Polygon’s Wishlister: Your Ultimate Tool for Discovering New Games

Pose this question to any game developer or passionate gamer regarding the video game industry’s steepest hurdles, and one term invariably arises: “discoverability.” With a staggering volume of titles flooding the market daily, standing out and ensuring your creation gets noticed has reached unprecedented levels of difficulty.

This challenge is particularly acute on Steam, a platform that inches closer to universal ubiquity with each passing year. Statistics provided by SteamDB indicate that an average of 70 fresh titles debut on Steam daily. Yet, the dilemma extends beyond new releases getting lost in the noise on launch day; tracking down promising upcoming releases proves equally formidable.

Here at Polygon, we possess a distinct advantage in navigating this obstacle. Encountering innovative projects daily allows us to curate previews for our readership, highlighting compelling works that instantly capture our attention. Even so, it felt as though we could do more to help—which led us to create Wishlister.

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Wishlister serves as our brand-new weekly newsletter focused entirely on cataloging upcoming PC games that you can instantly add to your Steam wishlist. Every week, we compile six highly promising titles and deliver them straight to your inbox. There are no financial commitments or obligations required—simply curate your future favorites for later.

What sorts of experiences will you unearth through Wishlister? There is no single answer, and that is precisely the point. We designed this project to celebrate the incredible variety inherent in modern video games. Rather than merely recycling lists of massive open-world RPGs you are already familiar with, we present a diverse assortment of genre-defying gems that rarely resemble one another.

Our subscribers have already experienced this curation firsthand since Wishlister debuted in September. Have you encountered Acornia: Mirror World, the squirrel-centric action game, bakery simulator, and deckbuilder crafted by Tinykin developer Spalashteam? What about Cyberlich and the Death Cult of Labor, a corporate satire steeped in Doom-inspired aesthetics? Or perhaps Vivarium, a breathtaking cozy title that mirrors the distinct visual charm of a Studio Ghibli film? There is plenty more where those came from, arriving in your inbox weekly alongside direct pathways to each game’s Steam page. Simply navigate to the storefront, click the “Add to your wishlist” button, and you are all set!

Wishlisting a game on Steam functions much like bookmarking a vital resource in your browser, so allow us to help you maintain an organized backlog filled with exceptional titles. Subscribe to Wishlister today to begin receiving your weekly digest of upcoming masterpieces that might just become your next obsession.

Source: Polygon