After testing in a small beta for the past couple of weeks, we’re releasing the latest update to the Steam Curators system today, which includes a bunch of improvements for players, curators, and game developers.

In short: We’ve made it easier to find and follow Steam Curators that you know and trust, we’ve provided Curators with more ways to improve your Steam shopping experience, and we’ve built better tools for developers to connect with the right Steam Curators. You can see a summary of the new features highlighted on the Steam Curator Update Announcement page. Read on for a more detailed look at why we think Steam Curators are important and why you’ll now find it even more beneficial to follow a Steam Curator or two.

The goal of the Steam Curator system is to give you options for the individuals and organizations that can curate your Steam shopping experience. There are already people you probably look to for advice on which games are worth your time and money, such as YouTubers, journalists, streamers, or online communities. We’ve built Steam Curators to be a place where those voices and tastes can directly improve your shopping experience by influencing which games you’ll see and what other information about games you can find. For example, you may appreciate the in-depth reviews provided by PC Gamer or the video reviews recorded by Extra Credits. You may like RPG Watch’s focus on selecting just well-made role-playing games or you may appreciate Framerate Police’s advice as to which games are locked to 30fps and how to unlock them. Or, like us, you might enjoy the humorous-yet-short reviews by Critiquing Doge. There are Steam Curators that cover just about every kind of game imaginable and in every language possible on Steam.

Whatever your tastes, and whatever language you speak, you can probably find a few great Steam Curators to curate your Steam shopping experience.

By following a few Curators on Steam, you’ll not only start to see their recommendations appear prominently when browsing the Steam Store (such as at the top of your home page and at the top of tag and genre pages), but you can also explore each of their customized spaces within Steam and see all the titles they have reviewed. For example, we’ve built some new tools for Curators to create lists of games and then pick which lists to feature on their page. Some Steam Curators produce video reviews of the games they play, and now you’ll start seeing those videos displayed right within Steam.

In addition to a bunch of improvements for players that follow a few Curators, we’ve been hard at work making the system work better for Steam Curators themselves as well as game developers looking to connect with Curators. We’ve given Curators more ways to customize their page on Steam and more information about how players are impacted by their reviews. We’ve also introduced a whole new system called Curator Connect that provides game developers with a way of sending review copies of their game directly to Curators within Steam.

Check out the Steam Curator Update Announcement page to learn more about today’s update. These updates are available now, and we’ll be continuing work on Steam Curators with your feedback and input.

As always, if you have any feedback or suggestions, please let us know.

-The Steam Team