Steam Adds Major Personalized Shopping Features to the Store
Steam has now received a comprehensive suite of upgrades that greatly improve the user's shopping and browsing experience, including new tags, genre highlights, and informative hubs. As Valve's PC gaming platform grows and more and more games are added to it, the issue of discoverability is becoming a serious concern, and the storefront revamp ought to help in this regard.
Namely, Valve has had the latest batch of upgrades for Steam available as part of its experimental «Labs» feature, where users could test some of them out in a relatively controlled environment. Now, however, all Steam users have immediate access to a substantial list of discoverability and ease-of-use improvements, such as the addition of genre hubs, concise game summaries, powerful sorting tools and filters, and more.
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Valve has focused on deeply personalized recommendations and highlights this time around, and Steam should now be able to more correctly curate the sort of content that a user might be interested in. For example, whenever one interacts with a Steam hub of any sort, said hub will deliver recommendations based on their gaming track record. This tracks with some of Valve's other ongoing projects, specifically the custom Steam Year in Review page that may be coming towards the end of 2022.
Valve seems to be having a bit of a Steam renaissance in 2022, by the looks of it. Not only has the company just delivered the aforementioned suite of upgrades for its core gaming client, but it's also working on improvements to the Steam mobile app. Odds are that a visual revamp of the store might be in order down the line, too, as its gaming-focused Big Picture mode is due to receive a new UI that's
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