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Steam now has better categories for browsing gamesA long overdue update

A long overdue update

A screenshot of categories in a menu on Steam.

Valve have been experimenting with new ways to explore Steam games over the past year, with some interesting results. But among all the GIFs, automatic videos, and algorithmic recommendations, they finally a few months ago started testing a more obvious improvement: better categories.

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Valve explained the changesin a blog post. “A basic list of genres, while easy to browse, falls a bit short given how diverse the Steam catalog has become. Our new Categories menu helps users quickly discover and dive into the breadth and depth of interesting games on Steam. This menu serves up dozens of new categories of games, which can then be explored further.”

This means you can now look at a listing of “Building & Automation” games (a subgenre), of “Sci-fi & Cyberpunk” games (a theme), and of “Local & Party” (a type of “player support”). Each of those has its own landing page on which you can refine your search further using popular tags, or via five tabs: New & Trending, Top Sellers, What’s Being Played, Top Rated and Upcoming.

You can start poking around over onthe Steam storenow.