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An experiment by Prashant Matta
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In God of War you: level up a character, cut through crowds

1,441 of 20,285 games share what you do. These 10 fit best.

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1 hidden: God of War Ragnarök

Your party Games like God of War

Keeps what you do. Adds something new.

  1. Avowed

    • Role-playing
    • Solo
    • Less played
    • Keeps: level up a character
    • Keeps: fight

    New here: magic, LGBTQ+ characters

    Why you’d like it: Avowed lets you keep leveling a character and fighting, but from a first-person view with magic alongside steel.

    See on Steam: Avowed (opens in a new tab)

  2. Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR’S CUT

    • Stealth
    • Co-op
    • Keeps: level up a character
    • Keeps: fight

    New here: sneak, ninjas

    Why you’d like it: Ghost of Tsushima is an open-world action adventure where you play a samurai, Jin Sakai, as God of War lets you fight.

    See on Steam: Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR’S CUT (opens in a new tab)

  3. Black Myth: Wukong

    • Role-playing
    • Solo
    • Keeps: level up a character
    • Keeps: cut through crowds

    New here: play with music, a dark fantasy world

    Why you’d like it: Black Myth: Wukong, like God of War, draws its story from mythology, here Chinese rather than Norse.

    See on Steam: Black Myth: Wukong (opens in a new tab)

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  1. Immortals Fenyx Rising

    • Role-playing
    • Solo
    • Less played
    • Keeps: level up a character
    • Keeps: fight

    New here: solve puzzles, a character you design

    See on Steam: Immortals Fenyx Rising (opens in a new tab)

  2. Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning

    • Role-playing
    • Solo
    • Less played
    • Keeps: level up a character
    • Keeps: cut through crowds

    New here: fight one on one, a character you design

    See on Steam: Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning (opens in a new tab)

  3. Hell is Us

    • Action
    • Solo
    • Less played
    • Keeps: level up a character
    • Keeps: fight

    New here: solve puzzles, a dark fantasy world

    See on Steam: Hell is Us (opens in a new tab)

  4. Rise of the Ronin

    • Role-playing
    • Co-op
    • Mixed reviews
    • Keeps: level up a character
    • Keeps: cut through crowds

    New here: sword fight, real history

    See on Steam: Rise of the Ronin (opens in a new tab)

  5. Loki

    • Role-playing
    • Solo or multiplayer
    • Mixed reviews
    • Keeps: level up a character
    • Keeps: cut through crowds

    New here: not in its tags yet

    See on Steam: Loki (opens in a new tab)

  6. Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Keeps: level up a character
    • Keeps: fight

    New here: run and climb, superheroes

    See on Steam: Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (opens in a new tab)

  7. The Outer Worlds 2

    • Role-playing
    • Solo
    • Less played
    • Keeps: level up a character
    • Keeps: fight

    New here: make money, science fiction

    See on Steam: The Outer Worlds 2 (opens in a new tab)

Played one of these? See what to play after it: AvowedGhost of Tsushima DIRECTOR’S CUTBlack Myth: WukongImmortals Fenyx RisingKingdoms of Amalur: Re-ReckoningHell is UsRise of the RoninMarvel’s Spider-Man: Miles MoralesThe Outer Worlds 2

AI wrote the “Why you’d like it” lines, and a second AI pass checked them against each game’s store page. They can be wrong, so check the store page before you buy.

How this list was made

1,441 of 20,285 games share what you do. These 10 fit best.

What gets in

A game is what you do in it, so a pick has to share what players say you do most. If fewer than ten games earn a place, the list stays short.

Games from the same series start hidden, and the next best fits take their places. Choose Yes to show them in their places on the list.

Lists use the tags Steam players vote on, plus each game’s Steam store page.

Less played means far fewer Steam reviews than the game you finished. Mixed reviews means 60 to 69% of its Steam reviews are positive.

What only changes the order

A shared setting, look or popularity can move a game up or down, but it can’t put a game on the list by itself. Being set in space, for example, isn’t enough: a pick has to keep something you do.

What isn’t known

No players have tested this. Newer and smaller games have less data.

Privacy

To learn whether this works, the page records how it’s used. This is all of it.

What’s recorded

Searches

The text you type is never sent to Next Up. If it matches a game Next Up knows but has no list for, only that game’s number is recorded. If it matches nothing, only the fact that it matched nothing is recorded, with a rough length such as 4 to 6 characters.

Suggestions show a small image of each game, loaded straight from Steam’s image servers. So while you type, Steam sees which games’ images your browser asks for, though not the text itself.

The random ID

Your browser keeps a random ID for up to 6 months after your last visit, so repeat visits can be counted. It’s created when the first batch of this record goes out, which is your first action or the first time you leave or switch away from the page, whichever comes first. It’s stored in this browser, not in a cookie.

The ID is kept like this only in the US, Canada outside Quebec, Australia and New Zealand. Everywhere else, nothing is stored for it: the ID lasts only until you close or reload the tab, so a return visit counts as a new one. That’s decided from the location Cloudflare reports for your connection, so a VPN can change it. If it reports no country, or Canada with no region, nothing is stored either.

From your connection

The record keeps your country and region, device type, operating system and browser family, language, and the kind of site you came from. Your IP address, city and network aren’t stored, and this recording uses no cookies. Cloudflare may set a security cookie of its own.

Who else sees a visit

Cloudflare hosts the page and this data, and handles your connection like any web host. Store links and Steam searches go to Steam only if you click them, and Steam then sees that visit.

Game art loads straight from Steam’s image servers (shared.akamai.steamstatic.com and shared.fastly.steamstatic.com): on the first screen’s game tiles as soon as it opens, in search suggestions as you type, and on each list. So your browser contacts Steam for those images, and Steam sees that connection and which games’ images were asked for.

Google Analytics is blocked on this page by its security policy, but the rest of pmatta.design uses it.

AI-written lines

The “Why you’d like it” lines on cards were written by AI ahead of time and checked by a second AI pass. No AI runs while you browse.

How long it’s kept

Up to 13 months.

Turn counting off

Turning it off stops this browser sending anything and removes the ID. The choice is kept in this browser, so clearing site data turns counting back on, and so can a browser that clears such data by itself, as Safari can after 7 days without a visit. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, counting is already off, and the ID is removed. What was sent before you turned it off is kept for up to 13 months, like the rest.

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