Recommendations
How the recommendation engine works across the home page, favorites page, and game detail page.
Home Page
The home page shows several recommendation blocks, each tailored to your library:
Rediscover Your Library
Genre-diverse random picks from your collection, shuffled on each visit.
Top Rated
Highest-rated games weighted by community vote count. Games with few votes are penalized to avoid low-confidence entries dominating the list.
Top Genres
A rotating spotlight that picks one of your library’s most represented genres and shows the highest-rated games in that genre. Requires a minimum of 6 qualifying games.
Multiplayer
Games in your library that support 2+ players, for when you have friends over.
Because You Love
Based on your favorited games’ genres and systems. Finds other games in those categories that you have not favorited yet.
Curated Spotlight (Rotating)
One section per page load, randomly picked from several types:
| Type | Example Title |
|---|---|
| Best by Genre | “Best Platformers” |
| Best of System | “Best of Mega Drive” |
| Games by Developer | “Games by Capcom” |
| Hidden Gems | Highly rated games you haven’t played yet |
| Co-op Games | Best rated cooperative games |
Requires a minimum of 6 games to show. Falls back to a global “Top Rated” section if the chosen type has too few results. Minimum rating threshold: 3.5.
Discover Pills
A rotating set of 5 quick-link chips that let you browse by genre, system, developer, decade, or multiplayer mode.
Favorites Page
Because You Love [Game]
Picks a random favorite and finds similar games by genre across systems, supplemented by developer matches. Shows 6 games, excluding already-favorited titles.
More from [Series]
Finds series siblings for all your favorited games that you have not yet favorited.
Game Detail Page
Related Games
Genre-based recommendations: games sharing the same genre as the current game.
Filtering and Deduplication
All recommendations apply consistent filtering:
- One ROM per game – when multiple region variants exist, only the preferred-region version is shown
- Region preference – respects your configured region preference (Settings > Region)
- Exclusions – clones, translations, hacks, and special ROMs (unlicensed, homebrew, pre-release, pirate) are excluded
- No duplicates – a game never appears twice across recommendation sections