Steam is, in its own right, the queen of digital video game stores.. Valve has known, from its origins, to offer a great service to its users. With this I do not mean, of course, that everything is perfect on the platform. During all its years of life we have seen multiple types of errors, unwise strategies, decisions that were difficult to understand… But, at this point, we must understand that we are also talking about the dean of digital stores, and that therefore it has had to be launching to explore a market that was yet to be defined, and in which uncertainty was present at every step.
Today their figures speak for themselves, and its monthly surveys have managed to become a reference for many media. In addition, its support of Linux, through Proton, has earned the sympathy of this community, especially since Epic Games acts in the opposite direction, routinely ignoring Linux and even removing support for this operating system, after acquiring them, in games that previously did have it, as it did with Rocket League.
On the other hand, we cannot ignore your eagerness to explore the hardware marketalbeit with uneven results. For example, many of us still remember the bump that the Steam Machines caused for Valve, but closer in time we also keep in mind the enormous success that the Steam Deck has brought about, in many ways, a device that has known how to be above of expectations and that, we can even affirm that it has been the revulsion that the, until then moribund, market for portable video game consoles needed.
In the last year we have seen how the store improved, first the information and statistics about games, and a few weeks later, also the date formats and lists of upcoming releases, thus demonstrating that they are very aware of the importance of the interface of the store. Well, Valve has announced another novelty today, and it is one that personally seems to me to be a great success, and that is that steam quick search now includes tags, developers, publishers and franchisesand also is more flexible with misspelled words. In this way, its usefulness grows exponentially, something in which I am sure you will agree with me if you have ever used it.
With this enhancement to Quick Search (meaning the results that display under the search box as you type), which is now available in both the Steam client and the web interface, we can see the information organized in a very comfortable waywith the selection of several games at the top of the list and, under these, the labels/sagas/brands that are also likely to be what we are looking for.
These new elements are not shown, however, on the search results page (the one that shows up when we press Enter or click the magnifying glass icon), but it would make a lot of sense for Valve to update that page as well by adding these elements. This, however, is just a suggestion, inspired by the vast improvement this change brings to Quick Search.
