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Community RPG Codex Invades Steam

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Several months ago, the overlords of PC gaming over at Valve began allowing unprecedented numbers of new games on to their platform. Thus began a long debate over the issue of "discoverability", and many developers expressed a fear that their games would drown in the endless torrent of shovelware. Earlier this week, Valve finally issued their response to this concern, in the form of a massive new update to the Steam client. The update consists of an overhaul to the Steam front page user interface, which has received several new discoverability features.

Among these features is the new concept of "Steam Curators", which is actually an expansion of the long-existing Steam group functionality. Groups may now recommend (or "curate") games with a short description and review link, while Steam users can follow their curation feeds. The curated games appear on the users' front pages, thus allowing them to potentially discover good games lost in the chaos of Steam's endless new releases and bargain bin sales.

Upon learning this, several Codexers, including myself, immediately realized the potential for Glorious Codexia to plant her flag in yet another tract of digital soil. A couple of days later (and after a frustrated attempt to take over an existing unofficial RPG Codex group), the official RPG Codex Steam group was born.

Right now, our group already has over 200 members and its curation feed has over 900 followers (leaving the RPGWatch group in the dust, naturally). It's also the most popular result by far when searching for "RPG" in the Steam Curators section. We've appointed some of the Codex's finest to curation duty, and have already recommended 46 suitably Codexian RPGs. Things are looking good.

So why am I posting this? First of all, if you haven't heard of all of this and haven't joined/followed the group yet, please feel free to do so. It's a hell of a lot better than letting Total Biscuit or Valve's dumb suggestion algorithm decide what games should appear on your Store page.


Second, while our curators have done a great job thus far, there are some games that they just aren't familiar enough with, and we'd like to have meaningful descriptions in our feed, as opposed to endorsing games blindly. Not to mention, condensing a "review" of a game into the 152 characters that Steam allows can be fairly challenging!

So, while curation privileges will remain exclusive to a small group of users for the foreseeable future, we are open to submissions of new descriptions. In particular, the following games are in need of an endorsement:

Realms of Arkania 1+3
Wasteland 1
Wizardry 6
Geneforge 2-5
Avernum: Escape from the Pit
Avernum 4-6
Furthermore, if you see a recommendation in our feed that you feel isn't sufficiently descriptive and think you can do better, feel free to suggest a replacement. If it's good enough, we'll take it.

That is all - you may now start complaining.
 

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Realms of Arkania 1+3
Wasteland 1
Wizardry 6
Geneforge 2-5
Avernum 1-6​
Hardly need in-depth knowledge to write a recommendation :D
I've put up Wasteland now, will look into the others (even tho I've only played WL, Wiz6, Geneforge, 1st RoA out of those games). Shouldn't be a prob.
 

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BTW, this group could also serve as an incentive for us to go back and do retrospective reviews of games that we didn't get to review when they were new. That includes not just old stuff, but also KOTOR2 which the Codex somehow never got around to reviewing(!)
 
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I'll do Wiz6. Nevermind, Zed added it already.

I can also do Geneforge 4, but I'd rather someone just did Geneforge 5 (as supposedly the pinnacle of C&C in the series). I don't think we need every Geneforge game on the list.
 

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They have talked about removing Greenlight entirely i believe. Thats one of the reasons this functionality has been introduced.
 

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Jagged Alliance 2 is not an RPG.

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Good work on adding all the Geneforges, guys.

Another possibility would be to add the Eschalon games, although I'm not sure they're really considered good enough.
 

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I'll do Wiz6. Nevermind, Zed added it already.

I can also do Geneforge 4, but I'd rather someone just did Geneforge 5 (as supposedly the pinnacle of C&C in the series). I don't think we need every Geneforge game on the list.
Good work on adding all the Geneforges, guys.

Another possibility would be to add the Eschalon games, although I'm not sure they're really considered good enough.
I added Wiz 6 and all the Geneforges but feel free to edit them, and also feel free to add the Avernum games. Fucking Vogel games are all the same I don't know what to write.
(I also added Wasteland).
(and Nethergate: Resurrection).
 

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Edited your descriptions a bit - I hope you're fine with that.

As for Avernum, I'd only suggest adding Avernum 6. Otherwise the first page of our curator list is going to be nothing but Vogel's games :M
 

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Edited your descriptions a bit - I hope you're fine with that.

As for Avernum, I'd only suggest adding Avernum 6. Otherwise the first page of our curator list is going to be nothing but Vogel's games :M
yeah it's too bad you can't just add the "geneforge pack" as a recommendation.
 

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As for Avernum, I'd only suggest adding Avernum 6. Otherwise the first page of our curator list is going to be nothing but Vogel's games :M

Haha, in retrospect, it would have been better if we'd spaced them out between other games. But I don't think we should avoid recommending games just because it'll be spammy.

There are still the Arkanias, so we can put a couple of Avernums between each of those, or just add them after the Avernums.
 
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Edited your descriptions a bit - I hope you're fine with that.

As for Avernum, I'd only suggest adding Avernum 6. Otherwise the first page of our curator list is going to be nothing but Vogel's games :M

Would be cool if Steam would allow us to rank these lists.
 

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Yeah, like I said in another thread, I wish we could re-arrange the entries.

Alternatively, the display order could be randomized. This would help people discover more games, at least.
 

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Crooked Bee Remember that the intended form of use for Steam Curation is not people browsing your list directly - it's getting recommendations on their front page, which ARE randomized to some extent, I believe.
 

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Should be combined with an RPG Codex YouTube channel for maximum exposure. :M
 

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Crooked Bee Remember that the intended form of use for Steam Curation is not people browsing your list directly - it's getting recommendations on their front page, which ARE randomized to some extent, I believe.

True, but a lot of people also browse/follow links to the list directly, in which case the first page makes the most important impression. Randomization or ability to re-order could help in these cases, at least.
 

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Oh, another thing, Avernum 2 and 3 aren't actually on Steam yet, so it won't be quite that spammy.
 
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They have talked about removing Greenlight entirely i believe. Thats one of the reasons this functionality has been introduced.

I don't think it serves the same function. Curators recommend games already on Steam (basically, they are your trusted reviewers), Greenlight is Valve asking you to vote on what should be released on Steam.

edit: they could work together with Curators pointing you to specific games undergoing greenlight process, though.
 

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