Changelog

Changelog and version number, Next Fest rank badge

New

• Changelog: what was added, improved and fixed in each release. The current version is shown at the bottom of the left panel; a dot next to it means there is a release you haven’t seen yet.
• Next Fest: a “Live rank” badge for your site, press kit or forum post — the game’s place in the fest, in three sizes and two themes, with ready code for HTML, Markdown and BBCode. It is on each game’s card. Open →

Improved

• Next Fest: an estimate of wishlists next to each game’s place in Top Wishlists, in the table and on the game’s card. Open →

Fixed

• Next Fest: share images no longer go missing for up to an hour right after the table updates. Open →

Next Fest: the opening moment and an 18+ switch

Improved

• Next Fest: games for adults are hidden by default; the 18+ switch shows them. Open →
• Next Fest: when the fest opens, open tabs refresh on their own and every demo gets its fest peak. During the fest the countdown shrinks to a narrow strip. Open →

Fixed

• Next Fest: long places and badges fit their columns on a game’s share image. Open →

Tag Tree, Explore, plans and Next Fest live

New

• Tag Tree: every Steam tag sorted into ten groups, from general to specific, with the number of games carrying it — all time, the last one or two years, or any range of release dates. Every tag opens its niche. Open →
• Explore: search across every Steam game, released or announced, by tags, release date, reviews, price, publisher and followers. The summary above the table counts the whole selection. Open →
• Next Fest live: every demo in the fest ranked by players over the last 24 hours, refreshed hourly, with place thresholds, the fest’s pulse, climbs in Top Wishlists and genres. Every game has a card to share. Open →
• Plans: what is free and what each paid plan adds. Game pages, charts, search and the release calendar stay free for everyone. Open →
• My game: add your game by its Steam link or describe it by hand — tags, planned release, price — and every screen opens set up for it: games like yours, what matters at its stage, and where your plan and the Steam page disagree. Open →
• Alerts in Telegram: rules for the games you follow, and a message when something changes. Open →
• Help: a page for every tool, with screenshots. The Help button in the header opens the page for the screen you are on. Open →

Improved

• Market trends: a Share builder for the niche map, tag growth and the year’s release pace. Studios became a section of this page. Open →
• The tag filter on six tools uses the Tag Tree groups: tags from different groups narrow the list, tags within one group widen it.
• Game page: tags in the header grouped like the Tag Tree, a mark on player spikes that reviews don’t back up, and a detailed player chart for the launch week with the peak shown from day one.
• Copies and revenue estimates use the price a game actually sold at on each day, discounts included.
• Playtests no longer count as released games in catalogue numbers. Search still finds them, and the game page marks them.
• The publisher directory, pipeline and finder are open to everyone who signs in. Open →

Charts, watchlist and a bigger game page

New

• Top Sellers: Steam’s sales chart worldwide and in the 19 countries that have one, with how far each game moved in an hour, a day and a week. Open →
• Wishlist risers: unreleased games that climbed Steam’s Top Wishlists chart fastest in a week or a month. Open →
• Best-sellers: paid games that sold the most copies on Steam each month, with a top 10 to share. Open →
• Watchlist: the games you track on one screen — players, wishlist rank, reviews, followers, price and what changed since your last visit. One game without an account, more after you sign in. Open →
• Marketing beats: what a release date announcement, a demo, a video, a discount or a major update typically does for games in a genre, against weeks when nothing happened. Open →
• Market trends: a niche map of where it got more crowded and where there is interest. Open →
• Share window on the game page: an infographic for social networks and a ready post text.
• A feedback button on every screen: report a bug or suggest something right from the page.

Improved

• Game page: quick numbers at the top, a header with trailers, screenshots and the game’s social channels, a verdict on two scales and a window of comparable games.
• Game page: where the game sells best by country, who wrote about it (Steam curators and press), playtime, review languages, demo numbers and a feed of store page changes.
• The game page is translated into all six languages.
• Header search: paste a Steam, SteamDB or Steam community link to open the game. Results show ten games, most popular first, with their reviews.
• The left panel is grouped by task: plan a release, watch the market, size up an idea.
• The theme follows your system by default and is shared with playrecon.com. Settings → Appearance has three font presets.
• Phones: the game page, wishlist risers and the screens that used to overflow now fit, and Share opens the phone’s own share menu.

Public game page

New

• A page for every Steam game: how big it got, how it compares with games like it, how it got there, its marketing events and what players praise and criticise in reviews.

Improved

• Research (closed beta): reports open with the answer and recommendations, the plan runs in waves, and competitors are picked by what the games are about, not only by tags.

Six languages, site search and the research beta

New

• PlayRecon in six languages: English, Spanish, Italian, German, French and Russian. The switch is at the bottom of the left panel, and the language stays in the page address.
• Search in the header: games, niches and pages from any screen.
• Research (closed beta): ask a question about a niche or a game and get a written report on PlayRecon data, with live progress, stop and resume, and a link to share the report.

Improved

• Left panel: Help and the theme switch are always in view at the bottom.
• Pages start loading as soon as you point at a link, so they open faster.
• Help explains what the catalogue includes. Open →
• Clear pages for “page not found” and “too many requests”.

Fixed

• Niche pages that failed to open load again.

Greenlight quiz, Pitch comps and Unbuilt ideas

New

• “Would you have greenlit it?”: a quiz on real Steam games — guess which ones took off. Your streak goes on a card to share, and every player gets a profile. Open →
• Pitch comps: paste the pitch of a game that doesn’t exist yet and see the released games that read most like it, failures included. Open →
• Unbuilt ideas: a game concept nobody has shipped — a proven mechanic and a setting the market avoids — with the evidence for each half. Open →
• Home page with the questions PlayRecon answers, each leading to its tool.

Improved

• Light and dark theme.
• Calendar: a short address opens the list, and every game shows its position number. Open →
• Share images of calendar periods are ready faster. Open →

First public version

New

• Release calendar: every game scheduled for a week, month, quarter or year, sized by demand, with an image of each period to share. Open →
• Density: how crowded every shipping window has been, by day and by week. Open →
• Genre seasonality: the months each genre actually ships in and how those months perform. Open →
• Window Finder: every week in a range scored by competition in your genre. Open →
• Niches: a page for every Steam tag — how crowded it is and what its releases end up with.
• Trends and Studios: release pace by year, tag eras, and what happens to the studios that ship. Open →
• Publishing: a directory of publishers that sign outside developers, a finder and a board for your conversations, in early access by request. Open →
• Help: what each tool answers and what every number means. Open →