About NextSave

NextSave answers one question: I just finished a game I loved — what should I play next?

Most "games like X" articles are listicles. Ten paragraphs of prose, one paragraph per pick, no way to scan and no way to compare. If you've already played three of them, you have to read the whole thing to find the two you haven't.

We do it differently. Every game gets the same set of DNA tags — atmosphere, combat style, structure, pace. Every recommendation is ranked by how much of that DNA it shares with the seed game, and tells you both what's similar and what's different. You can scan the matrix, pick the trait that mattered most, and self-veto in seconds.

How the similarity score works

The score is an opinion, not an algorithm. We read every game listed against the seed, catalog overlapping DNA tags, and assign a 0–100 number that reflects how close the experience actually is — not how many tags happen to match on paper. A game with 4 of 7 tags in common might score 90 if those 4 tags are the defining ones; another with 6 in common might score 70 if the missing one is the thing the seed game was actually about.

Calibration check: a direct sequel by the same studio usually lands 90–95. A game that hits the same vibe but a different genre lands 70–80. Below 60, we don't bother including it.

Who's behind this

I'm Chang. I run NextSave as a one-person project. I'm not a game journalist or an industry insider — I'm a player who has spent a depressing number of hours staring at Steam's "more like this" box and finding it useless.

I research every game I write about (developer interviews, hours of gameplay video, Steam reviews, my own playtime where I have it). I don't fabricate facts and I don't use AI to bulk-generate listicles — the writing is mine; the data table is hand-curated. When I'm uncertain about a fact, I leave it out rather than guess.

If I get something wrong, email me at hello@nextsave.net and I'll fix it.