{"id":92072,"date":"2026-10-11T15:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T07:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=92072"},"modified":"2026-10-11T15:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T07:02:01","slug":"hunting-for-new-games-polygons-wishlister-wants-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=92072","title":{"rendered":"Hunting for New Games? Polygon\u2019s Wishlister Wants To Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"78.507692307692\">\n<p>Ask a game developer, or even a dedicated player, about the biggest challenges of the video game industry and you\u2019re sure to hear one word: \u201cdiscoverability.\u201d With so many new games releasing every day, it\u2019s harder than ever to break through and get your game seen.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s especially a challenge on Steam, which grows closer to ubiquity with every passing year. Data from SteamDB suggests that an average of 70 new games are released on Steam every day. It\u2019s not simply a problem of new games getting buried on their launch day, though; finding promising upcoming games can be a challenge too.<\/p>\n<p>At Polygon, we have an advantage when it comes to that problem. We\u2019re learning about new games every day, which is how we bring our readers previews of games that catch our eyes. But it still felt like we could do more. So, we made Wishlister.<\/p>\n<div class=\"w-display-card-vignette\">\n            <!-- ============================================================\n     Polygon &mdash; Wishlister Newsletter Signup Widget &mdash; Markup\n     Pairs with polygon-newsletter-widget.css (shared with the\n     Switchboard widget &mdash; same component system, new copy\/art).\n     Needs Montserrat loaded once on the page:\n     <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Montserrat:wght@600;700;800&display=swap\">\n\n     IMPORTANT &mdash; image src below is a placeholder. Upload\n     steam-crop-portrait-4x5.jpg (sent alongside this file) to the CDN\n     and swap the src for its real URL before publishing. This crop has\n     no dead space baked in, so the plain .polygon-nl__media class\n     (full-height fill, no --crop-top\/--square modifier needed) is\n     correct here &mdash; do not add those modifier classes back for this art.\n     ============================================================ --><\/p>\n<div class=\"polygon-nl polygon-nl--horizontal\" wp_automatic_readability=\"7.5317073170732\">\n<div class=\"polygon-nl__body\" wp_automatic_readability=\"33.75\">\n<h3 class=\"polygon-nl__title\">Get Polygon\u2019s Wishlister newsletter<\/h3>\n<p class=\"polygon-nl__copy\">A weekly cheat sheet to what you\u2019ll eventually love to play. No buying, no<br \/>\n\t\t\tcommitment \u2014 just saving for later.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSign up free<br \/>\n\t\t\t<svg class=\"polygon-nl__cta-arrow\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<path d=\"M5 12h13M13 6l6 6-6 6\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg><\/p>\n<p class=\"polygon-nl__fine\">Free. Unsubscribe anytime.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Wishlister our new weekly newsletter that\u2019s all about cataloging upcoming PC games that you can add to your Steam wishlist today. Each week, we round up six games that look promising that drop them into your inbox. No buying, no commitment \u2014 just saving it for later.<\/p>\n<p>What kinds of games will you discover on Wishlister? There\u2019s no single answer, and that\u2019s the point! We\u2019ve created it as a celebration of how eclectic video games are. We won\u2019t just give you a list of the biggest open-world RPGs that you likely already know about, but a smattering of genre-spanning games that rarely look alike.<\/p>\n<p>Our subscribers have already gotten a taste of that since we launched Wishlister in September. Have you seen <em>Tinykin <\/em>developer Spalashteam\u2019s card-collecting, bakery sim, squirrel action game <em>Acornia: Mirror World<\/em>? How about the Doom-inspired corporate satire of <em>Cyberlich and the Death Cult of Labor<\/em>? Or <em>Vivarium<\/em>, a gorgeous cozy game that looks exactly like a Studio Ghibli movie? There\u2019s plenty more where that came from, and you can see it all in your inbox every week, alongside direct links to every game\u2019s Steam page. Just head to the game page, click the \u201cAdd to your wishlist\u201d button, and you\u2019re set!<\/p>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape \">\n<div class=\"responsive-img  image-expandable  img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:29.744816586922%\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/steam-wishlist-button.JPG\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;Image: Steam via Polygon&quot;\">\n<figure><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 480px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/steam-wishlist-button.JPG?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=500&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/steam-wishlist-button.JPG?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=500&amp;dpr=2\"\/><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/steam-wishlist-button.JPG?q=70&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=800&amp;dpr=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/steam-wishlist-button.JPG?q=70&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=800&amp;dpr=1\"\/><source media=\"(max-width: 1023px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/steam-wishlist-button.JPG?q=70&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/steam-wishlist-button.JPG?q=70&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=1\"\/><img width=\"825\" height=\"245\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Steam wishlist button appears on a game page.\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/steam-wishlist-button.JPG?q=70&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=1\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/steam-wishlist-button.JPG?q=70&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=1\" class=\"img-brightness-opt-out\"\/>\n        <\/picture><small class=\"body-img-caption\">Image: Steam via Polygon<\/small><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Wishlisting a game on Steam is like bookmarking an important page on your web browser, so let us help you stay organized and find some great games. You can subscribe to Wishlister today to start getting your weekly roundup of upcoming gems that very well become your next favorite game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/polygon-wishlister-sign-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask a game developer, or even a dedicated player, about the biggest challenges of the video game industry and you\u2019re sure to hear one word:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,7782,22236,31465],"class_list":["post-92072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-games","tag-hunting","tag-polygons","tag-wishlister","wpcat-32-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}