4/25/2026

Advanced Game Search

This update adds a dedicated Advanced Search page for browsing analyzed Steam games by the signals VaporLens extracts from player reviews.

Instead of starting from a title, you can now start from the kind of game you actually want to find:

  • Find short games with strong player sentiment.
  • Look for titles players describe as worth a specific price.
  • Filter for Steam Deck or Linux-friendly games.
  • Avoid games with heavy MTX complaints.
  • Search for specific themes or complaints inside the generated summaries.
  • Combine categories, emotions, archetypes, playtime, price, sentiment, and feature scores into one query.

The regular games list is still there for quick browsing, but the new Advanced Search page is built for more specific questions: cheap co-op games, short games with strong sentiment, Linux-friendly titles, games with low MTX pressure, or anything else that needs more than a title search.

For anyone interested in the implementation side, I also wrote a deeper Patreon post about how the new search works behind the scenes.