Play Next uses machine learning — the same for Steam’s Interactive Recommender — to choose three games based on what you already own. Maybe this can help ease some of that guilt over all ...

This, in turn, should pre-empt issues with developers trying to game the system by choosing popular tags or leaning on positive reviews, as they have with previous recommendation algorithms.

How the Interactive Recommender Could Fix Steam’s Search Problem Currently, Steam relies on a tag-based system that recommends games to customers based on titles with similar, user added tags.