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In Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection Vol. 2 you: fight and level up, build a deck

This game has fewer Steam reviews, so AI read each suggestion and took off the clear misses. It can still be wrong.

1,564 of 20,285 games share what you do. These 9 fit best after an AI check.

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4 hidden: Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection Vol. 1, Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection and 2 more

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Keeps what you do. Adds something new.

  1. STAR OCEAN THE SECOND STORY R

    • Role-playing
    • Solo
    • Keeps: fight and level up
    • Doesn’t keep: build a deck

    New here: jump through side-on levels, a big story

    Why you’d like it: Star Ocean keeps the fighting and leveling up, but swaps grid battles for real-time combat and a choice between Claude or Rena.

    See on Steam: STAR OCEAN THE SECOND STORY R (opens in a new tab)

  2. Tales of Graces f Remastered

    • Role-playing
    • Solo
    • Keeps: fight and level up
    • Doesn’t keep: build a deck

    New here: lead a party, a fantasy world

    Why you’d like it: Tales of Graces f keeps the fighting and leveling up, but follows Asbel, Richard and Sophie through an action RPG adventure.

    See on Steam: Tales of Graces f Remastered (opens in a new tab)

  3. .hack//G.U. Last Recode

    • Role-playing
    • Solo
    • Keeps: fight and level up
    • Doesn’t keep: build a deck

    New here: cut through crowds, a big story

    Why you’d like it: If you liked fighting and leveling up, .hack//G.U. Last Recode follows Haseo hunting Tri-Edge across four volumes.

    See on Steam: .hack//G.U. Last Recode (opens in a new tab)

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  1. Tales of Eternia Remastered

    • Role-playing
    • Solo
    • Keeps: fight and level up
    • Doesn’t keep: build a deck

    New here: a fantasy world, an emotional story

    See on Steam: Tales of Eternia Remastered (opens in a new tab)

  2. CrossCode

    • Role-playing
    • Solo
    • Keeps: fight and level up
    • Doesn’t keep: build a deck

    New here: solve puzzles, a female lead

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

  3. M.E.A.T. RPG

    • Role-playing
    • Solo
    • Keeps: fight and level up
    • Doesn’t keep: build a deck

    New here: crawl through dungeons, exploring

    See on Steam: M.E.A.T. RPG (opens in a new tab)

  4. LunarLux

    • Role-playing
    • Solo
    • Keeps: fight and level up
    • Doesn’t keep: build a deck

    New here: fight in turns, a female lead

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

  5. Ys X: Proud Nordics

    • Role-playing
    • Solo
    • Mixed reviews
    • Keeps: fight and level up
    • Doesn’t keep: build a deck

    New here: a fantasy world, pirates

    See on Steam: Ys X: Proud Nordics (opens in a new tab)

  6. Ys IX -Monstrum NOX-

    • Role-playing
    • Solo
    • Keeps: fight and level up
    • Doesn’t keep: build a deck

    New here: a big story, a dark tone

    See on Steam: Ys IX -Monstrum NOX- (opens in a new tab)

Played one of these? See what to play after it: STAR OCEAN THE SECOND STORY RTales of Graces f Remastered.hack//G.U. Last RecodeCrossCodeYs IX -Monstrum NOX-

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

1,564 of 20,285 games share what you do. These 9 fit best after an AI check.

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.

To ask about any of this, write to privacy@pmatta.design.