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Steam Launches Personal Calendar Experiment With Weekday, Eight-Week Recommendations

Valve is testing a personalized calendar in Steam Labs powered by playtime-weighted signals from similar players.

Overview

  • The calendar refreshes daily and the underlying recommendation model is retrained each day to incorporate the latest data.
  • Suggestions draw on wishlists from users with similar playtime profiles, with heavy playtime shaping results more than brief demo sessions.
  • Weekend releases do not receive dedicated slots and instead appear in the following Monday box to keep the view uncluttered.
  • Users can filter by tags, hide owned titles, choose how many games are shown, and view roundups of recommended releases from the past week and month, with content settings applied.
  • Valve classifies the feature as a Steam Labs experiment that may change, and coverage highlights potential effects on discoverability for developers following a recent Store navigation overhaul.