With today’s Steam update, the Personal Calendar feature officially graduates from Steam Labs and is considered a full feature of the Steam Store. You can find it right on your Steam store homepage, or by visiting https://store.steampowered.com/personalcalendar

The Steam Personal Calendar is another way to see recommended games for you, showing both recently released and upcoming games filtered down to the the set of games we think you are most likely to be interested in. It uses your recently played games to find people with similar playtime profiles to you, and then looks at the games those players have been adding to their wishlist or playing.

• Based on games you play a lot: The system focuses on your playtime for games that you play the most. So, a few minutes trying out a new game or two won’t have much impact on your recommendations, but sinking a bunch of time into a new favorite will.

• Refreshed daily: This recommendation system gets re-trained daily to incorporate the latest data. In reality you aren’t likely to see your recommendations change all that much from day to day, but as time goes by you will obviously see new things pop up as the 8-week horizon of the calendar marches forward, or as games lock in their release dates.

The Steam Store has a number of different methods for recommending games. Some sections of the front page trend toward showing more popular games and some sections trend toward showing games similar to those you play regardless of how long ago they released. The Personal Calendar was designed to fill a gap in between: to help players find popular and niche games that may be of interest and are new or soon to release.

This approach seems to resonate strongly with many players, as we’re seeing a lot of you exploring and clicking on games in the Personal Calendar.

For example, in an average 24-hour period, players click on over 2,000 different games on in the Steam Personal Calendar. That shows that not only is the calendar succeeding at matching games with players most likely interested, but also that players are exploring deep into their calendars to see what has recently released or is coming out far in the future.

The Personal Calendar first released as a Steam Labs experiment in October of 2025. Steam Labs is our designation for new store and discovery features that we think are interesting, but that need more focused feedback to be refined into a polished product. With eleven months of feedback from players and developers, we’ve been able to refine the Personal Calendar into a great way to discover new games.

During the course of development while in Steam Labs, we’ve made a number of improvements big and small. For example, we added the ability for game developers to specify a date they intend to release from Early Access to 1.0 so that we could list these titles on the calendar. We also added better filtering tools and display options for things like wishlisted games, Early Access games, and DLC. Extensive work was also put into making the new feature work smoothly across different devices, including desktop PC, mobile devices, and SteamOS devices.

Q. Where can I learn more about how the Personal Calendar works?

A. We just put out a new video and documentation aimed at helping game developers understand how the Personal Calendar works for surfacing their games. Check it out here if you are interested in more of the details:

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/visibility/personalcalendar

Q. Did any of these games pay to be shown to me?

A. No, we don’t sell placement on the Steam Personal Calendar, or anywhere else on Steam. The Personal Calendar also isn’t hand-curated. The featuring in the personal calendar is done algorithmically and it is personalized for each user. If you’re curious about how visibility works on Steam, we put together a great set of documentation and video for game developers here:

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/visibility

Q. Will I get stuck in a bubble of recommendations only like the games I’ve been playing lately?

A. We’re also concerned about the potential for getting stuck in a filter bubble (getting too narrow of recommendations), so we work hard on keeping things varied. With the Personal Calendar, it’s unlikely that every day has a new game launching that is the same genre/theme as games you’ve been playing and is also a good recommendation for you. As a result, the recommendations generated by the Personal Calendar end up drawing from a wider pool of titles across all kinds of genres that are releasing each day.

In the pursuit of building a better platform and shopping experience, the Steam Team are continually experimenting with new ideas around discoverability, video, machine learning, and more. Some of these experiments are clear and obvious upgrades to existing features, or are part of products we’ve already decided to build, and they get built out and released. Other times, we end up with experiments where we feel like we would benefit from more input from Steam users to help inform the direction that we take it, or whether it is even interesting enough to turn into a full feature.

With Steam Labs experiments, you can try, share, and break these potential new features, while we figure out what to keep and what to scrap. Share your feedback with the developers and designers working on these features and help shape the future of Steam.

Check out all experiments on the Steam Labs page or drop us some feedback in the Steam Labs discussion boards.