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Valve Launches Steam Personal Calendar Experiment for Tailored Release Tracking

The opt-in Labs feature builds a weekday-only, eight-week schedule from players with similar playtime profiles plus wishlist activity.

Overview

  • The Personal Calendar is live as a Steam Labs test on desktop and web, updating daily with an eight-week horizon that rolls weekend releases into Monday.
  • Recommendations prioritize games tied to substantial relative playtime, using lookalike playtime profiles and wishlist signals to avoid brief demo noise.
  • The view groups titles into released in the last month, released in the last seven days, and upcoming, presenting future dates in a simple calendar layout.
  • Users can fine-tune results with tag filters, options to hide owned or wishlisted games, and adjustable game counts ranging from 10 to 500.
  • Hover previews let players watch trailers and manage wishlists without leaving the page, early press impressions are positive, and Valve is soliciting feedback with no full rollout date announced.