Ignorant question here, but it relates to discovery issues I have on Steam, so maybe this is the thread for it. Is there a way to filter by multiple tags? It’s entirely possible I’m just dumb, but I find the tags system useless without that ability. I don’t want to see every FPS on Steam, I want to see specifically Singleplayer, Story-Rich FPS games with an emphasis on Weapon Customization and Environmental Destruction (for example). I’m on mobile at the moment and that query doesn’t seem possible via the app, but I’ve had similar issues with the desktop client as well. My experience is that I can only browse one tag, which is not especially useful most of the time.
Like I said, this seems like something that I’m just missing, and I’m willing to eat a big helping of humble pie if someone can set me straight.
I’m pretty sure I can filter by multiple tags on PC - they’re just checkboxes so you can click a few at the same time. I’ll update the comment in 1 hour or so to report back
The problem with that is what do you do if a game doesn’t match all of the tags, do you hide it or do you show it. How many of the tags does it have to match in order to be shown?
For example Teardown is a story rich, FPS with destruction mechanics. But it don’t have much in the way of weapons customisation, so do you want it, or not?
I don’t think of that as a difficult problem. No, I am not interested in Teardown if I’m searching for that particular set of tags, and I don’t want Steam guessing at whether to show me a game or not. That’s fine on the home page, or in the discover queye, but If I search for 5 tags, and a game only has 4, the game doesn’t meet my criteria and ought to be hidden. I forget what the number cited in the article is, but there is a deluge of a games added to Steam every single day. Enough that there’s almost certainly a fair chunk of games which meet my hypothetical criteria exactly, so I don’t want to wade through games which “might interest me”. There are other section of the store dedicated to that concept, including on the pages of the 5 tag games I’m browsing for.
Ignorant question here, but it relates to discovery issues I have on Steam, so maybe this is the thread for it. Is there a way to filter by multiple tags? It’s entirely possible I’m just dumb, but I find the tags system useless without that ability. I don’t want to see every FPS on Steam, I want to see specifically Singleplayer, Story-Rich FPS games with an emphasis on Weapon Customization and Environmental Destruction (for example). I’m on mobile at the moment and that query doesn’t seem possible via the app, but I’ve had similar issues with the desktop client as well. My experience is that I can only browse one tag, which is not especially useful most of the time.
Like I said, this seems like something that I’m just missing, and I’m willing to eat a big helping of humble pie if someone can set me straight.
I’m pretty sure I can filter by multiple tags on PC - they’re just checkboxes so you can click a few at the same time. I’ll update the comment in 1 hour or so to report back
The problem with that is what do you do if a game doesn’t match all of the tags, do you hide it or do you show it. How many of the tags does it have to match in order to be shown?
For example Teardown is a story rich, FPS with destruction mechanics. But it don’t have much in the way of weapons customisation, so do you want it, or not?
I don’t think of that as a difficult problem. No, I am not interested in Teardown if I’m searching for that particular set of tags, and I don’t want Steam guessing at whether to show me a game or not. That’s fine on the home page, or in the discover queye, but If I search for 5 tags, and a game only has 4, the game doesn’t meet my criteria and ought to be hidden. I forget what the number cited in the article is, but there is a deluge of a games added to Steam every single day. Enough that there’s almost certainly a fair chunk of games which meet my hypothetical criteria exactly, so I don’t want to wade through games which “might interest me”. There are other section of the store dedicated to that concept, including on the pages of the 5 tag games I’m browsing for.
I don’t see a problem at all, you just have an option to swap “OR” with “AND” as the search operand
This query made me think of this sketch as steams’ search techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMboDekgvz0