Player tags
What players on Steam call a game, with vote counts. "Story Rich" with 10,011 votes says more than a genre label.
The engine
An engine thatshows its work.
Oruvai doesn't guess from a cover or a genre. It reads what players say about a game, scores the reasons behind it and matches those to yours. Every number on this page is one you can follow into a recommendation.
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The path of a pick
Four steps. No black box.
Every recommendation is a short chain you can follow back to what players said and to the reasons you named.
01 · Player signals904,681 reviewsThe Witcher 3 · 12,801 players tagged it "Open World"
02 · Reasons scoredDialogue 92%in Mass Effect LE · players praise it
03 · Your weightsdialogue + choicesyou loved it for that · hectic shooters skipped
04 · Ranked and explained#1 Mass Effect LEFits because of choices with real consequences and standout dialogue. Players praise the choices.
What the engine knows about a game
Two numbers per reason.
How strongly a reason shows up in a game, and how players feel about it. Plenty of games have dialogue. Few have dialogue people rave about. Pick a game and inspect it.
The Witcher 3
904,681 Steam reviews · 96% positive
Is it there?Do players like it?
The dialogueDo conversations carry the game?75%+0.45praised
Choices that matterDo your decisions change what happens?48%+0.39praised
The worldIs the setting a place you want to wander?94%+0.64praised
The combatIs fighting a skill you can get better at?54%+0.38praised
The dark toneIs the mood serious, bleak or mature?51%+0.13liked
The calmDoes it let you unwind?2%n/abarely there
Presence comes from player tags and how often reviews mention the reason. Appeal compares how reviewers who liked the game and reviewers who didn't talk about it. Both are shrunk towards neutral when there is little to go on.
Where the data comes from
Players, not press releases.
The engine never reads marketing copy and no publisher can edit what it knows.
Review language
A balanced sample of positive and negative reviews per game. Plain counting shows which reasons the people who loved it mention, and which the people who didn't do.
Game facts
Release, platforms and artwork come from IGDB. They decide what can be recommended, not why it fits.
Honest about uncertaintyEvidence
The Witcher 3904,681 reviewssolid
Hades II124,263 reviewsgood
Blood of Dawnwalker30,256 reviews · no player tags yetgood
Pentiment9,913 reviewspreview
Call of Duty: BO616,479 reviews · no player tags yetpreview
A game with few reviews or no tags is marked as a preview, never dressed up as a sure thing. Confidence grows with every player who weighs in.
How a score is built
A recommendation, as arithmetic.
Pick what you loved and why. For every reason you keep, a game earns points for how present it is, weighted by how much players like it. What you skip counts against it.
You lovedFor these reasons
Playing a tour. Touch anything to take over.
The math for Mass Effect LE
The dialogue
0.9 × 0.92 × (0.5 + 0.5 × +0.46)0.61Choices that matter0.9 × 0.87 × (0.5 + 0.5 × +0.64)0.64Skip shooters- 0.6 × 0.61-0.37Quality nudge0.15 × (0.91 - 0.75)+0.02ScoreFits because of choices with real consequences and standout dialogue. Players praise the choices.
What we hold ourselves to
Rules the engine can't break.
Explanations are built from the numbers.
Every sentence in a pick is assembled from the two numbers above. No language model chooses or writes your recommendations.
Thin evidence is labelled.
New games with few reviews and games without player tags are marked as a preview, with the catch stated next to the pick.
What you skip counts.
Say you can't stand hectic shooters and they drop down the list, however popular they are.
No paid placement.
Publishers and stores can't buy a better rank. The full rules are in our recommendation transparency.
Where things stand
Live today. Growing next.
The engine on this page and on the homepage runs on 24 games. We are widening it step by step, and we say so instead of pretending it already covers everything.
24 games, six reasons.
Real player tags and review language, scored and explained. Free for everyone.
The whole catalogue.
270K+ games are listed today; about half link to Steam player data the engine can read. Until a game has been read, Oruvai recommends it with the existing system.
More reasons, more variety.
Dozens of reasons instead of six, variety in the top results, and learning from every "not for me" you tap.