Steam is introducing a new feature to help gamers find titles that are upcoming, or were recently released. It's calling this tailored experience, Personal Calendar.
Valve has redesigned Steam quite a bit this year, with a new menu, improved search and recommendations. But Steam is filled to the brim with all sorts of games, from shovelware, asset flips, to sleeper hits, cult classics. The problem is, it's honestly quite difficult to find games that you may like. Discovering hidden gems among indie games is even more challenging. And with the amount of new titles being released every week, it's not easy to keep track of what's launching when.
Sometimes games that you may like may shadow-drop, and you wouldn't even know about it until stumbling upon it by chance somewhere, and that could take anytime from a few days to months. Many users rely on blogs, news outlets, social media, or YouTube channels for their gaming news including announcements about upcoming games, or new releases. Of course, AI also plays a role in this nowadays. That's a lot to follow and keep track of. The Steam Personal Calendar could just about make things easier.
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It displays a neat monthly calendar with the name and thumbnail of the game that is releasing. It's simple, yet elegant, and is tailored based on your playtime. These are essentially recommendations that are similar to games that you played, or have on your wish list. Valve says the Personal Calendar won't just look at games in your library, or those you played for a few minutes, or demos either. No, it takes note of games that you spent a long time in. This recommendation list updates every day to reflect the latest data.
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All the tiles in the calendar are clickable, meaning they take you to the store listings for each game. Recent releases are listed at the top of the page, i.e. games that came out in the previous week or month, you can scroll down to view the upcoming games to find something that you may like. There are some customization options for Personal Calendar, you can hide games that you own, show only wishlisted games, filter the calendar by tag, increase or decrease the number of games displayed.
It filters out games based on your preferences such as ignored products, tags, etc. But it doesn't resize the calendar tiles dynamically after hiding the games, so there are some blank spaces that look ugly.
Want to check your Steam Personal Calendar? Head on over to this page, you'll need to be signed in to your Steam account, because the recommendations are personalized for you.
Steam will end support for Windows 32-bit in 2026.
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