wasdland
The Best of Steam. Without the Noise.
Deciding what to play with a friend often takes longer than the actual gaming session.
To fix this, I just built another tool: Steam Play Together
It's a quick 1v1 comparison tool: paste two Steam profile URLs, and it immediately cross-references both libraries and wishlists.
What it does:
Instant Match: Shows multiplayer games you both already own so you can launch something right away.
Wishlist Overlap: Shows games you both want, or games one owns and the other has wishlisted.
Deals Tracker: Highlights when shared games or wishlist items are currently on sale.
Zero Setup: No sign-ups, no logging in with Steam, no permissions needed.
Once you generate the comparison, just bookmark the URL. Next time you want to play, you can open that link directly without pasting your profiles again. It will automatically fetch your latest games and wishlists.
Give it a try next time you're planning a session and let me know if you run into any bugs or have ideas for features!
Finding actual hidden gems on Steam has become almost impossible lately. The store is so flooded that unless a game is already viral, it just gets buried under thousands of new releases. So, I built a dedicated indie discovery tool right into the project.
When you open the Best Indie Games on Steam page with the indie filter applied, you can narrow your search even further using sub-filters for specific tags, play styles, score or recent releases to pinpoint exactly what you're in the mood for.
Set up your favorite filter combination and bookmark the page URL in your browser. It stays automatically updated with new releases, making it way more efficient than constantly checking a random list of links from Reddit!
Pro tip: If you're a nerd like me, you can just subscribe to the RSS feed for the indie genre. That way, you only need to jump back onto the site when your RSS reader alerts you that something new is worth checking out.
My Steam wishlist just kept growing over the years, as I imagine most of yours probably have too. Steam is fine for its own sales but trying to track down the best prices across third-party stores and key sellers for all those games was driving me crazy. So, I figured I'd just build a solution into the project.
No login or registration needed. (I hate them when they're pointless).
You just need a public Steam profile and wishlist.
Just drop your profile URL, and it imports your list while running it through external deal trackers and some basic quality filters (like a 6/10 minimum rating and decent review counts). From there, you can sort everything by price, discount, popularity, release date, or play around with the other filters. It's basically the usual wasdland setup, but tailored to your own backlog.
Pro tip: Once your list is loaded, you can share your page URL if you ever want to show your friends what you're tracking. Handy if someone is looking to grab you a gift without paying full Steam price.
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“‘Best of Steam without the noise’ is clean. Curious — is the value more in discovery or filtering what users already know?”
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Starting with games you already know is an easy way to find similar ones. In either case, having a site with curated lists of community-approved games is a great starting point, saving you from wasting time manually filtering through dozens of "bad games" every time you open Steam looking for something new to play.
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Yeah that curation layer is the real value — Steam discovery is still pretty broken.
If you can make “good games faster” the core promise, that’s something people come back for.
Are you planning to lean more into community signals or your own filtering?
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