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Improved search algorithm Currently, the basic search algorithm on IGDB seems to value popularity over anything -- even the title of the game being searched.
When I searched for "Persona 2", it being a 2-part game, the games "Persona 2: Innocent Sin" and "Persona 2: Eternal Punishment" appear as the 16th and 19th entries down the list respectively, while "Persona 5", by dar the most popular game in the series, showed up first.
The algorithm needs to prioritize the search input much more than it currently does, as the current system renders inputting sequel or series entry numbers (2, 5 etc.) quite useless.31 votesHey! We’re in the progress of making some updates to our search technology.
Stay tuned!
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Add certain Bundles as selectable categories Games listed as Bundles on IGDB aren't selectable as Twitch categories, and for things like Gunvolt Striker Pack where you're either playing Gunvolt 1 or Gunvolt 2 that makes sense.
Certain Bundles feel like experiences of their own though. I've been streaming the Game & Watch Gallery series recently and its frustrating that there's no category for it, the games it bundles together are small games, so you're naturally going to be playing around the collection, but Twitch has each individual game selectable rather than the bundle as a whole. I think it would be much better to just have…
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Make game recommendations that are personalized Do it by using both:
Content filtering (content-based filtering): a user rates games and/or adds games to their personal library or lists, and then is shown stuff that has similar metadata to the games that that user has rated highly and/or added to their library. For example, games within the same genres, games from the same developers, games released in the same year, etc.
Collaborative filtering (user-library-based filtering): a user rates games and/or adds games to their personal library, and then is shown stuff that other users who highly rated those same games and/or have those same games in their…
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Show the "version title" in the search results By showing the version title, it would be easier to know which version is which for games with the same name in different versions. It could be shown in front of the release date.
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Game list container pagination missing The element used for browsing lists of games that fit a certain page’s criteria (e.g. game engine pages, category/keyword pages, franchise pages) sometimes does not display the pagination, preventing users from seeing any games beyond the first 10 shown. Changing the sort mode can allow you to see a different slice of 10 games, thus verifying that there should be additional pages visible.
some examples:
https://www.igdb.com/game_engines/bitsy
https://www.igdb.com/game_engines/pico-8
https://www.igdb.com/game_engines/twine
https://www.igdb.com/categories/homestar-runner
https://www.igdb.com/categories/real-time-battles
https://www.igdb.com/franchises/homestar-runner9 votesHeya! Indeed definitely a bug, we’ve added this into our backlog and will look at a fix as soon as possible.
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Add negative filtering (exclusion) by categories in IGDB advanced search. Introduction: The Problem
"The current advanced search functionality on IGDB.com allows users to include specific genres, themes, game modes, and player perspectives to filter results. However, there is no option to exclude games that belong to certain categories."
Proposed Solution: Inverse (Negative) Filtering
"I propose adding an 'inverse filtering' (or 'negative filtering') feature for the following categories in the advanced search:
Genres
Themes
Game Modes
Player Perspectives
This would allow users to select one or more of these categories to exclude (hide) all games tagged with that specific category from their search results."How it Works (Example):
"For example:
If…
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DLC View I think IGDB should borrow the "All DLC page" from Steam.
So, on a page that has lots of DLC, say
Snowrunner - https://www.igdb.com/games/snowrunner (12 DLC)
or
Euro Truck Sim 2 - https://www.igdb.com/games/euro-truck-simulator-2 (11 DLC)A page should be added say https://www.igdb.com/games/euro-truck-simulator-2/dlc
Which has a layout simial to https://store.steampowered.com/dlc/1465360/SnowRunner/#browse
So a vertical list of all the DLC's with the box art and the summary (maybe the website links along side)
Then you can more easily see all the DLC without having to use the arrows to navigate the list.
This can also help karma hunters to easily revise/update data on…
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Standalone Expansion not available in series collection pages Currently if you look at a series collection page, the main games, dlc and expansions are listed, but not standalone expansions.
