About New Game+

How picks are made

Every game is described by its genres, themes, keywords, modes and Steam’s player tags. Games that share the rare, telling ones are close; games that only share “action” aren’t. Those similarities are worked out ahead of time, so results come back instantly. With several picks, a game scores for each one it’s close to, and every pick gets at least one slot near the top, so Stardew Valley and DOOM don’t blend into mush. There’s no AI model involved at request time.

Data sources

• IGDB
  Game catalog, descriptions, covers, genres, themes, similar games and time to beat. Game data from IGDB.com.
• IsThereAnyDeal
  Current PC prices across stores and all-time lows. Store links go through IsThereAnyDeal unchanged; for price history, follow the IsThereAnyDeal link on any game.
• OpenCritic
  Top Critic Average, shown as “OpenCritic” and linked to the game’s OpenCritic page.
• Metacritic
  Metascores, as published on Steam store pages, shown as “Metacritic” and linked to Metacritic. Metacritic is a trademark of its owner.
• Steam
  Player review scores, Steam Deck compatibility, player tags, covers, and your library when you import it. Powered by Steam; not affiliated with Valve.
• Xbox Game Pass
  Which games are in each Game Pass plan, from Microsoft’s public catalog (checked Oct 7, 2026).
• PlayStation Plus
  Which games are in the PS Plus Game Catalog, Classics and this month’s games, from the lists on PlayStation’s PS Plus games page (checked Oct 7, 2026). PlayStation is a trademark of Sony Interactive Entertainment.
• App Store
  iPhone and iPad prices, star ratings and Apple Arcade versions, from Apple’s public iTunes Search API, linked to each game’s App Store page. Android games link to Google Play, whose prices aren’t published for apps like this one. App Store and Apple Arcade are trademarks of Apple Inc.; Google Play is a trademark of Google LLC.

Each score is labelled with where it came from; one is never passed off as another. When a source has nothing for a game, that field is left out rather than guessed. New Game+ is not affiliated with any of these services.

Privacy

• No accounts and no analytics. Your picks live in the page URL, so you can share them.
• “Played it”, “Not for me”, your Game Pass, PS Plus and Apple Arcade plans and an imported Steam library are kept in your browser’s local storage. Clearing site data removes them.
• Steam import happens only when you ask for it. We fetch your public game list from Steam, send it back to your browser and don’t store it. Your profile and “Game details” must be public for Steam to share it.
• To limit abuse, requests are counted per salted hash of your IP address, mostly in memory and never longer than about a day. The address itself isn’t stored.

The details are on the privacy page.