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Steam :: Steam News :: A new way to discover new & upcoming games: Personal Calendar

Steam Labs Experiment 16: A calendar of recent and upcoming releases, full of personalized recommendations for you

steamcommunity.com

Steam Personal Calendar

A personalized-for-you list of games that have released recently, or are coming soon.

store.steampowered.com

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

nice!

 

[DarkShadowXI]

Pretty cool! I add releases to my Google Calendar and it's kind of a pain.

Interested to try this. Thanks for the heads up!

 

[Topher]

That is really cool. Steam man. It's all the little things

 

[Fake]

Steam always two steps ahead.

 

[jshackles]

This feature is how I learned that Halls of Torment is getting paid DLC, instantly wishlisted

 

[bender]

Time to wishlist everything and see how they squeeze 50 titles into one calendar day.

 

[NanaMiku]

wow, it's pretty cool

 

[Magic Carpet]

Store-News
Then it has a heading taking you to the personalized calendar. But how do I get there without first going through the news?

 

[jshackles]

Time to wishlist everything and see how they squeeze 50 titles into one calendar day.

There are settings at the top of the calendar page where you can control how many games show up on the page - up to 500 games! If I set mine to 500, this Thursday's releases is like a 10 page scroll.

You can also select just certain store tags ("calendar of roguelikes"), and options to hide games you own or to only show wishlisted games, in addition to the game count. Pretty well thought out!

 

[jshackles]

Store-News
Then it has a heading taking you to the personalized calendar. But how do I get there without first going through the news?

Steam Personal Calendar

A personalized-for-you list of games that have released recently, or are coming soon.

store.steampowered.com

 

[bender]

There are settings at the top of the calendar page where you can control how many games show up on the page - up to 500 games! If I set mine to 500, this Thursday's releases is like a 10 page scroll.

You can also select just certain store tags ("calendar of roguelikes"), and options to hide games you own or to only show wishlisted games, in addition to the game count. Pretty well thought out!

Snark aside, it's super slick.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Steam Personal Calendar

A personalized-for-you list of games that have released recently, or are coming soon.

store.steampowered.com

Now click on something else like your library. How do you then bring back the calendar without going through the news?

 

[jshackles]

Now click on something else like your library. How do you then bring back the calendar without going through the news?

Right now it's in "Steam Labs", so you have to click "More" from the store menu, then "Special Sections", then "Steam Labs", and finally "Try the Personal Calendar Experiment". Usually new features like this stay kind of hidden or tucked away until they're fully ready for the general public, at which point they get put into the beta client first, then into the site nav then finally the stable client. This "Steam Lab" feature literally just released a few minutes before I posted this thread.

For now if it's a page you see yourself visiting often, your best bet would be to bookmark it in your browser.

 

[bender]

Now click on something else like your library. How do you then bring back the calendar without going through the news?

It looks like it is through Steam Labs for now (From the Store Home Page -> More -> Special Sections -> Steam Labs -> It will be the top active experiment)

 

[DarkShadowXI]

I love how you can filter out your wish list, too. This is awesome!

 

[Pop]

ah damn

 

[Freelance Yakuza]

You can keep 30% of my salary, Gabe <3

 

[jshackles]

ah damn

Look at it this way: you have so much free time to play Arc Raiders when it comes out next week!

 

[ZehDon]

*Steam releases new discovery method*
*Immediately add 5 new games to my wishlist*
*Negative progress made on my backlog*

Thanks, Gaben.

 

[Durin]

It's a cool idea, and in that same way of the pinnable Notes in the Steam Overlay...like why had no other major game platform done that already?

I'm kinda hoping as this evolves I can have a bit more control, like being able to highlight certain games as my top priority during a year. I have a habit of wishlisting for tracking games that look interesting, but once you get quite a few it starts to become noise that I'd like to segregate by value more.

 

[ssringo]

Works pretty good. I try to at least browse upcoming releases every so often to keep up with smaller games which is rather daunting with the dozen or so releases every day. This feature helped me find another 4 or 5 games to add to my wishlist to keep an eye on. Saw a few games that I wasn't even aware were releasing soon.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Damn cool stuff

Looked at my calendar and its an interesting lineup suggested

 

[DarkShadowXI]

I'm kinda hoping as this evolves I can have a bit more control, like being able to highlight certain games as my top priority during a year.

I'm kinda hoping as this evolves that it takes the money directly out of my bank account when each game on my list is released.

Save me the time. Make the poor financial decisions for me!

 

[StereoVsn]

This feature is how I learned that Halls of Torment is getting paid DLC, instantly wishlisted

Oh, hell yes, wishlisted as well!

 

[StereoVsn]

I'm kinda hoping as this evolves that it takes the money directly out of my bank account when each game on my list is released.

Save me the time. Make the poor financial decisions for me!

ChatGPT has the new fancy agentic browser!

 

[Crayon]

Hmm. Looks like a bunch of full priced games.

 

[Pejo]

How do you navigate to it in the client instead of their website?

 

[DarkShadowXI]

ChatGPT has the new fancy agentic browser!

Don't give me more reasons to apologize to my wife! lol

That is pretty cool, though…

 

[Kacho]

Pretty neat.

Remember this DS game? Out of nowhere lol

 

[mèx]

This is awesome.

Way better than the Discovery Queue. I've already discovered some new interesting games this way, it's much more user-friendly and immediate.

Steam keeps winning. I cannot say the same about my wallet though.

 

[ChoosableOne]

Great, now we can use steam as our back and forwardlog.

 

[near]

It's an unnecessary feature, but a cool and useful one.

 

[Sept Terrion Of Nothing]

Maaaaan, so good. I really like Steam. Yes I know they do this stuff to take more money from us but nevertheless. I like them!

 

[Fahdis]

This is awesome.

Way better than the Discovery Queue. I've already discovered some new interesting games this way, it's much more user-friendly and immediate.

Steam keeps winning. I cannot say the same about my wallet though.

Wallet may not win, but your love for gaming does.

 

[Sticks]

GrayChild

 

[Sertyak]

Steam continues to embarrass other platform holders in discoverability.

 

[Astray]

Crazy innovative idea.

Valve really are the absolute masters of product management.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Meanwhile Epic Store:

 

[mitch1971]

ah damn

Men_in_Boxes account hacked already!

 

[Holammer]

Works great, the personalized calendar showed a lot of pixel art games. One interesting discovery.

 

[Branded]

BUT IT´S JUST A LAUNCHER!

 

[Aressa]

Okay that's very cool

 

[Buggy Loop]

Hmm. Looks like a bunch of full priced games.

Upcoming games being full price on day 1?!

 

[WaterOnix]

It already feels fairly polished out of the gate. I like that I can change the amount of games and genre tags if I want. Good stuff

 

[AJUMP23]

Is it Gregorian or Julian. Maybe they could do a Myan or Hebrew game calendar.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Last day of December - I don't see a total I will be spending for the year.
Probably a good thing. Add up all the stuff your interested in.

 

[poodaddy]

It's a nice feature for those who buy games at launch, which is something I'd adamantly advise against, but if you gotta do it, this is nice.

 

[GHound]

Will probably be a pointless feature to the people crying about curation because they own and play too much trash to actually get good recommendations.