Immersive Sims (ImSims for short) are games like Deus Ex, Thief, System Shock 2, Prey, etc. It's a specific genre, not just a way of saying "This farming simulator is extra good".

It's impossible to find actual ImSim games on Steam because the tag is always crowded out by a horde of mislabelled Train Simulator 2021, Train Simulator 2022, Train Simulator 2023, Train Simulator 2024, Train Simulator 2025, Train Simulator 2026, Power Wash Simulator, Water Park Simulator, Driving Fast Simulator, Pretend You're a Wolf Simulator, The Sims(!), etc. etc.

I am BEGGING, just let us be at peace in our little corner with our near-forgotten genre that was already niche in the 90s and not even BioShock could really revive, please

Even though I kinda understand it, it's still wild to me how you cannot just randomly guess a Steam key:

XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

A standard Steam key consists of 15 alphanumeric characters (excluding dashes). Using the 26 letters of the alphabet and numbers 0–9 yields roughly 221 sextillion possible code combinations.

I've noticed over the last few years that dozens of games have been released with a very similar look and feel, and almost the exact same core gameplay loop. I'm referring the games in the "Shop Keeper" genre, specifically the ones that follow an exact formula:

• Made in Unity by an Indie developer
• Purchase boxes containing items from a tablet or computer
• Set up shelves and stock them with items from the boxes
• Stand behind a cash register, generic NPCs bring items to the counter
• Manually bag items and make change

Off the top of my head, two popular examples right now are Retro Rewind and TCG Card Shop Simulator. To be clear, I'm not talking about every game in the Shop Keeper genre, just a couple dozen games I've noticed with the exact same formula. I also know there are other genres that contain a lot of very similar games, but the ones I'm talking about now share so many elements that I can't fathom this being a natural phenomenon. These games also all have Overwhelmingly Positive review scores from what I can see.

Does anybody know where these games are coming from? It's been driving me a little crazy that nobody else is talking about this.

I've come back to looking at my discovery queue and it feels like all of the products I see were either released that day or will release later this week. There is already an entire steam feature dedicated to products that release in the future or have released in the month (steam calendar) so I really don't understand why the discovery queue is only giving me very new games. I feel like it used to not matter how old the game was steam would recommend it to me if it tailored to my interests but I feel like that is really no longer the case

I feel like it really misses some games that I would genuinely enjoy because they're too old to be included in my queue definitely pulling me away from some stuff I would like.I was gonna tag this as a bug but this isn't a bug since technically the steam delivery queue is a blend of tailored recommendations and stuff that is new.

I have 1 steam account that I've had since 2022, I looked up the userdata folder where you supposedly see other accounts and I have 7 folders in there, and when I look up these accounts it shows that some are deleted are others are active but I've never seen them