- Valve has introduced a modern personal calendar for Steam users as part of a Steam Labs experiment
- It allows users to easily browse recently released and upcoming games based on gaming activity and wishlists
- This is another update that may prove useful for the quality of life of the Steam client
Valve is making life easier for Steam customers and SteamOS users with quality-of-life updates across the board, and the latest version may prove to be the most beneficial for gamers yet.
Announced on its community page that Valve has launched a modern feature “Personal calendar‘, which allows players to easily browse both recently released and upcoming games, including wishlisted titles and recommended games based on play time.
It also includes weekly and monthly views (in the case of the latest releases), and the recommendations are “trained” daily to keep them up to date and well matched to the user’s activity.
This should significantly aid save users time by keeping them updated when wishlist titles are released or enter Early Access, and eliminating the need to manually search for modern titles since everything is ready and presented in the modern calendar. This is another update from Valve that many, including myself, may not have known we wanted but probably needed.
With customization elements, users can adjust the number of games displayed (up to 500), filter by tags for specific game genres, hide games they own, and only display titles from their wishlist.
This is a very intuitive feature that Valve intends to develop within its functionality using feedback Steam Labs experiments, which appears to be one of two ways to access the calendar – but it won’t be surprising to see this popup appear in game libraries or in the Steam navigation bar if it becomes a full feature.
Based on what I’ve seen on my calendar, it’s clear to me that Valve’s first version of this game performs very well considering the huge number of roguelites and action games in my library. There are plenty of titles coming in overdue 2025 and early 2026, so it’s sheltered to say that Valve has chosen the perfect time to roll out this update to users.
This comes as Microsoft’s “full screen” mode is available via the ROG Xbox Ally X portable gaming PC, which uses the Xbox app as both a storefront and launcher; Valve’s updates and experiments, put the onus on Microsoft and Xbox (and other PC game launchers) to work, and introduce more features that will challenge the Steam launcher.
As it stands, Valve continues to prove why its store is the most popular among PC gamers, and long may it continue to benefit gamers.
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