Changelog

Changes: 15/05/2024

Fix for issues surround some games such as Cyberpunk 2077 not showing due to Steam API quirks.
Added Discord CTA to homepage.
Removed top 25 review system as it was causing layout issues. Need to rethink how this works.

Swapped to GPT-4o for analysis - this will be monitored to see how much it costs me as it's 10x more expensive thant GPT 3.5-Turbo. If you like this change please consider joining the Patreon to support the site.
Added the top 25 positive reviews and top 25 negative reviews organised by playtime to the results page. These are gathered from a sample of 1000 most recent reviews.
Some design tweaks to the results page.

Updated wording on sidebar stats to make it more clear that the combined, average and median playtime is just from the reviews calculated - not the app in general.
Added median playtime to sidebar stats.
Small optimisation for crawling the reviews.

Implemented some lazy loading elements - now the user is redirected to the results page much quicker, and the analysis and some sidebar information is loaded while the user is on the page.
Added temporary loading spinner whilst the results are loaded - this will be replaced with a custom graphic.
Incorporated game capsule into the sidebar instead of the app name as text.
Now display follower count in sidebar.
Re-introduced the Random button, this is still a little slow but should always return an app as long as it meets the below criteria.

Added a 'Copy Share Link' button - I've labelled this as beta for now, as it doesn't link to the exact results you have as these aren't cached, instead it peforms the search again. It has three parameters:

Added social links to footer - why not give us a follow!
Removed kofi banner and replaced with the newly launched Patreon account on the main page.
Added a supporter page where Patreon members can get a credit, and a custom link on the Supporter Plus tier.

Added padding to lists to make them a bit easier to read.
Fixed issue with Steam API integration where it sometimes wasn't returning the full amount of reviews requested.
Added Google Analytics.
General design and responsiveness tweaks.
Added button to loading overlay to allow the user to cancel the search.
Added an average playtime box to the results page.
Added some more data to results screen such as developers, publishers, release date and a game description.
Removed Random game button temporarily whilst I work on putting some checks in place to make sure it always finds a valid game.

Changed over from scraping the reviews from HTML, to using the Steam API resulting in much faste response and more data.
Added header images back to the results page.
Added handling for special characters, for example you can now search for "Helldivers 2" and it will work even though the game is "Helldivers™ 2".

Website redesign to look a lot nicer.
Added random button which can return a random game - note: this could return unreleased games which won't have any reviews to view.
Removed header image on results page due to it breaking page layout. I hope to reintroduce this once I can solve the issue.

Enabled ability to search by game name (as well as URL and AppID).
Implemented user sessions, so settings are remembered when returning to homepage.
Added footer information.
Handling for age gate and content gate.
Added handling for repeating character breaking gpt prompt.