Steam gets personal with a recommendations calendar to help you find games

By Liam Dawe - 22 Oct 2025 at 9:31 am UTC

Last updated: 22 Oct 2025 at 11:48 am UTC

Valve have remembered that Steam Labs exists and have a new experiment for us all to try: a personal recommendations calendar for recent and upcoming games.

While Valve already have various lists you can go through, and a discovery queue for suggestions, this new calendar might make things easier for you to plan your upcoming purchases. Based on data collected from people with "similar playtime profiles to you" it then goes over their wishlists to help build a release calendar for you. That, and what games you've put the most time into to help build up some genres and it refreshes daily to bring all the data together.

Valve say that while it shouldn't change a whole lot each day, it will evolve with time as the 8-week look moves on.

It's actually pretty great looking and quite a neat idea:

Check out your personal Steam calendar. More details in the blog post.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Misc, Steam, Valve

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Tchey a day ago

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Oh that's a nice new way to finding games, i like it, i think.

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Firehawke a day ago

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This is a great idea, and I'd love to see something like that for console games too. A complete "upcoming games" list based around your personal tastes. Only problem would be finding a way to maintain privacy; way too easy to fall into the trap of selling user data.

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tmtvl a day ago

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What I would like to see is a way to find games I don't know about from a bit longer ago. I'm sure that there were a bunch of games released in, say, 2014 which I would like and which I don't know about. It would be interesting to have a way to browse games like that.

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R Daneel Olivaw a day ago

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I really like this! I don't think I ever do anything with the steam labs so thank you for highlighting.

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saturnoyo 7 hours ago

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Finally, a new Labs experiment!

Unfortunately it does a pretty bad job showing me games I would be interested in. It shows a bunch of sexual games, visual novels, free games, puzzle games... all kinds of games I never play.

With all the info Steam has of my playing habits I'm sure they can make better recommendations. Hope they improve it.

Also, a reminder that the "Interactive Recommender" still exists and it works ok to discover games that went under your radar.

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