Here’s how new Steam Labs experiments will find better games for you
Following some recent Steam Labs experiments testing out Micro Trailers and AI TV shows, Valve’s got more tinkering in store. Steam Labs is exploring two new ventures designed to help get games you’d (probably) love to play in front of you: ‘Deep Dive’ and ‘Community Recommendations.’
Announced by Valve today, Deep Dive - Experiment 005 - kicks off with a collaboration with indie developer Level Up Labs’ co-founder, Lars Doucet. Valve and Doucet have worked to bring his Steam API-leveraging Diving Bell prototype to the platform to help scoop up and serve recommendations and useful game info to users. The experiment’s got an “exploratory interface” that helps you “discover new games based on their similarity to familiar ones” - and you can jump off from there to delve even deeper into what Steam’s got tucked away.
The way it works is by using tags attributed to each game by creators and the community to display “very similar, somewhat similar, and little-known but well-loved similar games” in its set of recommendations. You’ll be able to hop from one title - maybe something you already love or a popular Steam title - too others, hopefully discovering some new things you’ll want to get stuck into along the way. Valve’s keen for feedback, so if you’re hungry to discover some new games, maybe consider giving it a try.
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