Published: January 2nd 2018, 2:05:27 pm
The brand new Hidden Novels ranking is dedicated to 250 of the best, but under-represented, visual novels on Steam. This is in addition to the top 150 Visual Novels ranking for more popular titles. That's a lot of visual novels! For those who don't care about VNs, the Hidden Gems ranking returns to filtering them out, as before.
Additionally, we've made an effort to standardize the ranking algorithm used to build the annual rankings (e.g. 2016, 2017, etc.) as well as the rolling 365 day and 90 day rankings. Previously they used different weightings which caused some games to appear in a different order between different rankings, which is something we'd like to avoid because it's inconsistent (tip: you can see the ranking and weighting used very faintly below each ranking table). This will cause a reshuffle of some of the titles in these rankings today but I hope you'll agree the results are better.
We also increased the rolling 30 day ranking limit from 25 to 40 games! For now, it's the only ranking using a slightly different weighting to all the others, but we've changed it to be almost the same. It has just a slight bias towards games with a higher number of votes than normal because we think games that manage to accrue a high number of votes in the short 30-day period are often interesting, even if they weren't all positive.