Finding new games you like has just been made easier. Steam has added a personalized calendar to keep track of game launches based on your interests. Valve also recently added a new way to find game bundles, which is pretty handy given the fact that the Halloween Sale starts next week (October 27).

Many new games are released on Steam every single day. There’s no official metric for this on a daily basis, but SteamDB reports that more than 1,500 games were added to the store in September (that’s around 50 a day), and this doesn’t seem to be slowing down. A good amount of these are bound to be junk, so we’ll always welcome new ways to sort the trash from the treasure.

Valve releases Personal Calendar on Steam

The new store feature was launched on October 21 and is currently ‘Steam Labs experiment 016′. This is essentially the label Valve uses for experimental features on the platform. If you’re signed in, you can access the new personal calendar feature here. If not, you can see how this should look just below.

Upcoming games on Steam have had a dedicated page for as long as we can remember, but the calendar-style layout of this new feature should make keeping track of games that appeal to you much easier. As you’d expect, your wishlisted games will show up on the calendar – a nice reminder that launch day is just around the corner.

Aside from wishlisted games, the algorithm draws from your playtime in games and looks at other profiles with similar games and hours to yours. If people with similar activity have wishlisted a game, it may also appear in your Personal Calendar. By basing it on playtime, you won’t be recommended games or demos you didn’t bother sinking much time into. The list is “re-trained” daily, so it’s always up to date on what you’ve been enjoying the most lately.

Interestingly, the calendar only covers Monday to Friday; Valve says it wants to focus on weekdays “since very few games release on weekends” and would cramp the design. If a game recommended to you happens to release on a weekend, it will instead appear in the following Monday’s slot.

As well as listing upcoming games you may be interested in (or have actively shown interest in), there’s also a tab for recent releases. It reveals a personalized list of games released in the past month or the last seven days that you may have missed.

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Jack Goodall

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