Examples:
https://www.igdb.com/games/nostalgia-forte is not listed on its series collection page https://www.igdb.com/collections/nostalgiahttps://www.igdb.com/games/far-cry-3-blood-dragon is not listed on its series collection page https://www.igdb.com/collections/far-cry
I think it is hard to find those stand alone expansions from the perspective of trying to find all standalone games in a series and would really like to have them represented.
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Personalise home screen Have more options in the personalise home screen that change the categories that show, and maybe change the locations like widgets.
Bee able to see suggested games (based on ratings), see karma hunter categories (missing credits, missing screenshots), be able to make the coming soon big like the popular games right now etc.
7 votesHey!
Awesome suggestion thank you. Revisiting the homepage is definitely planned in the future. Right now we do have filters by platforms that will impact the games reviewed and the coming soon/recently released sections.
Being able to showcase more community driven games, such as rated, reviewed or contributed is definitely one good option.
We’ll have announcements when we return to this! thanks
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advanced search Separate main game,dlc,expended game into different label in advanced search
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Advanced search pages Currently to discover more titles using advanced search, you have to keep scrolling until you hit Load more. Further, after a few of those it dead ends and and you can't look anymore into whatever parameters you want, especially when searching in very wide criteria such as release date alone. Adding more "Load More" scrolls would just slow down the website and not be a feasible solution. A great quality of life change would be to just make it simple pages or do some kind of hybrid with the current, due to it's inconsistency alone it makes the database difficult…
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Making the original Shiren category available on Twitch The remake of work, Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer (IGDB ID: 78341, NDS Shiren) appears on Twitch, but the original, Fushigi no Dungeon 2: Furai no Shiren (IGDB ID: 103496, original Shiren), is registered with IGDB but does not appear on Twitch. NDS Shiren is not just a port, it's a completely new remake, and there's no way original Shiren can be broadcast under the NDS Shiren category.
Twitch shows other remakes, but why doesn't it show Shiren? The reason may be that it's considered an alternative to other games, as shown on the following page.
https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/adding-a-game-and-box-art-to-the-directory?language=en_US
Even if it's…6 votes -
exclusive Add an option to the /advanced_search to filter something out, like a platform. This way people can more easily find platform exclusives.
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Requiem: Rise of the Reaver name update Requiem: Rise of the Reaver was re-released in 2022 and it received a name change to 'Requiem: Desiderium Mortis'. It would be helpful to have the category updated to reflect the title's new name. Here is a link to the game's website if needed (https://www.playrequiem.com)
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Upcoming releases using advanced search There is the coming soon section which can be filter by platform but there is no way that I can find to see if there are upcoming games for a specific genre. Having the feature will be a nice way to discover upcoming games of a specific genre a person might like which they are not aware of.
Easiest solution I can think of is in advanced search it would be nice if there was a field for "not released" or "coming soon" in the years section. Any game which is not cancelled and is not less than or equal…
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make the release dates for games display in regional format all the dates for games releases are in USA date format. can you change this to be regional please? so it shows up as 28/7/2026 for me in the UK instead of 7/28/2026
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Adding Dragon Ball PROJECT: Multi to Twitch Game Category New Dragon Ball game, Dragon Ball PROJECT: Multi is in live beta for 4 days so far, it's a new Moba and we have no game category for it! here is the bandai official website for the game https://dbpm.bn-ent.net/en/
game is from bandai namco
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Navigate database systems games by individual starting letter, #,A,B, C... X,Y,Z Would be great to navigate the database of a Plataform letter by letter, like Gamefaqs website, is a chore to manually reach the page of a plataform if you are seeing the games starting with M for example.
Thanks would be much appreciated!!
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Filter by platform in wishlist or any list Please consider adding filters to lists based on the platforms contained in the list (or predefined).
This will help, for instance, to find what to play next for people who own multiple platforms.
Just imagine, you open your wishlist filter it by “switch”, and voila: you see only games that you wanted to play on switch.
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Search by player count It would be nice to add an option to search for game that let you play either multiplayer or co-op with X amount of people.
Here is our problem as of right now:
We are looking for a game to play as a friend group, however when you look for co-op games there is no way to quickly sort for game's that allow for lets say 4 or 5 players to play together. or with BIG multiplayer game to look for games that allow for x party size.
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