With so many amazing games on Steam, players are wishlisting more and more titles. Existing options like ranking and filtering are great, but players have asked for even more ways to manage their Steam wishlists. Today we’re adding categorization as well as improved search and sharing to the wishlist. Read the full post below for the details, then try out all the new tools on your own wishlist.
First and foremost is the ability to create and assign custom categories to games on your wishlist. You might want to create a custom category for games you saw featured in a cool event, games best played with a controller, or even games you have in mind for someone else.
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Adding custom categories is quick and easy…
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Filter to a category by simply clicking on the category name at the top of your wishlist or next to the My Categories area of each game
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Quickly add to your frequent categories from the “On Wishlist” dropdown on store pages
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Customize wishlist notifications to only be sent for certain categories
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We’ve improved the search experience on the wishlist page and enabled autocomplete for faster results
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We now highlight when a game on your wishlist has a demo available. You can also be notified when a demo is released for a game in your wishlist.
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Microtrailers are now shown when hovering each games capsule image
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Navigating to/from your wishlist in a browser, mobile, Steam Client, or Steam OS does a better job of bringing you back to what you were looking at
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Plus we’ve made some tweaks to the wishlist page to improve contrast and legibility
You can already share a link to your wishlist, now you can share a link to a specific category on your wishlist, or even a filtered view of your wishlist.
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Clicking on the share button at the top of your wishlist gives you a unique URL to share with friends and family. People with the link can view the shared list even if your wishlist is set to private. Links can be revoked at any time.
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This sharing link will only show the games in the your current filtered view. For example: you might want to share ‘My Birthday List’ with your family. From that shared link, your family can gift games directly to you, even if they don’t have a Steam account…
As we hinted at above, we suspect one common new category for wishlists will be games you want to buy for a friend or family member. With that in mind, we paired this wishlist change with a big update to gift purchasing on Steam. Check out all the gift improvements here!
