Not so important intro... :
After longer pause, hello again to old good friends and other retro gaming freaks.
For long time I was looking for a system that would show a list of similar games and other things like movies or music.
I tested many websites which offered similar games informations, but most suggestions had weak similarity precision or were absurd.
Like you know, for example, saying that Diablo is 100 percent similar to Baldurs Gate, where first game is just hack n slash with roguelike elements, and second game is strong RPG with party based tactical combat.
You may also check out similar games on popular big game database like giantbomb and make big eyes when looking at these lists.
Good solution was to use google and search for forum topics about similar games to your favorite, but this takes a time and response is not always what we expected.
Some time ago we run SimilarType service that was 100 percent community based, where users were creating similarity connections between games.
Thanks to scary_fun and few other users from here who helped us to create this similarity database.
The problem was that not much users were adding content, so we ended up with just few hundreds similar games.
To the point... :
So, I started to work on automated analyser which should bring as precise similar games as possibile, by taking focus on accuracy as main goal.
In my opinion, result is quite good, and will be improved as possible.
New SimilarType system is currently processing 2600+ PC Games (DOS and Windows, 1981-2016), and a few thousands for whole PlayStation and Xbox families.
I also coded analyser for movies and music too, but it currently supports a few main genres (it will be extended).
Here you can check example list of similar games for Baldurs Gate: http://www.similartype.com/?m=-1&id=153 ... r%27s+Gate
How to make it better?
Automated analyser is not a human, so results are not perfect, but still quite good and useful for some people.
You can find anomalies on similarity ranking like games that are too high, too low or do not exist at all while they should be there.
Some of such cases are caused by too little information about such game right now.
Good example of low score is Temple Of Elemental Evil in Baldurs Gate similar games.
You may wonder what is doing Eye Of Beholder in Baldurs Gate similar games.
It is there because of fantasy setting, party based, real time combat, dungeons and dragons rules, and some other things in RPG gameplay.
So, if you find some anomalies, let me know and their reason will be investigated.
Any comments will be appreciated.
SimilarType is available for you here: http://www.similartype.com/
You can check out similar games to your favorite titles.
Thanks for your attention!