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?
I look at sales. steamdb, isthereanydeal etc. And if something stands out, I look for details.
I’ve been playing Gamedle recently. I tend to discover interesting games both as answers and while researching the info I have.
Front page of GOG and Steam + the steam next fest when it is on
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.
In posts like this or from friends😄
Browsing the deals section of the playstation store or reading about them on lemmy.
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.
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.
Mine is pretty useless. I have 4 hours of playtime on CSGO from 10 years ago and it thinks I want more FPS.
Manually checking out the similar games section of the ones I do play has been a lot better personally.
Edit: not to say discovery queue isn’t good, just that the similar section is another good option
Steam’s storefront and various gaming communities on Lemmy.
Steams discover queue + Splattercat on youtube for indie games.
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.
Who cares? I exclude genres I don’t like too. Play the games you like. I’m sure those poor indie games will do just fine despite a guy on Lemmy saying he excludes them.
Very nice pointer, thanks for that!
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.
I started a community for free games and now other people post free games there too and I’m accumulating new games to play faster than I can play them!
The bulk of my finds come from chat either on Lemmy communities (!jrpg@lemmy.zip, !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works, 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.
