Garden Story
Unify a broken community as the newly-appointed Guardian of The Grove. Surprisingly absorbing once you get into the rhythm of it.
View on SteamWhat Should You Play From Your Steam Library?
If your Steam library has 200 unplayed games, the best recommendation is one you already own. Connect Steam to PlayScout and the matcher cross-references your owned games against your current mood — your time, energy, and vibe right now. Instead of buying something new, you get a re-ranking of the games already sitting in your launcher. Below is a sample of the kind of picks the matcher surfaces by default, before any library data.
The picks
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is an anti-adventure game about picking up trash in an alien bazaar. The kind of sim that pulls you in with its attention to detail.
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Fresh Start
Feel Good Post-apo simulator of cleaning up and repairing a fallen world in single-player FPS mode. Surprisingly absorbing once you get into the rhythm of it.
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If Found...
More interactive novel than game, and that's exactly the point. If Found… is an interactive visual novel from Dreamfeel about searching for connection.
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Dig Island
Dig Island is a 4-player co-op digging game. The kind of sim that pulls you in with its attention to detail.
View on SteamWhy these games
Most game-recommendation tools push new purchases. PlayScout pushes finishing what you started. The Steam connect flow pulls your owned-games list and your last-2-weeks playtime, then runs the same mood matcher against it — but constrained to the catalog of games you already paid for.
The picks below this paragraph aren’t your library — they’re a default mood preset to give you a feel for what the matcher does. To get the version tuned to your library, sign in and link Steam from your profile. The Hub page (/hub) then surfaces three columns: games you’re actively playing, games you own but never touched, and recommendations from your owned set based on your taste vector.
Why this matters: every game you own is already free. The cost of starting is zero. The blocker is decision fatigue, not budget. Match your mood against your library and the right pick is usually three rows down a list you’ve been ignoring for two years.
Frequently asked
- How does Steam connection work?
- PlayScout uses Steam OpenID to verify your account — no password is ever shared. Once linked, the Steam Web API pulls your owned games, recently-played list, and total playtime per game. The data is stored against your PlayScout profile and used only to power library-aware recommendations on the Hub. You can disconnect at any time from the profile page.
- What if my Steam profile is private?
- Steam exposes owned-games data only when the profile and game-details visibility are public. If yours is private, the connect flow tells you exactly what to change — the privacy guide modal walks through the two settings to flip on Steam, then come back and resync. Nothing else needs to change. Your friends list stays private.
- Does PlayScout work without Steam?
- Yes. The base quiz works with no account at all — answer 7 questions, get 5 picks, share or play. Steam connection adds a layer: library-aware recommendations, the untouched-games shelf, and personalized blends as you react to cards on the Hub. Without Steam, you still get the matcher; you just don’t get the "from games you own" filter.
- Will you support PlayStation, Xbox, or Game Pass?
- Planned. The data model already supports multiple platforms per user — the Hub library section shows "soon" pills for PSN, Xbox, Epic, GOG, Game Pass, and Nintendo. Steam is first because the API is the most complete. Other platforms ship as their respective ecosystems open up data access. Star the project or check back for updates.
- What about my taste — do you learn it over time?
- Yes. Once you’re signed in, every thumbs-up, thumbs-down, and skip on a Hub shelf updates a behavioral taste vector stored on your profile. After 10 reactions, the matcher starts blending that vector into quiz-only scoring — your future recommendations bend toward what you’ve actually liked, not just what you said you wanted in the quiz. The blend weight is fixed at 0.5 today.
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