About imho.run
imho.run is a free Steam game recommender. It looks at what you play, how long you play it, and what reviewers say about everything else on the store — then ranks the catalog against your taste so the next play is one you’ll actually finish.
How it works
Behind the scenes the recommender mixes collaborative filtering (which players with libraries like yours also enjoy), content similarity (genres, categories, Steam tags, developer/publisher), and review-mined “vibe” embeddings trained on what actual reviewers wrote about each game. Every pick comes with the reasons the recommender used to land on it — no black box, no sponsored slots.
Three ways in
- Anchor — name a few games you love, see what plays like them. No login.
- Swipe — swipe through cards one at a time; the recommender learns on the fly.
- Library — sign in with Steam (or paste a SteamID) and rank the whole catalog against everything you own.
Independent
imho.run is run by one developer, has no investors, no ad slots, and no “recommended for you” sponsored placements.
What is the vibe graph?
The vibe graph is a game-to-game similarity network built from what players write in Steam reviews, not from genre tags. When a reviewer writes “if you liked Dark Souls you’ll love this,” the extractor records an edge between those two games. Across tens of thousands of reviews, these edges accumulate into a weighted graph: games mentioned together by many independent reviewers score higher edges than one-off comparisons. imho.run rebuilds this graph every six hours from its review database. The result surfaces similarities that tag-based systems miss — a puzzle game and a walking simulator that reviewers consistently describe in the same emotional terms end up connected even though their Steam genre pages share nothing.