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An experiment by Prashant Matta
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In OPUS: The Day We Found Earth you: read a story, solve puzzles, click to explore

1,673 of 20,285 games share what you do. These 10 fit best.

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Keeps what you do. Adds something new.

  1. J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars

    • Puzzle
    • Solo
    • Doesn’t keep: read a story
    • Keeps: solve puzzles
    • Keeps: click to explore

    New here: not in its tags yet

    Why you’d like it: Like Emeth’s search, Rachel’s mission has her exploring space with robot companions, solving puzzles, though here an AI probe helps her.

    See on Steam: J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars (opens in a new tab)

  2. The Crown of Leaves

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Keeps: read a story
    • Keeps: solve puzzles
    • Keeps: click to explore

    New here: a fantasy world, choices that matter

    Why you’d like it: You still read a story and solve puzzles with point-and-click exploration, but Roui’s tale adds a fantasy homeland and choices that matter.

    See on Steam: The Crown of Leaves (opens in a new tab)

  3. Whispering Willows

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Doesn’t keep: read a story
    • Keeps: solve puzzles
    • Keeps: click to explore

    New here: horror, the supernatural

    Why you’d like it: Puzzle-solving and exploration continue as Elena searches a mansion for her missing father, now with ghosts and a horror edge.

    See on Steam: Whispering Willows (opens in a new tab)

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  1. Deliver Us The Moon

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Short
    • Doesn’t keep: read a story
    • Keeps: solve puzzles
    • Doesn’t keep: click to explore

    New here: fly a spaceship, a short length

    See on Steam: Deliver Us The Moon (opens in a new tab)

  2. Beacon Pines

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Keeps: read a story
    • Doesn’t keep: solve puzzles
    • Keeps: click to explore

    New here: level up a character, a cozy feel

    See on Steam: Beacon Pines (opens in a new tab)

  3. The Chrono Jotter

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Keeps: read a story
    • Keeps: solve puzzles
    • Doesn’t keep: click to explore

    New here: solve cases, LGBTQ+ characters

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

  4. N.E.R.O.: Nothing Ever Remains Obscure

    • Puzzle
    • Solo
    • Mixed reviews
    • Keeps: read a story
    • Keeps: solve puzzles
    • Doesn’t keep: click to explore

    New here: walk and take it in

    See on Steam: N.E.R.O.: Nothing Ever Remains Obscure (opens in a new tab)

  5. WILL: A Wonderful World / WILL：美好世界

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Keeps: read a story
    • Keeps: solve puzzles
    • Doesn’t keep: click to explore

    New here: play with words, choices that matter

    See on Steam: WILL: A Wonderful World / WILL：美好世界 (opens in a new tab)

  6. Neo Cab

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Keeps: read a story
    • Doesn’t keep: solve puzzles
    • Keeps: click to explore

    New here: a cyberpunk future, choices that matter

    See on Steam: Neo Cab (opens in a new tab)

  7. Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Keeps: read a story
    • Keeps: solve puzzles
    • Keeps: click to explore

    New here: solve cases, choices that matter

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

Played one of these? See what to play after it: J.U.L.I.A.: Among the StarsThe Crown of LeavesWhispering WillowsDeliver Us The MoonBeacon PinesThe Chrono JotterWILL: A Wonderful World / WILL：美好世界Neo CabLeviathan: The Last Day of the Decade

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

1,673 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.

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