The Discovery Queue, a feature in Steam since 2014, has now been updated as part of the platform’s “Experiment 14”.

For those unfamiliar with Steam Labs and its various experiments, this is where Valve tests out its new content that users can mess around with at their leisure as a kind of open beta.

At some point in the future the experiment will usually launch out of Steam Labs and become the new normal for Steam as a whole, changing how everyone uses it.

This latest change is summarised by Valve:

• “Launch into the queue without leaving the page you are on
• Simplified presentation of key details about each game to give you a taste of what that game is about
• See why each game is being recommended specifically to you; maybe it’s because you have friends who play it, or it’s similar to other games you play, for example
• Add a game to your wishlist with the click of a button or view the game’s full store page for a more in-depth view
• Ignore games that just aren’t your jam. We’ll make sure to hide them in the future.”

For those who prefer to get some hands on, head here and click on the blue button labelled “Open The New Discovery Queue”.

We tried out the new system and gave the old / existing one another try to refresh our memory and the biggest change is that the entire queue is now on one page and you can get through it much faster.

For those who have never used the Discovery Queue before it was a curated list of games Valve thinks you may like based on a number of factors. These games were presented one by one and you had to load into each store page sequentially, which was on the tedious side even with a fast internet connection.

This new system is so much better in terms of pure speed which is likely Valve’s goal of having more players looking at (and hopefully buying) more games.

Even the old system, according to the announcement, was rather successful in this goal.

“Originally launched in 2014, the Steam Discovery Queue gives players a way to step through a personalized set of recommended games one at a time. To date, 115 million players have used the Steam Discovery Queue, viewing a combined total of 18 billion game store pages,” Valve writes.

Even more is coming to the queue in the future including a new display on the Steam homepage, the ability to launch the queue from any store page and optimisation of the system even for the Steam Deck and its gamepad.