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Show HN: Explore 2200+ games with Zero reviews on Steam (gameswithnoreviews.com)
6 points by AmbroseBierce 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
To get all this data first I tried using Google's Custom Search JSON API but it was too expensive that way, later I found a Kaggle dataset that has info about 110K games -including number of positive and negative reviews- so I used that instead. That amount should be almost half all the games Steam has, (according to an article on Backlinko, Steam's US library "contains 239,558 titles across all categories -including DLC, soundtracks, mods, etc.-"). SteamDB estimates that there must be around ~118,000 full games on Steam so far.

In the process of scrapping I discovered that a few hundred of the games that used to have zero reviews don't exist anymore (or at least, not on Steam), I also discovered there are a handful of companies generating dozens of those hidden-objects games using generative AI for their images, a bit shady if you ask me. I also discovered 24 that are selling for $50 or more, I created a URL just for that in case you are curious: https://www.gameswithnoreviews.com/?show_expensive_games_onl...

To confirm that the reviews count is still zero (since the data was scraped) and to fetch the trailer videos' URLs among other info I did scrape the Steam store page of each game (yeah I'm hotlinking the videos but I don't think Akamai/Steam minds too much). All NSFW games have been pruned.

Be aware you can filter by tag and by price, also be aware Steam allows you to ask for a refund as long as you have less than 2 hours playing it (but don't ask for refund if you had fun or completed the game, that's not nice)

Any feedback or questions I am more than happy to answer.



This doesn't appear to be working. The list is empty.


Try scrolling down. From here when I open it in an incognito window (Chrome) it works fine, I just tried on Firefox too (which I never use) and its working fine there too, can you tell me what browser are you using? What do you see in the console? Maybe is due some extension that you are using?


Its a problem in Safari:

  Cannot load script https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/hls.js@1. Failed integrity metadata check. 
  Content length: 541267, Expected content length: -1, 
  Expected metadata: sha256-bvkMZs/n+vJkxBhyXuvSTSX/mCVfwIkZ2dWpy2IdpPA=
Looks like its blowing up on main.js:106

  ...
  if (isSafariOrIphone && Hls.isSupported()) {
  ...


Ha, I made the fix but now Github is failing and I can't push the changes! Microsoft pls! Well I manually implemented a simpler fix while they git their s*** together, so try again and tell me if it worked.




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