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An experiment by Prashant Matta
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In The Lion’s Song: Episode 1 - Silence you: click to explore, read a story, play with music

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

Your party Games like The Lion’s Song: Episode 1 - Silence

Keeps what you do. Adds something new.

  1. Life is Strange: Before the Storm

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Keeps: click to explore
    • Doesn’t keep: read a story
    • Doesn’t keep: play with music

    New here: choose how the story goes, several endings

    Why you’d like it: Like Wilma’s episodic story, this is an episodic adventure where your choices shape the story, and its description mentions a three-part tale.

    See on Steam: Life is Strange: Before the Storm (opens in a new tab)

  2. Batman - The Telltale Series

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Keeps: click to explore
    • Keeps: read a story
    • Doesn’t keep: play with music

    New here: press buttons on cue, superheroes

    Why you’d like it: Like Wilma’s episodic story, this one has you read a story where your choices matter, told across five episodes as Batman.

    See on Steam: Batman - The Telltale Series (opens in a new tab)

  3. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Keeps: click to explore
    • Doesn’t keep: read a story
    • Doesn’t keep: play with music

    New here: walk and take it in, time travel

    Why you’d like it: Another episodic adventure like Wilma’s, but here you can rewind time to affect the past, present and future.

    See on Steam: Life is Strange - Episode 1 (opens in a new tab)

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  1. Life is Strange 2

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Mature
    • Keeps: click to explore
    • Doesn’t keep: read a story
    • Doesn’t keep: play with music

    New here: choose how the story goes, a mystery

    See on Steam: Life is Strange 2 (opens in a new tab)

  2. Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Keeps: click to explore
    • Keeps: read a story
    • Doesn’t keep: play with music

    New here: solve cases, superheroes

    See on Steam: Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series (opens in a new tab)

  3. The Wolf Among Us

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Keeps: click to explore
    • Keeps: read a story
    • Doesn’t keep: play with music

    New here: solve cases, film-noir style

    See on Steam: The Wolf Among Us (opens in a new tab)

  4. Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Less played
    • Keeps: click to explore
    • Keeps: read a story
    • Doesn’t keep: play with music

    New here: solve cases, a dark fantasy world

    See on Steam: Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade (opens in a new tab)

  5. Tales from the Borderlands

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Keeps: click to explore
    • Keeps: read a story
    • Doesn’t keep: play with music

    New here: choose how the story goes, comedy

    See on Steam: Tales from the Borderlands (opens in a new tab)

  6. The Walking Dead: A New Frontier

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Keeps: click to explore
    • Keeps: read a story
    • Doesn’t keep: play with music

    New here: stay alive, zombies

    See on Steam: The Walking Dead: A New Frontier (opens in a new tab)

  7. Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Keeps: click to explore
    • Keeps: read a story
    • Doesn’t keep: play with music

    New here: read and choose, medieval times

    See on Steam: Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth (opens in a new tab)

Played one of these? See what to play after it: Life is Strange: Before the StormBatman - The Telltale SeriesLife is Strange - Episode 1Life is Strange 2Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale SeriesThe Wolf Among UsLeviathan: The Last Day of the DecadeTales from the BorderlandsThe Walking Dead: A New FrontierKen Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth

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

628 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.

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.