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Ethanol 16 Jan, 2021 @ 7:29am
Add 'Mods' as a Special Section or a Genre?
Mods are a very cool thing on Steam, but I often find that it's pretty difficult to find them as I have to go to the "Mods on Steam" page and click the "Browse all Mods" button on the right. I think they'd get a lot more attention and be easier to find if they had their own Special Section in the left column, or a highlighted genre or something.

Thanks :)

Edit: Also in a potential "Mods Section" maybe have a way to look at mods for specific games, so I can filter it by HL2 mods, or New Vegas mods. Or have a button to only show mods for games that you own. I don't know, y'all Steam geniuses can think of some good options :)

I hope I atleast get a response to this because I think this would definitely bring mods on Steam a lot more attention, as I think a lot of Steam users don't even know the extent that Steam supports mods to, and think that it only extends to the Workshop.

The subsequent attention this would bring to mods would be a big incentive for the community's to make them, and it would further drive innovation in the community content space!
Last edited by Ethanol; 18 Jan, 2021 @ 6:50am
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Christen 20 Jan, 2021 @ 1:27pm 
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Ethanol 20 Jan, 2021 @ 2:41pm 
Originally posted by Christen:
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Thanks for the response Christen! :)

With more and more mods coming out on Steam now, especially with the upcoming release of The Frontier, and older more popular mods like Aperture Tag or Portal Stories: Mel, I think mods on Steam are more important now than they've ever been, especially right now when people are trying to squeeze the most they can out of the games that they own. I think that the effort that both Steam and the mod devs have put in to get mods on Steam working as a viable thing is overshadowed by how hard it is to actually look for mods on Steam, so I hope you take my suggestion into account :) thanks.
Last edited by Ethanol; 20 Jan, 2021 @ 2:42pm
Ethanol 19 Apr, 2021 @ 4:32am 
Any update on whether or not this will be a feature by the way? I don't mean to bump/necro the thread, but I'm very interested in how Steam/Valve are supporting mods on Steam in the future, especially with Portal Reloaded releasing today (which looks epic) and tons if other Portal mods being added to Steam, making it easier to find them will be great for both players and devs :)
Ethanol 21 Apr, 2021 @ 2:10pm 
Originally posted by Christen:
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

I've just seen this feature shipped, and it's great, but was my suggestion completely ignored? At the moment it's annoyingly complex to find the list of mods on steam, because you have to find this really obscure "Mods on Steam page (which you can only find from already knowing the name/page of an already existing mod) and then clicking "Browse all the mods". All it would take is just adding "Mods" under "Special Sections" and then linking to the "Mods on Steam page or the "Browse all Mods page.
Last edited by Ethanol; 21 Apr, 2021 @ 2:11pm
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