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An experiment by Prashant Matta
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In Between Me and The Night you: click to explore, solve puzzles

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

1,421 of 20,285 games share what you do. These 10 fit best after an AI check.

Your party Games like Between Me and The Night

Keeps what you do. Adds something new.

  1. Lumino City

    • Puzzle
    • Solo
    • Keeps: click to explore
    • Keeps: solve puzzles

    New here: jokes, a big story

    Why you’d like it: Clicking around to solve puzzles carries over, but here you fit together mechanisms in a city built from paper and card.

    See on Steam: Lumino City (opens in a new tab)

  2. The Inner World

    • Puzzle
    • Solo
    • Keeps: click to explore
    • Keeps: solve puzzles

    New here: a big story, comedy

    Why you’d like it: You still click through scenes and solve puzzles, but a clueless court musician named Robert hunts for the missing wind.

    See on Steam: The Inner World (opens in a new tab)

  3. The Next BIG Thing

    • Puzzle
    • Solo
    • Keeps: click to explore
    • Keeps: solve puzzles

    New here: escape locked rooms, a 2D look

    Why you’d like it: Solving puzzles by clicking carries over, but here the setting is a comic Hollywood where movie monsters are forced into roles.

    See on Steam: The Next BIG Thing (opens in a new tab)

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  1. The Night of the Rabbit

    • Puzzle
    • Solo
    • Keeps: click to explore
    • Keeps: solve puzzles

    New here: escape locked rooms, a fantasy world

    See on Steam: The Night of the Rabbit (opens in a new tab)

  2. The Curse of Monkey Island

    • Puzzle
    • Solo
    • Keeps: click to explore
    • Keeps: solve puzzles

    New here: pirates, comedy

    See on Steam: The Curse of Monkey Island (opens in a new tab)

  3. Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack: Chapter 4 - The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood

    • Role-playing
    • Solo
    • Less played
    • Keeps: click to explore
    • Keeps: solve puzzles

    New here: level up a character

    See on Steam: Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack: Chapter 4 - The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood (opens in a new tab)

  4. Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™

    • Puzzle
    • Solo
    • Keeps: click to explore
    • Keeps: solve puzzles

    New here: a big story, jokes

    See on Steam: Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™ (opens in a new tab)

  5. A New Beginning - Final Cut

    • Puzzle
    • Solo
    • Keeps: click to explore
    • Keeps: solve puzzles

    New here: escape locked rooms, science fiction

    See on Steam: A New Beginning - Final Cut (opens in a new tab)

  6. Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack: Chapter 5 - Rise of the Pirate God

    • Role-playing
    • Solo
    • Less played
    • Keeps: click to explore
    • Keeps: solve puzzles

    New here: level up a character, pirates

    See on Steam: Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack: Chapter 5 - Rise of the Pirate God (opens in a new tab)

  7. Shadowgate

    • Puzzle
    • Solo
    • Keeps: click to explore
    • Keeps: solve puzzles

    New here: a dark fantasy world, a strong mood

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

Played one of these? See what to play after it: Lumino CityThe Inner WorldThe Next BIG ThingThe Night of the RabbitThe Curse of Monkey IslandIndiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™A New Beginning - Final CutShadowgate

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

1,421 of 20,285 games share what you do. These 10 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.

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.