And don’t forget - player numbers aren’t sales (giveaways, Game Pass, all kinds of other one-offs.)īut in the meantime, let’s highlight a couple of random/interesting examples in there. And in our view, it’s ‘not inaccurate’ - i.e. So we’d like to talk about their metrics before it’s too late (the site froze its stats in mid-November and bowed out! So it’s getting rapidly out of date…)īasically, GamStat uses achievement sampling and other APIs ( explanation! ) to sample and estimate total player numbers for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 games. But it looks like they are finished, sadly. We’ve been waiting to talk about this, because we wanted to see if the folks at would carry on updating their site. But these are now far more intelligent hybrids - landing pages that can also be subdivided by tag, and are more better categorized than just the micro (tag) or the macro (massive genre).
Some of this already existed for individual Steam tags - which can be way too granular, actually. These pages have all the stuff - carousels, recommended new releases, and individual charts (New & Trending, Top Sellers, What's Popular, Top Rated, Upcoming).” He notes: “What this feature does is give a dedicated "home" to just about every sizeable niche on steam. You’ll get a new set of dropdown menus, and Lars Doucet, who was a key co-creator of this feature when contracting at Valve, has some additional comments on Twitter. In order to check this out, you have to go to the Steam Labs section of Steam and click ‘Try the Store Navigation Experiment’. Our new views provide greater exposure to the breadth of games available on Steam through new useful points of entry such as sub-genres, themes, and player modes.” “We aim to increase the surface area of the store by introducing a broader set of ways to browse Steam’s catalog of games from the outset - no login or complex searching required. And its overview is pretty much exactly like this: In news that we definitely care about at GameDiscoverCo, Valve has rolled out its latest Steam Labs experimental feature.
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