Valve revamps Steam Store layout

Valve has adjusted the appearance of the store in the Steam beta client. The new layout of the game client offers more areas than before. Among other things, Valve now also displays discounts on games and DLCs that are on your wishlist. In addition, users can scroll endlessly to get more game suggestions displayed.

Valve informs about the new layout of the Steam Store, which is practically also the start page of the Steam client, in a blog post. Users who have opted for the beta client of the game store already see the changes live. All others will have to wait until the redesign is rolled out to the main branch of Steam at a later date.

Why is this recommended to me?

The new Steam Store continues to open with a large advertising carousel for games that are currently popular (“Featured and Recommended”). What's new is that Steam informs you why exactly a game is recommended there. This usually happens based on related keywords of already played titles or good sales figures.

If you hover over the preview image of a suggested game, a trailer will automatically play. However, this can be deactivated in the settings by switching off the option for microtrailers in the account settings under “Store Preferences”.

Below the advertising carousel, Valve places hints about current sales events before a smaller carousel points to current discounts. Below that, Valve again shows discounts on games and DLCs that you have put on your wishlist. This is followed by further recommendation boxes and tiles with which you can filter the store by specific genres.

Endless Scrolling

What's new is that the Steam Store can be scrolled endlessly downwards, with more and more game suggestions being displayed. To return to the top, you have to click on the “Store” tab in the menu bar.

Only last autumn, Valve released a larger redesign of the Steam Store for all users of the client after beta users had been able to test it for several months. The current innovations are more refinements than a complete overhaul.

To use the Steam beta client, you simply have to navigate to “Interface” in the Steam settings and select the beta update under the option “Participate in client beta.” Steam then needs to be restarted.

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