What Playfeed knows about you

You don't have to connect anything

New releases and Games like… work signed out, with every filter. Connecting Steam adds one thing: launches ranked against the games you actually play, instead of everything in release order.

What signing in gives us

Playfeed uses Steam's own sign-in (OpenID). You type your password on Steam's site, never here. We never see your password, and Steam never gives us your email address. What comes back is your SteamID — a public number.

With that number we ask Steam's public API for two things:

Your profile: display name, avatar, profile URL.
Your games and playtime — the same list anyone looking at a public Steam profile can see.

If your profile or game details are set to private, Steam returns nothing and we can't see them either. That's Steam's switch, not ours, and it keeps working after you connect.

What we store

Your SteamID, display name, avatar and profile URL.
Your games with playtime, refreshed when you sign in or press re-sync.
The taste edits you make here: tags you added or muted, games you unticked, games you hid.
A sign-in cookie, so you stay signed in. It holds your SteamID and nothing else.
When you were last here, and how many visits and days you've used Playfeed on. Counts only, not what you looked at.

That's the whole list. No email, no payment details, no friends list, no chat, no purchase history.

What we do with it

Rank new releases for you. Playfeed does not sell data, does not share it with game developers or advertisers, and does not take money for placing a game in your picks — the ranking is the product, so selling it would break it.

Testing the ranking. Before a change to the ranking goes live, we check it against the libraries stored here: hide a few games someone has played and see whether the ranking finds them again. It runs on the same server, the results are totals like “found 40% of the hidden games” with no names or Steam IDs attached, and nothing in your account changes.

The Playfeed for Steam extension

The browser extension adds Playfeed’s “games like this” to Steam store pages. It runs only on game pages at store.steampowered.com and does one thing there: it takes the game’s number from the address and asks playfeed.games for that game’s list.

Nothing else is sent: no cookies, no Steam account, no other pages you visit, nothing about you. It works the same whether or not you have a Playfeed account.
Each game's list is kept in your browser for six hours, so browsing Steam doesn't ask again every time. It stays on your device, and uninstalling the extension removes it.
Our server logs the request like any other page (IP address, page, time) and those logs rotate out after a couple of days. These requests aren't counted as visits.
No Umami, no tracking of any kind inside the extension. Clicking a game opens its Steam page; See more on Playfeed opens this site.

The boring infrastructure bits

The site runs on one rented server in Europe. The database sits on the same machine.
The web server keeps access logs — IP address, page, time — to spot crawlers and count visitors. Pages also tell it, with one small request, when you first scroll or tap and when you click a game, so scrapers that never do either aren't counted as people. The logs rotate out on their own after about a week.
Searches of three words or more are saved to make search better: just the words and which games came up, nothing about who typed them (no IP address, no account).
Page views and a few clicks (which game you searched for, Show more, a Steam link) are counted with Umami, which is cookieless and stores no personal data. Plenty of people block it; that's fine.
Game data, images and prices come from Steam. Following a link to a store page puts you on Valve's site under their rules.

Deleting it

Settings → Your data → Delete account. It removes your profile, your library, your playtime and every taste edit, immediately and for good. There's no soft delete, no thirty-day grace period and no copy kept for analytics.

Who's asking

Playfeed is one person's side project, not a company, and it isn't affiliated with Valve. If something here doesn't match what the site does, say so in the Discord and it gets fixed or corrected.