I've tried to love Itch, EGS and GOG, but the thing that keeps me coming back to Steam is the ability to say "No, I'm not going to play that, stop showing it". The other stores shove unwanted ads in my face every time I visit, and it's always for the same old games I have no interest in. Steam helps me on my quest to find the diamonds in the rough, and every time I check the front page I usually see 5+ games that I'd consider playing.
Anyone else feel game shops should do more to help us find the right games? What's your strategy for finding good games with so much trash out there?
Yes. Some sort of foad button is what every service should have so you can filter out the things you will never want to see any trace of.
Also, similarly an "I've seen this and will never look at it again, good or not" option.
"foad button" ๐ I like it. That acronym is past due for a comeback
Perhaps this is an area where we need adblockers to innovate. Let people ban URLs or metadata (e.g. game shop pages, publishers, titles, entire domains), and the blocker will filter out any page element that contains a link to the URL, anywhere on the internet.
Something like greasemonkey or a special extension could do it, maybe. But it would probably need to be pretty service specific and possibly updated when things change.
Preferably one that actually works as well. YouTube has a "I've seen this and will never look at it again" option but it's effectively non-functional, as the site's algorithm constantly overrides it.