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Genre rankings revamped

Published: January 21st 2018, 9:58:05 pm

Genre rankings have been revamped by removing invalid games. We now know the number of votes each tag has so we can calculate a confidence threshold to determine if each tag should be included or not. Now, many games have moved up and new games appeared as invalid games have been flushed out of the rankings. The overall genre ranking quality should be improved!

In this screenshot we see Portal 2 is no longer the number one space game since we no longer classify it as a space game at all! Of course, if more people vote for the space tag on Portal 2, it'll eventually reappear. Ultimately the quality of the genre rankings depends on the quality of tag votes by the Steam community. You can always flag invalid tags if you find a bad one to help get it removed!

You might also notice we increased the limit of risers and fallers from five games to ten on each page, and added a summary of new games that have entered each ranking since the previous day. If your screen is wide enough, the risers and fallers are now displayed on the right-hand side of the page (as pictured), otherwise they'll still be at the bottom.

By the way, we also made the platform logos clickable now and they'll take you straight to the relevant platform rankings page. How handy!

See you in the next update!