This Steam event recommended me Despair...
Barely 30 minutes of "gameplay". Another Unity kusoge.
The suggestions I keep getting on these events, or even in the "play next" tab, are mostly a disaster.
And, I think part of the fault is with the free games. Either because I add a few free games occasionally to my account, or because some games (like the pinball titles I enjoy) are listed as free to play, and then the tables are DLC, so my recommendations are filled with cheap looking, mediocre games, just because they have a free to play tag as well.
In this event, the only recommendation that had something I remotely enjoy was the "recommended by your friends" section, since one of the recommendations was Grim Dawn, a game I play.
The rest, it was completely off the mark, and pointless. You might ask: and what about the section about "getting back to an old game you played", that at least had to show something you liked, and played, right? Wrong. The games suggested were titles I never actually "properly" played. All 3 were titles I just launched, and had less than 2-5 minutes "played" (since I only launched them either to configure the options, and never played, or at least in one of the cases, funnily enough I previously fired up the game because of a similar event where this game came up as something I had to play, to unlock a badge).
I have been playing a lot of 2D, pixel art action games, and metroidvania titles (especially INTI CREATES games).
If things were remotely working, I would expect my recommendations to have, say, some WayForward titles, since they share some similarities.
Or, since I play a lot of shmups, and I own like 95% of FMV games available on Steam, the recommendations will reflect that, right?
Wrong. I get a lot of Batman titles recommended to me (the only one I played, and never finished, was Batman: Arkham Asylum), I get Tomb Raider games recommended to me (I never finished a single one), and things like Pixel Puzzles Ultimate (I'm not sure why), and Hackyzack.
The "play next" tab says it's because people who play the games I play have been playing these games (clearly this isn't an effective metric, it just shows that people play all sorts of games), but again, it would be nice to get an actual decent recommendation, something that indeed I should play (like, a highly rated title from the same genre of games I'm playing, but that I'm yet to play, or something like that; heck, it might even be a game I already have installed, but I'm yet to play).
Clearly, these suggestion algorithms still have a long way to go.
And, the bigger your library, the more useless it apparently is.
