Welcome back to the Club 250 newsletter! The headline feature of this update is Watchlists, but we have plenty of other goodies too! Watchlists allow you to keep track of interesting games. They are similar to the Steam wishlist, but you can have as many as you want, and we plan to do more with t...
2025-01-08 17:23:16 +0000 UTC View Post
What major new features were added since January? Tags! We greatly enhanced the Club 250 tag pages, adding detailed descriptions for every tag, typically with a detailed breakdown of the common tropes and examples of quintessential games for each.
Writing so much content for 446 tags wo...
2024-04-08 22:35:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy New Year! What do we have in store this time? There have been some major features and many smaller ones since last update. Let's kick off 2024 with a review of the latest updates to Club 250!
The feature we teased at the end of the last update and show...
2024-01-06 12:52:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Update time! Steam 250 just had its 5th birthday in November 2022, so it's a little late to celebrate, but we can probably still get away with a tada emoji: 🎉! It's been about a year since our last update post so let's just get straight into it, starting with the most important change...
2023-03-03 14:44:13 +0000 UTC View PostHello lovely patrons! I don't like to spam you with over-communication, and past posts have had fairly low engagement, so I wasn't going to post until I had something exciting to share, but we're way past due an update so let's have a quick poll instead.
More updates? 🤔
2022-12-17 17:54:07 +0000 UTC View Post
We've been hard at work to bring you our first email featurette: the Club 250 Weekly Edition! Each week we can deliver the top 30 games of the week directly to your inbox! As of this writing, the next edition is du...
2022-03-11 23:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
A warm welcome to all our new Patrons! We're on the road to leaving the Club 250 beta period soon, and as such, we're moving some of our premium features behind the paywall instead of giving them away for free as we do currently. We're trying to keep most features behind the lowest wall of $1, bu...
2021-11-02 08:13:41 +0000 UTC View Post
In August we brought you two major new features: cross-site synchronised Steam login and the poster-child for this month's update, Patreon account linking!
Synchronised login means that when you log in or out with Steam, no matter whether you do so from Stea...
2021-09-05 16:31:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I owe you guys an update, it's been a little while! I don't get a lot of feedback on these posts so I don't know what you guys want to read about. We usually do a recap and a bit of looking forward so let's stick with that for now but please leave a comment with your thoughts, if you liked this u...
2021-07-20 10:40:59 +0000 UTC View Post
It has been less than 3 weeks since our last update when we introduced the advanced search in the form of Custom Rankings. We've got an u...
2021-03-05 12:44:15 +0000 UTC View Post
We did it! We finally launched the first version of our Custom Ranking tool, AKA Power Search AKA multi-tag search; this one tool does it all! You can search for tags you like and exclude tags you don't like as well ...
2021-02-15 21:49:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy New Year patrons new and old! We have a few new members this month so a warm welcome to those who recently pledged, and along with them, we have tons to cover in this month's update so let's get started.
The first major feature are the 2021-01-07 23:34:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Most of November was spent fixing backend issues, which won't be very interesting to most of our readers, so I'll keep this paragraph brief. We're exhausting our daily IOPS on the database backend, so the site will run very slowly in the early hours of the morning (UTC). We've tried to alleviate ...
2020-12-08 18:16:45 +0000 UTC View Post
We hit our first target quite early in October, backfilling all game pricing history data and publishing an interactive chart to explore it. As a big bonus, we teamed up with GameDiscoverCo to use this data in sales estimates. These...
2020-11-10 20:01:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Last month may have looked quiet, but suffice it to say, I was working all month to accomplish what I set out to do: improve Club 250's back end to have consistent daily updates like Steam 250. You might recall from 2020-10-03 15:07:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Lots of new stuff this month. First up, we have a proper game title search now. The search bar used to just invoke a Google search of page content on Steam 250 but now it'll match games and other St...
2020-09-04 13:48:43 +0000 UTC View Post
For a long time we wanted to create a new Steam 250 homepage with a dashboard interface to give a clear overview of many of the rankings on offer. Until now, the homepage was our signature Top 250 ranking only, but I think this dashboard interface should be more valuable for helping new users dis...
2020-08-08 09:53:09 +0000 UTC View Post
It's almost been a month since Club 250 went live and we've accomplished a lot in that short time. So much work has been done behind the scenes but also on the scenes, and I wanted to showcase a before and after in this month's update picture so you can easily compare how the site has ch...
2020-07-05 17:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Club 250 features are now live across the site. Simply click on any game title to be taken to the new game details page. This page shows a historical chart of each game's ranking within the top 1000 games on Steam since ...
2020-06-08 18:00:38 +0000 UTC View PostExcited to announce the very first iteration of Club 250, with full ranking history for every game on Steam, is just around the corner. Will be going live within the next week. If you want a preview, check the previous post. As soon as it's available I'll post again. That's all for now!
2020-06-02 12:45:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the March update. It's a little late this month because every day I delay making this post, the more exciting things I have to show. That's largely because I quit my job of 16 months just last week, so from Monday 6th I'm working on Club 250 full time.
The post screenshot this mo...
2020-04-13 16:03:31 +0000 UTC View PostTotal review backfilling was completed in February just as planned! We now have all reviews for all games on Steam, and with that, we can generate rankings since 2010-10-15, when the review system first launched on Steam. Even though Steam 250 launched in November 2017, we can retroactively gener...
2020-03-05 22:07:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Review backfilling has begun and we're starting with the biggest games on Steam. Backfilling means downloading all the reviews for a particular game so we can chart its entire performance history. Here's the top five biggest games on Steam based purely on number of reviews 2020-02-03 23:17:29 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, the new ranking for trending games is out now! This works a little differently to our other rankings, because whilst it still uses Steam reviews, it doesn't care whether they're positive or negative. We call this f...
2020-01-01 22:57:27 +0000 UTC View PostI'm really excited to be working on the Club 250 website. It's the same kind of excitement as when we first started the Steam 250 project just over two years ago, all over again. To that end, I'm releasing a new ranking tomorrow, which was going to be part of the new Club 250 website, but I've de...
2019-12-31 23:45:37 +0000 UTC View PostOn the new features front, we added USD prices across all rankings to give some idea of cost, even for non-US users. I wanted to take this further and make showing prices, tags and other things customizable in the filters menu but stopped myself getting carried away to focus on the new site, whic...
2019-11-09 11:38:10 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons!
As ever, thanks so much for your continued support. We've removed advertising this month, so Patreon is now the only way Steam 250 is supported. This is not a commitment to never allow advertising in the future, although I would love to be in that position, but for now the ads ...
2019-09-11 14:55:30 +0000 UTC View PostI feel responsible for providing regular updates, especially since several new members joined us recently, but feel guilty about not having much to share. Work is proceeding behind the scenes, but most of it is not visible. Some changes to Valve's security model have posed a few challenges recent...
2019-07-13 07:43:03 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to give you guys an update because I'm still hard at work on the site, even though there's nothing particularly interesting to share at this stage. I'm writing our infrastructure as code to create the services to support the new site. Things like web servers, databases, reverse proxies, ...
2019-05-06 09:41:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Let it never be said I don't deliver a few surprises from time to time; this month I bring you game trailers embedded in our new video player! Live on site right now, clicking any of the banner artwork in any ranking will launch the video player for that game's primary trailer. I...
2019-03-04 21:43:13 +0000 UTC View Post