If I want to look up a game, I do a search for it. I suppose you mean by genre not name.

I got a long favorites list, games I read about and am curious on and want to remember latter. But I don't think I've ever ignored games.

Well I got games I got randomly that are no good and have them blocked from my list. But I don't think that's the same thing.

I am far from you: 67,996. How long did it take it to you?

Were all of them manually and/or used some sort of automation?
In my case, manually: Checking the vgame page details & videos, but also a significant portion directly from listings without any review (Specific genres, Demos, DLCs, VR, Soundtracks...)


What can you share about your ignoring endeavour? In my case:

-When I started I expected at some point their site to start displaying interesting games instead of shovelware, copypasta, porn or the recent releases... but after my number things have not changed much: the discovery queues keep suggesting recent releases and porn. If I say I have wishlisted/discovered more than 50 vgames thanks to those queues I am exaggerating big time. The best case scenario: The "MORE LIKE THIS" section empty as multiple main page sections, go figure...

-It's an endless lost cause: I desisted months ago to finish the duty because I didn't see any end thanks to the constant stream of shovelware + low quality + endless DLCs
It's funny how their competitors haven't seat properly to check the million vgames Ste*m proudly announces to fight back with a fair decent comparisson based on numbers. Lazy companies, all of them

-IMO after checking so many vgames, I could say innovation and originallity is pretty, pretty low. Million vgames that repeat the same well known formulas plus features trimmed (coop, languages, textures, colors!, gamepad support) BUT asking the same average price... sure

-I wonder why/how the big/medium/small_known devs/publishers don't slash all that huge universe of copypastas demanding the e-stores some curation or raising the admission requirements. I mean, how is possible that +10k John Q solo incomplete school projects are hosted next to few tens of serious vgames?
To me that scenario reduce significantly the sales expected if the customers need to dig lots of sheet to find the quality that worth the time and the asking price... If I have a quality product: Why the hell am I the fool joining that miserable flood? I don't really understand them: Any lower fee, pre-payments, main page huge banner for weeks or whatever else they negotiate are small band aids to me


Could you share the GOG "blacklisted" addon please?


I agree about bundles

I don't like to subscribe the games

146. I only ignore games if I have absolutely ZERO interest in them and they keep getting recommended. I also ignore them if they contain certain types of content I have no interest in as well. Other than that, I don't see a reason to ignore stuff unless it's actively messing up your store searches.

OH, and I ignore games I have on other platforms (particularly if I own them on GOG), just to keep things less cluttered.

Played on another platform means that you don't get those titles shown to you, but they can be used by Steam to recommend other games.

I suppose ignoring means that you don't see those games and similar games are not automatically recommended.

I would assume this is useful only for adult titles, or maybe in some cases casual games.
Otherwise it's very hard to find any real use for that. Maybe in some DLC-heavy games you can use that to ignore all DLCs that you don't want to even consider buying.


I guess basically it's sort of like an anti-wishlist function.

Don't know, I've been ignoring Steam for a while now.

Edit: That's a bit of a lie, I sometimes browse the discussion boards.

Bit of a tangent, but it would (potentially) improve Steam's algorithm quite a bit if the ignore options included one for 'already own this game on another platform.'

Chalk another one up to ignore none because I don't frequent the store in the first place.

Assuming that ignoring a title takes 1 second, you've spent 34 hours adding all those titles to the ignored list. I'm not sure it was worth it.

They have that. It's "played on another platform" but it functions in that you own it and you still get recommendations based on that.

I'll be buying more on Steam in future since I got a Steam Deck. It is such a nice piece of kit. I'm away from town, but I'm still enjoying my games without lugging around my desktop PC. It is a really fun thing. Been working on Mass Effect and Jedi Fallen Order recently, as well as Vampire Survivors and The Witcher 3. It is a load of fun, plus it is my new all-in-one emulation station. Definitely won't be ignoring my Steam account the way I have in the past. They support Linux gaming, too.

99.9999 % or thereabouts.

Hi there bud, and thx for the time taken to share your thoughts.
I totally agree and feel stupified by the sheer number of worthless titles on the biggest and most developed market. One could earn a few bucks by creating a quality curator-dedicated page.

The gog addon is:
GOG Games data grid view

and I use tampermonkey to have it enabled on the store page. It basically allows me to reduce the list to the titles I wishlist.

As per the time needed to get to over 120k, I am not entirely sure, but it took some time. At one point I used ignoring as a stress relief. Otherwise, I would have hardly completed the job (as it is boring :) ).

All those articles I have read about Steam not really caring about the quality of the products are more true than I originally anticipated, thus further adding to your points. It comes to a point when it becomes ridiculous. They could sort this out if they really wanted, to a certain extent at least, but I guess they are taking the market approach.

GOG has a much better approach in so many ways. Still waiting for the android port :)




Nope. By name of each individual item. By "item" I mean a search category: game, DLC, software, hardware, video, soundtrack, and so on...
I would usually watch something on the other monitor, so it wasn't all pointless. Plus, putting your brain into automate something can be stress-relief ;)

don't have an account on that subscription platform

None/all, turns out it's quite easy when you don't have an account.