- Valve has introduced a new personal calendar for Steam users through its Steam Labs experiment
- It allows users to easily view recently released and upcoming games based on game activity and wishlists.
- It’s another update that could be useful for the quality of life of the Steam client
Valve is making life easier for Steam client and SteamOS users, with updates to improve quality of life across the board, and the latest could end up being the most beneficial yet for gamers.
Announced on its community page, Valve has launched a new ‘Personal Calendar’ feature that allows players to easily view both recently released and upcoming games, including wishlist titles and recommended games based on play time.
It also features weekly and monthly views (for recent releases), with recommendations “retrained” daily to keep them fresh and well-aligned with user activity.
This should go a long way toward saving users time by keeping them up to date on when wishlist titles are released or entering early access, and by eliminating the need to manually search for new titles since everything is ready and laid out on this new calendar. It’s another update from Valve that many, including me, may not have known we wanted, but probably need.
With customization controls, users can adjust how many games are displayed (up to 500), filter by tags for specific game genres, hide own games, and only show wishlist titles.
It’s a very intuitive feature that Valve intends to expand through feedback as part of its experiments at Steam Labs, which appears to be one of only two ways to access the calendar, but it won’t be a surprise to see this appear in game libraries or Steam’s navigation bar if it becomes a full feature.
Based on what I’ve seen on my own schedule, it’s clear to me that Valve’s first version works very well, considering the large number of action and roguelite games in my library. There are a ton of titles launching in late 2025 and early 2026, so it’s safe to say that Valve picked the ideal time to push this update to users.
This comes at a time when Microsoft’s ‘full screen experience’ mode is available through the ROG Xbox Ally X portable gaming PC, which uses the Xbox app as a showcase and launcher; Updates and experiments as such from Valve will put the onus on Microsoft and Xbox (and other PC game launchers) to act and introduce more features to challenge the Steam launcher.
As things stand, Valve continues to prove why its store is the most popular for PC gamers, and hopefully it will continue to benefit gamers for a long time.
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