The Curator system on Steam is a tool that helps players find games based on their preferences, and now Valve has announced some changes coming to this system.
Although games recommended by Curators already appear in the featured section of Steam and their own section, they will now appear when browsing by either genre or tag as part of the update. Also, for Curators like YouTubers and streamers, their videos are now part of the pages of games they recommend as well.
If you're not sure which Curator is best for you, there's also a Recommended Curators list, but if you're a Curator yourself you can create your own lists within genres. You can even customise your page as a Curator now too, including backgrounds.
Making sure Curators connect with not only their followers but also developers is also important, as they can now see how they have impacted the purchases of their followers. In regards to the developer side of things though, Curator Connect is a new system where developers can select Curators they want to show games too, sending them a code to do so, with information like audience size and impact on followers available for them to see. Curators can then accept or decline these codes, and developers can do this for multiple Curators at once.
This should also help avoid codes going to scammers who are begging for keys, and all of these changes are being tested right now in closed beta, with feedback being gathered before rolling them out to a wider reach.
Valve also adds that: "We're hard at work on significant improvements to the core recommendation engine which algorithmically suggests games for all Steam users. We're anxious to talk in depth about that technology too, and will do so in a future blog post."
Are you a fan of the Curator system on Steam? Is it better now?