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That's unironically the reason I don't even attempt to find games on Steam anymore.
I'll only go looking if I see a cool game in a YouTube video or see a cool article about something coming out soon that looks interesting. Otherwise, same.
It depends, sometimes I go down the rabbit hole on their "Games Like This" suggestions on my favorite games' store pages. I actually just found a cool one that way the other day called Ad Fundum. It was a funny coincidence since it came up suggested on a completely unrelated game, but I'd been wanting a game centered around digging underground.
But yeah, with literally over 100,000+ games on Steam, it's become way too difficult to find quality stuff that isn't AAA or indie games that struck it lucky with popular streamers giving them exposure. Which sucks for indie devs that actually put out their passion projects since it makes discoverability so hard, as others have pointed out here.
I've always found the "games like this" section to be so superficial that it very rarely actually has games which I'd consider to be similar to the one I'm looking at. Just looking at the store right now, for "Aquaria" which I really enjoy, it recommends Skyrim as a similar game. Sure they both are open world adventure RPGs... but I definitely would not consider them to be similar games.
I can recommend the site steampeek.hu for this. It shows much better recommendations for similar games than steam itself.
Thank you!
It's definitely a crapshoot a lot of times. But there's usually at least one or two on there that are similar enough that I might genuinely be interested in it. You can also forcefully hide games from showing up in suggestions, iirc. I've never done it, but some of my friends have recommended doing so in order to make Steam dig deeper for finding lesser known stuff. I'm not that big of a connoisseur, though.
Edit:
I recalled correctly, and it seems they've even made the Ignore button a lot easier to find (or I just never noticed before):