Steam Overhaul Makes Sweeping Changes To How You Shop For Games

As a lot of you have probably noticed already, there have been some major changes sweeping into Steam overnight. Valve has totally overhauled the Steam store, rejigging just about on the home page in what is presumably an effort to get you all buying more games.

Down on the left column you’ve now got access to a lot more of the most popular Steam pages and game tags, including new releases, VR games, specific genres and tags based on the games you buy and play.

 

Up top the featured section has been rejigged a little. This presents a scrolling selection of 10 games based in a combination of new releases, special offers and genres you may be interested in. Each of the games here now also has a selection of preview screenshots and details on why it was recommended for you. If you head to your account preferences you can actually personalise this to your taste, excluding specific tags or games you’ve marked as ‘not interested’. I’ve already blocked ‘anime titties’ and my life is infinitely better.

Below that you now get the biggest special deals which used to sit in a box on the right-hand side. Rather than scrolling between these they now all sit in a row so you can see them at a glance.

After that it’s an array of curator recommendations, trending among friends, recently updated titles and then, finally, the new releases section. If you’ve been complaining there’s too many releases on Steam you’re now in luck; they’re so far down you’ll probably never get to them.

 

Below this and you can keep scrolling and keep getting recommendations, pretty much forever. It looks like recent Steam sales in this session, presenting an ever changing list based on an algorithm of the games you like / hate but can’t stop playing.