so we've updated Steam store search to handle those destinations. For these new results, we'll show a new format with a subtle background generated from images of the most popular games in that result. Let's take a quick look at all the recent search updates...

Search for Developers, Publishers, and Franchises
Additionally, players can now search directly for your developer or publisher if you have set up a homepage. For more about developer and publisher homepages, please see: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/creator_homepage. Looking for a particular developer or publisher on Steam? Excited about a specific gaming franchise? Now those appear in the quick search results too. Looking for "Bethesda" games? Or perhaps you want to browse all the "Star Wars" or "Final Fantasy" games. Now you can!



Search Across Tags and Categories
Now players can search for any tag, genre, theme, or category and find a link directly to the right store hub to explore those games. This will work for any valid tag such as "football" or "FPS" or "space" as well as special categories like "Early Access" and "Free to Play." Released today, the auto-suggestion drop-down that appears when you start typing into the main search field in the Steam store will now return tags, developers, publishers, and franchises if there are reasonable matches. You can search for categories like "Free to play" or individual tags like "survival" or "zombies".



Better Handling Of Typing Mistakes
We've also recently updated the search suggestions to better handle typing mistakes or misspelled words.



Also Available In The Steam Mobile App
These improvements are also part of the Steam Mobile App (and the Steam website when viewed on mobile devices). To learn more about the Steam Mobile App, check out: https://store.steampowered.com/mobile

Go Search Now!
Check out the updated search functionality today by simply starting a search from the store search bar.

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[TechLurker]

It's the little details that matters.

It was always a bit frustrating to navigate to a Publisher's page by first searching up a game they made, then clicking on the publisher to get to a general front for them and their games, or only being able to see them during a Publisher sale.

 

[Space Lynx]

my steam is glitched and laggy as crap, but its probably my fault for switching back and from beta channel to stable so much... so eh. lol

I plan to do a clean install soon anyway

 

[64K]

Meanwhile Tim Sweeney is bewildered why Steam is so popular and EGS is still second rate 4.5 years after opening and he has to keep giving away games and creating timed exclusives in order to lure PC gamers onto EGS in hopes that they will buy something. Sweeney, you better hope that the Fortnite billions from microtransactions doesn't dry up one day.

 

[evernessince]

my steam is glitched and laggy as crap, but its probably my fault for switching back and from beta channel to stable so much... so eh. lol

I plan to do a clean install soon anyway

Trying clearing out steam's cache. That usually fixes most bugs like this.

 

[DemonicRyzen666]

I don't use steam; I use G.o.G, but it seems like a Lot of these places that sell Pc games. Are missing having a search to find newer DX12/Vulkan games or raytracing games in general. Instead, it's usually a bunch of Indie titles for new releases. I usually to have to head over to wiki just figure out what the game has in it lately.

 

[Guwapo77]

Well this is good, any improvement to the system is a good in my eyes.