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I'm not sure what Steam thinks Super Bomberman R 2 and Star Trek Online have in common, but I'm pretty sure that nobody wants a bunch of bomb-making robots running loose on their spaceship!
After that, I noticed several more really strange recommendations;
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This has nothing in common with Halloweenish cartoony oddities.
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Ape Out is a colourful, jazzy, destructive maze-chase game, complete with the genre's traditional top-down view. Even a relatively bad algorithm shouldn't be recommending Doom in response.
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I don't get how it came up with this one at all.
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Games like these are basically the antithesis of a bouncy, cheerful title like New Super Lucky's Tale.
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I guarantee you, Naruto is nothing like Zool and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (Not pictured is when it also recommended a basketball game for the same reason...
Of course, we all know that Steam is generally pretty terrible at recommending games, but I felt that these efforts really went above and beyond.
Has anyone else got any utterly insane recommendations that Steam has thrown at them? Please share!
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It's possible, sure, but then again this is the very same algorithm that tells me that direct sequels to games I've poured ludicrous amounts of time into aren't related to anything I've played!
That said, I'm not too concerned about the ins-and-outs of a known-bad algorithm, here - I'd just like to share some laughs about it, since I'm sure it does this with a lot of people.