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An experiment by Prashant Matta
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In Cobalt you: jump between platforms, shoot

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

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

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  1. Move or Die

    • Platformer
    • Couch co-op
    • Keeps: jump between platforms
    • Doesn’t keep: shoot

    New here: play arcade-style, internet jokes

    Why you’d like it: Move or Die keeps the platform jumping and local or online multiplayer, but the rules change every 20 seconds.

    See on Steam: Move or Die (opens in a new tab)

  2. Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken

    • Platformer
    • Co-op
    • Keeps: jump between platforms
    • Keeps: shoot

    New here: solve puzzles, comedy

    Why you’d like it: Rocketbirds also mixes platform jumping with shooting, adding puzzles and a co-op campaign with Budgie commandos.

    See on Steam: Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken (opens in a new tab)

  3. Duck Game

    • Platformer
    • Solo or multiplayer
    • Keeps: jump between platforms
    • Keeps: shoot

    New here: comedy, internet jokes

    Why you’d like it: Duck Game shares Cobalt’s local and online multiplayer and level editor, but supports up to eight players and a wide weapon mix.

    See on Steam: Duck Game (opens in a new tab)

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  1. BattleBlock Theater®

    • Platformer
    • Couch co-op
    • Keeps: jump between platforms
    • Doesn’t keep: shoot

    New here: jump through side-on levels, comedy

    See on Steam: BattleBlock Theater® (opens in a new tab)

  2. Bleed

    • Platformer
    • Couch co-op
    • Short
    • Keeps: jump between platforms
    • Keeps: shoot

    New here: play arcade-style, a female lead

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

  3. Hive Jump

    • Platformer
    • Couch co-op
    • Mixed reviews
    • Keeps: jump between platforms
    • Keeps: shoot

    New here: play arcade-style, starting over each run

    See on Steam: Hive Jump (opens in a new tab)

  4. Superfighters Deluxe

    • Platformer
    • Couch co-op
    • Keeps: jump between platforms
    • Keeps: shoot

    New here: punch through crowds, violence

    See on Steam: Superfighters Deluxe (opens in a new tab)

  5. The Expendabros

    • Shooter
    • Solo or multiplayer
    • Free to play
    • Keeps: jump between platforms
    • Keeps: shoot

    New here: comedy, an open world

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

  6. JJBoom

    • Strategy
    • Solo or multiplayer
    • Early access
    • Keeps: jump between platforms
    • Doesn’t keep: shoot

    New here: plan ahead

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

  7. Orbital Gear

    • Action
    • Solo or multiplayer
    • Free to play
    • Keeps: jump between platforms
    • Keeps: shoot

    New here: pilot giant robots, space

    See on Steam: Orbital Gear (opens in a new tab)

Played one of these? See what to play after it: Move or DieRocketbirds: Hardboiled ChickenDuck GameBattleBlock Theater®BleedSuperfighters DeluxeThe ExpendabrosOrbital Gear

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

518 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.

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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