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[namenotfound]

Cry more people. There's more good games than ever. You'll see games with thousands to tens of thousands of user reviews on Steam and have maybe 5 if any professional reviews on opencritic/metacritic. 1 to no articles about them on any major video game website. The only communities for those games being genre niche subreddits and the steam community hub. I'd rather todays self publishing than go back to the PS2 era of only choosing between whatever dozen games are on a stores shelves. I'd choose today than the early digital distribution era where everything was way more filtered. I've recently noticed indie games popping up and when I search the game on google to see more about them, they're studios based out of like Mexico or Columbia. The amount of games are going to keep going up

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Valve new console.
The Filler Box.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Lol at some responses, people now mad at Steam for having games?

 

[ArtHands]

Lol at some responses, people now mad at Steam for having games?

It’s call being a sour grape. Given a choice why will anyone want to have less games on their platform?

PC already have 99% of modern console releases but not the reverse

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Lol at some responses, people now mad at Steam for having games?

For real, more games would only be a positive thing. Over the years I've found plenty of awesome random indie gems on Steam that turned out to be more fun than a lot of AAA games these days. Games like Iron Meat, Blazing Chrome, Huntdown, The Vagrant, Murder House, Infernax, Nuclear Nightmare, SCP Secret Lab etc etc and still more on my wishlist. And I didn't even search that much throughout the infinite amount of games there. Would have found way more if I actually tried searching.

 

[Thief1987]

I started through it and 90% of this list was 30 minute visual novels about being gay or having mental illness and stupid half formed puzzle games. If these are the hidden gems on Steam then the situation is worse than I thought.

Banana clicker is one of the most popular games there. What did you expect?

 

[Laptop1991]

But would those 10 really good games be considered as such by everyone else on the platform? Would everybody's tastes be catered to with just 10 games?

Maybe not, but they would still be better games than shovelware, your arguing a different point here, game taste vs game quality.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

No it's not. If you know exactly what you're looking for, you can search by title. What I'm assuming you mean is it's getting harder to find what you might like. This is also true of other mediums.

Ding ding ding. Congrats.

 

[dreamstation]

I do my discovery queue most days and I've been through over 33,000 games and I can tell you that the vast majority of that number are shovelware pieces of garbage.

 

[Sub_Level]

This old youtuber Total Biscuit used to do cool overview/preview videos of new Steam releases. I found some great stuff that way like FTL. But I think that would be impossible now with the sheer number of new releases. Pretty much just have to specialize for certain genres now. You can still be an all-rounder (I certainly am) but have to acknowlege that you will only ever experience a fraction of any given genre.

Unless you’re like in college or unemployed. Then you have more time.

 

[SF Kosmo]

There is a surprisingly large market for disposable microbudget meme games on Steam these days. It's the robloxification of gaming, kids see these goofy games with over the top premises in TikTok length videos and then gobble them up. A lot of them are like 15 minutes long.

 

[OuterLimits]

But the game industry is stagnating/crashing!!!!

Source

A bunch of fuckwit grifters on youtube!

To be fair, the market being flooded with a ton of low quality garbage can absolutely play a role in the financial health of the industry overall.

 

[cash_longfellow]

90% are shit.

I’ll take 1,900 non-shit releases on a platform all day long

 

[Sophist]

from 2017 but probably still relevant: https://archive.is/Qa3nW

 

[Tams]

It’s call being a sour grape. Given a choice why will anyone want to have less games on their platform?

PC already have 99% of modern console releases but not the reverse

No, it's called being overwhelmed by choice.

It's not just games. Last year I went into a bookshop to find something to read. I limited it popular science thinking it would narrow it down enough. I was greeted by shelves groaning with books written by everyone and their dog.

And do you know what? I said, 'fuck it' and walked out without buying anything, and spent the train journey home wasting time on my phone.

 

[ArtHands]

No, it's called being overwhelmed by choice.

It's not just games. Last year I went into a bookshop to find something to read. I limited it popular science thinking it would narrow it down enough. I was greeted by shelves groaning with books written by everyone and their dog.

And do you know what? I said, 'fuck it' and walked out without buying anything, and spent the train journey home wasting time on my phone.

That’s why we have recommendation algorithm, refund and review system features on Steam. Bad games are buried into a dark corner of Steam.

I don’t see why people will prefer a shelves with only 2 or 3 titles but you do you. Sounds like a cope to me.

We’re in the internet age, no need to gatekeep anyone from joining the creative space and release some indie games simply to sustain themselves or gain some experiences, especially when people are experiencing layoffs in bigger studios. Some eventually make enough money to port their games on consoles. Not every indie studios are fortunate to receive publishing handouts from Sony or Microsoft.

If you want AAA $70 games, there’s no lack of it too.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

I’ll take 1,900 non-shit releases on a platform all days long

Agreed lol.

10% is a amazing miracle with that many games. Even 1% out of 19,000 which equals to 190 good games would already be a great amount.

 

[nnytk]

Not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

I honestly feel like it's a bad thing. Quality over quantity. We are already overwhelmed with movies, series, shorts, reels, social media, viral news, junk food for the brain basically.

We don't need this many videogames. Experimentation and creativity are something great, but these volumes, on one platform alone, no thanks.