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Explore games on a map

Type a game you like. It lands in the middle of the map with the games most like it around it: the closer a game sits, the stronger the link. Click any of them to move the map there and keep going.

The map of Steam

All 7,777 Steam games with at least 500 reviews on one map. Games that are played by the same people and compared in reviews sit together, so genres form areas: souls-likes in one corner, cozy farming sims in another. Zoom in to see names, click a game to see its closest links.

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Areas on the map

The biggest areas and the best-known games in each. Names come from the tags that set each area apart.

How the map is built

Every link on the map comes from two kinds of evidence. The first is play data: we look at millions of public Steam libraries and check how often people who play one game also put real time into the other. The second is reviews: when players write "if you liked X, try Y", we catch the name and connect the two games.

Storefront tags are the sanity check. Plenty of people who play The Witcher 3 also own Counter-Strike 2, but that doesn't make the two alike, so a pair that shares almost no distinctive tags only gets on the map if reviewers compare them.

Only games with at least 500 Steam reviews appear, and adult-only titles are left out. Below that there isn't enough data to place a game reliably.

Questions

What does the distance between two games mean?
How similar a game is to the one in the middle. The nearest games have the most evidence behind them: the same players, reviewers comparing them, shared tags. Games further out still share something, just less. Two games on opposite sides of the map aren't necessarily different from each other.
Why can't I find my game?
It needs at least 500 Steam reviews and has to be a game (not DLC, a soundtrack or software). Adult-only games aren't mapped.
How is this different from the "games like" lists?
The list on each game page is a ranked set of recommendations with filters. The map shows fewer games but lets you wander: each click moves you one step, so you can walk from Stardew Valley to Factorio and see what sits in between.
How is the big map laid out?
Each game is linked to its closest games using the same evidence as the per-game map (shared players, reviews that compare them, distinctive tags). A layout algorithm (UMAP) then places linked games near each other, and a clustering step (Leiden) finds the areas. Distance between two far-apart areas means little; what matters is who your neighbours are.