Overall the new discovery queue feels like a downgrade.

Only good thing about it is the fast switching between games.

The bad:

Without video autoplay you get almost no information about the game. The video thumbnail usually containing the name of game, is hardly usefull.

The video "preview" which happens at the start feels broken due to lack of sound. Especially when autoplay is disabled and you start by manually clicking play. Manually clicking to play video should start playing the video (or buffering it if network speed isn't good enough), it should not use the video "preview".

Third major problem is that the videos often contain animated cinematic trailer which again provides very little information about the game itself. Screenshots are often more useful to get the feeling what the game is about.

Maybe you could introduce 2d navigation, keep the left to right for switching between games, but use the up/down direction for flipping between screenshots. For giving a preview of rest of screnshots before opening them there could be a vertical cariousel. Or small list of thumbnails on the left side of currently opened screenshot/video, similar to one that's currently placed horizontally in games store page.


Annoying aspect of new discovery queue is that's too easy to accidentally close by clicking above/bellow main content. And if you accidentally close the discoveryqueu, you need to reopen it start the queue from start going through all the games you already viewed. Please make it harder to accidentally close the discovery queue by mouse misclicks, and remember the progress so that if gets accidentally closed you can restart from the position you left.


Some games, like the upcoming Elden ring expansion, doesn't even have any videos. For those the new discovery queue is even more useless. All you see is more or less just the name of game 3 times, once as regular text, second time in the tiny game cover art on top right corner, and third time a bigger version of cover art in the central area which would normally contain the video.