Exclude the tag, and after awhile Steam will stop recommending them to you. If you’re seeing a lot of them, it’s because you’re looking at a lot of them.
I don’t like souls like games. I saw black myth wukong was specifically said to not be a souls like game, but guess what? It’s enough of the same combat elements that I still don’t like it. So now I avoid games that are souls like, but also games that people claim they’re not souls like.
Based on what the OP said, Cyberpunk 2077 would still pass the filter because it does not use a single instance of the words “dystopia” or “dystopian” anywhere on the store page. 😌
There’s lots of different approaches, but I’ve had the same problem.
Steam lets you exclude tags, but they limit how many tags you can exclude so it’s basically a useless feature.
I go to steamDB and it has a ton of sorting options, including being able to exclude “Lovecraftian”, “visual novel”, “dating*”, etc
There’s also a great browser extension for Firefox which is my preferred browser. It enhances the Steam homepage (depending on how you configure it) and lets you do lots of things like quick-sell cards and other stuff.
You can exclude tags by going to your Store Settings page and scrolling down to “Tags to Exclude.” You can only exclude up to 10, and this only works for games that are actually tagged with the word. It doesn’t exclude keywords in the description. I don’t know how many games are actually tagged with “dystopian.” I get 3195 results when I search for the “Dystopian” tag, so at least you can exclude those.
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Exclude the tag, and after awhile Steam will stop recommending them to you. If you’re seeing a lot of them, it’s because you’re looking at a lot of them.
If you go to store preferences you can exclude certain tags.
Do “soulslike” next!
I don’t like souls like games. I saw black myth wukong was specifically said to not be a souls like game, but guess what? It’s enough of the same combat elements that I still don’t like it. So now I avoid games that are souls like, but also games that people claim they’re not souls like.
Seriously. Don’t understand why people like those games. Boring lore and repetitive gameplay.
I’m doing a temperature check: name a game with good lore.
Fallout: New Vegas
I’m pretty sure even if the Steam store doesn’t do it, there are tools to search Steam that can exclude tags, right?
“procedural deckbuilding survival indie roguelike”
Just search for Slime Rancher.
Isn’t the setting dystopian?
For whom? The slimes you ranch?
The massive corporation you sell to
Like… Barely.
It’s just a cute game where you sell slime shit.
I’m fine with corporations feeling like they’re in a dystopia.
Just don’t buy anything with zombies or realistic gray/brown graphics? Why is this difficult
That wouldn’t exclude Cyberpunk for example.
Based on what the OP said, Cyberpunk 2077 would still pass the filter because it does not use a single instance of the words “dystopia” or “dystopian” anywhere on the store page. 😌
Touché.
You could try the “Steam library filters” site someone created here: https://www.lorenzostanco.com/lab/steam/
This lets you include or exclude tags, plus a bunch of other filter and sorting options.
You mean, most games?
There’s lots of different approaches, but I’ve had the same problem.
Steam lets you exclude tags, but they limit how many tags you can exclude so it’s basically a useless feature.
I go to steamDB and it has a ton of sorting options, including being able to exclude “Lovecraftian”, “visual novel”, “dating*”, etc
There’s also a great browser extension for Firefox which is my preferred browser. It enhances the Steam homepage (depending on how you configure it) and lets you do lots of things like quick-sell cards and other stuff.
What’s the name of this extension?
i would like to filter out all “massive multiplyer online arena shooter” There are way too much of them
You can exclude tags by going to your Store Settings page and scrolling down to “Tags to Exclude.” You can only exclude up to 10, and this only works for games that are actually tagged with the word. It doesn’t exclude keywords in the description.
I don’t know how many games are actually tagged with “dystopian.”I get 3195 results when I search for the “Dystopian” tag, so at least you can exclude those.This works best for genre types.