10 years ago

Recommended Games

Actual game recommendations based on scary maths, just for you!


I come bearing useful news about game recommendations!

We’ve taken yet another step towards improving discoverability of new and old games on Game Jolt.

Real recommendations for the real you

You may or may not have caught a glimpse of the Recommended Games section on the home page. Well, these are actual games recommended based on your personal preferences!

Using scary maths we are able to pick 20 games every day that we think you may like based on your rating/follow history. If you haven’t rated and followed games since the previous day, it may not change much. We need data to recommend different games, so be sure to rate stuff you like and don’t like. Give us info to work with!

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Better “Similar” Games

The You May Also Like section on game pages has also gotten an overhaul. It previously just grabbed a random selection of the top games from the same category as the game you were viewing. No longer! We now use scary maths here as well.

In fact, it’s so good that the # of clicks into those games freaking doubled! Check out this graph.

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Use your friends as recommendation machines

Your recommendations manifest as a dynamic playlist of games that show up in your own Library. However, because it’s using the playlist system, you can also view other people’s recommended games! You can find them on the Library tab of user profiles.

And, of course, it doesn’t just stop there. If you really like the recommendations someone is getting, you can follow their Recommended Games playlist to put it into your own Library for easier access.

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