Steam is itself the queen of digital video game stores.. Since its inception, Valve has known to offer great service to its users. Of course, this does not mean that everything on the platform is perfect. During all the years of his life we ​​have seen different types of mistakes, unreasonable strategies, decisions that were difficult to understand… But at this point we have to understand that we are also talking about the dean of digital business and that therefore she had to start to explore the market that was supposed to be yet to be defined and on which uncertainty was present at every step.

Today, their numbers speak for themselves, and its monthly surveys managed to become a reference for many media. In addition, his support for Linux through Proton has earned him the sympathy of the community, especially since Epic Games is going in the opposite direction, routinely ignoring Linux and even removing support for the operating system after acquiring them, in games that used to have it as that was the case with Rocket League.

On the other hand, we cannot ignore your desire to explore the hardware marketalbeit with mixed results. For example, many of us still remember the impact that Steam Machines caused for Valve, but closer in time we also remember the huge success that Steam Deck brought in many ways to a device that knew how to exceed expectations and that we can even confirm, that it was the resistance that the by then moribund portable video game console market needed.

Over the past year we’ve seen the store improve, first with game info and stats, and a few weeks later with data formats and upcoming release lists, proving that they’re very aware of the importance of the store interface. Well, Valve announced another update today, and it’s one that I personally feel is a big success, and that Steam quick search now includes brands, developers, publishers and franchisesand also is more flexible with misspelled words. In this way, its usefulness grows exponentially, which is something I’m sure you’ll agree with me on if you’ve ever used it.

With this improvement to Quick Search (which means results that appear below the search box as you type), now available in both the Steam client and the web interface, we can see the information arranged in a very convenient waywith a selection of a few games at the top of the list and tags/sagas/brands below that are likely to be what we’re looking for as well.

However, these new elements do not appear on the search results page (the one that appears when we press enter or click the magnifying glass icon), but it would make a lot of sense for Valve to update this page as well by adding these elements. However, this is just a suggestion inspired by the huge improvement this change brings to Quick Search.