Discussion: Sprked recommends new games for you based on your current mood/interest

[James Mason]

Sprked, a game discovery service, can help you find a new game to play based on how you're currently feeling and/or what your current interest in a game genre is. It will give you a recommendation from a curated list of games based on their reviews and sales figures, if you want to see what's popular/hot right now.

Check it out at http://sprked.com/

Source: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/255050/New_PC_game_discovery_service_aims_to_reach_beyond_Steam.php

 

[Titillating]

This is actually a pretty cool idea. It's like the equivalent of Netflix adding a 'Shuffle' button. I also like that it leads you to the game's Steam page, but it doesn't seem to include any non-Steam games. Another issue I have with this is that it's not so much a way to discover new games to play, it's a way to discover new games to buy. Not that that's a bad thing, I just think it really limits the usefulness of such a service.

Putting all that aside, I did click through the various options a few times and all the games it led me to looked like interesting games worth playing--though not necessarily worth paying for.

 

[James Mason]

This is actually a pretty cool idea. It's like the equivalent of Netflix adding a 'Shuffle' button. I also like that it leads you to the game's Steam page, but it doesn't seem to include any non-Steam games. Another issue I have with this is that it's not so much a way to discover new games to play, it's a way to discover new games to buy. Not that that's a bad thing, I just think it really limits the usefulness of such a service.

Putting all that aside, I did click through the various options a few times and all the games it led me to looked like interesting games worth playing--though not necessarily worth paying for.

It actually does include quite a few non-steam games, depending on the topic you chose, I got about 3 steam games, and and about 4 websites for indie games, 2 of which were playable in the webpage.