Hi all, I know this question has probably been posted on the internet millions of times, yet I would like to receive some Lemmy-oriented answers. :) What are your favorite places, websites, or creators for discovering new games in your favorite genres?
Statistically speaking most people can find new games in their library they bought and never touched for years. It’s a genius marketing strategy on steam’s part.
Front page of GOG and Steam + the steam next fest when it is on
One of my main tools has been SteamDB’s instant search - it’s basically a giant list of all steam games, sorted by review score, with a TON of different filters you can apply. Looking specifically for something released this year? You can filter for it. Looking specifically for a co-op action shooter, or a singleplayer 2d platformer? You can filter for those too. Wanting to exclude early access games or exclude games with a min/max number of reviews? You can do that too. Very handy tool
Just think of all the poor indie games filtered from my findings because of my “Exclude: Roguelike” filter.
Very nice pointer, thanks for that!
Honestly even though I don’t do torrents. I found 1337x website to be helpful because it doesn’t really seem to be biased and no company will invest into making there product on top there.
Steams discover queue + Splattercat on youtube for indie games.
The bulk of my finds come from chat either on Lemmy communities ([email protected], [email protected], or this one) or a couple Discord servers I’m on. Sometimes a game will catch my eye unexpectedly while I’m on OpenCritic looking up something else, too.
Otherwise it’s generally gaming news. I get that from also Lemmy/Discord, my RSS feed, or showcases. I always end up wishlisting half a dozen games during the summer showcases. My RSS feed right now is DualShockers, Eurogamer, Gematsu, PCGamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, Siliconera, and Denfaminicogamer (Japanese site). Always open to more suggestions for the feed; the problem is not everyone does RSS these days.
Gamescom, then I bookmark the trailer of games I’m interested at with their release date. A few months later I can just open the bookmarks and know what is releasing this month. Whenever I find out a game is delayed, I edit the bookmark with the new date. It’s very easy to keep track of new releases that way.
I do it this way, because I’ve had quite a few good games that I completely missed because of not checking the news in that week.
Nowadays? If you want to get a game in my face, it has to be via word of mouth or be blown in by the winds of Steam.
I took a look through my game library and these are the broad categories of how a game ended up there.
- Friends (though I tend to be the recommender for my friends)
- Path of Exile, Cobalt Core
- I liked the demo at Steam Next Fest
- Moonlight Pulse, Laika: Aged Through Blood, Cassette Beasts
- Announcement through a game I already like
- Jackbox series, Slayers X, Vertigo 2
- YouTube channels
- Game Maker’s Toolkit: Neon White, Toodee and Topdee, Assault Android Cactus
- From other channels, but I don’t remember which: Gunfire Reborn, A Short Hike, Bug Fables
- Sheer luck
- I found Corn Kidz 64 from a tile at the bottom of a Steam store page, before it was released
- I found Hypnospace Outlaw from Steam’s discovery queue…
- …and following through the music credits got me to Queenjazz’s Bandcamp site, where I found an OST for a different game, Grapple Dog!
- Friends (though I tend to be the recommender for my friends)
Browsing the deals section of the playstation store or reading about them on lemmy.
For multiplayer, look at Steam charts for most active players. Any of the top 20+ games are probably worth playing, even if old.
I recently got into The Division 2 and that’s YEARS old. There isn’t much multiplayer until you reach endgame (very quick for essentially an MMO) but then there’s a decent community still.
I look at sales. steamdb, isthereanydeal etc. And if something stands out, I look for details.
I’ve been listening to the NoClip Crew cast podcast - they mostly talk about games they’ve been playing recently and after a few sessions you can really grok the types of games everyone on the pod enjoys. That mostly matches up with my play style, so it works nicely.
As an added bonus, they tend to highlight more independent/smaller game studios.
Steam’s discovery queue is a great source for finding new games. It shows you a list of games based on the games you own and never repeats itself.
In posts like this or from friends😄
