Valve announces new Steam ‘Personal Calendar’ recommendations system

In recent years we’ve seen Valve tweak and improve its Steam store front, adding new features, deprecating others while giving much of its UI/UX a fresh coat of paint. Those enrolled into the platform’s Steam Labs feature can now check out the service’s new ‘Personal Calendar’ – allowing you to more easily track future upcoming releases.

Making the announcement via their blog, the team at Valve officially unveiled their latest project – Personal Calendar – writing:

“The new Steam Personalised Calendar is a look at both recently released and upcoming games, filtered down to the set of games we think you are most likely to be interested in.”

As mentioned, this feature is currently exclusive to Steam’s Labs experiment and as such could change between now and when it is officially released. That said, as of right now, Steam’s Personal Calendar “finds people with similar playtime profiles to you, and then looks at the games those players have been adding to their wishlist.”

This new recommendation system is said to take into account not only which games you play, but how long you’ve played them for. In addition, you will be able to make use of comprehensive filtering options which also takes into account previously-adjusted store content preferences.

Of course, the most notable part of this new addition is its calendar aspect, with the list of recommendations including a timeline of upcoming games you might be interested in as well as titles which have recently come out (both in the past week and last month).

Full details on this new Personal Calendar can be found HERE. It will be interesting to see how useful this new feature winds up being.

KitGuru says: What do you think of Valve’s renewed focus on overhauling Steam? Will you try this new Personal Calendar? Which recent Steam feature have you found to be most useful? Let us know down below.

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