I honestly just browse steam…

I follow games publishing pretty closely. If something seems interesting, I add it to my wishlist and forget about it.

When I feel like actually buying a new game, I open up my wishlist and sort by discount. Once you have a couple hundred games wishlisted, something is always on sale. Sometimes the steam emails that something is on sale, awakens the itch to play a particular game, too.

I use a wide variety of stuff, for example:

• Reddit and lemmy threads
• Internet searches for “games like X”
• indie “best of” lists online
• friends and coworkers
• YouTube reviews of bigger titles, esp. the comments where people compare to other games
• bundle sales, like on Fanatical and Humble
• look up other games from devs who made other games I like

I don’t use Steam recommendations or any of those “tools” for finding new games. I just find I get better results from the above than from any recommendation engine.

Steam Discovery/New Releases Queue! I’ve found a tonne of cool games, both old and new and popular and niche, just by flicking through the queues when I wanted something new to play.

Unfortunately, Youtube is still easily the best. Like, even something as straightforward of a channel as Nintendo World Report gave me awareness of Paranormasight.

I’d love something more formally defined, but nah, the stream of consciousness that is a bunch of small creators making background content has been the better solution.