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Steam wishlists are getting categories, making it even easier to organise all those games you’ll definitely buy next sale
Valve is adding categorisation to Steam wishlists, letting players sort their saved games into custom groups such as genre, release year or review score, alongside improved search and sharing tools. The change responds to user requests for better ways to manage increasingly long wishlists, and comes bundled with updates that make gifting games to others considerably easier.
Players will be able to filter their wishlist by category, assign games to specific categories when adding them, and choose which notifications they receive for each title. Wishlists can also now be shared with others, tying into an expanded guest checkout system that previously covered only gift cards and hardware but can now be used to buy any game on Steam; games can also be gifted directly to someone's email address, and cross-region gifting is now supported.
In short
- Steam wishlists can now be sorted into custom categories
- Guest checkout extended to cover all game purchases, not just gift cards
- Gifting by email and across regions is now supported
Explained simply
Steam is the world's largest digital storefront for playing and purchasing video games. Most players use the platform's wishlist feature to bookmark titles they're interested in, creating personal lists of games they want to buy.
As Steam's library has grown to tens of thousands of games, many players' wishlists have become increasingly difficult to manage. Finding specific games or remembering why you saved a particular title months ago becomes challenging when these lists grow very long.
Valve is the company that owns and operates Steam. The platform regularly receives updates based on feedback from its millions of players worldwide.