Hi. I just published a recommendation for The Longing. However, I was trying to add it in an "unlisted" way so that someone more involved with the group could "approve" it. Didn't find a way to do it. Does anyone understand how "unlisted lists" work? If I add a recommendation to an unlisted list does it hide it?

Oh, it only shows how involved I am nowadays... 😅 I did mean, however, they probably have a list of reviewers that'll receive embargo keys just before the official release. Contacting them has a potential of putting us on that list so we could wait instead of reviewing the incomplete game. It's just my opinion, though - no longer active in any Linux groups and it seems I shouldn't even try to advice because I introduce more chaos than positive outcomes (just to make that clear - I still use exclusively Linux, just virtually no time to write posts).

Honestly, I'd try to contact the publisher and ask them to send the curator offer for full game. It's not what we normally do (it did some time ago when I was more active) but if people reach for full game based on your demo review and it turns out going downhill from where the demo ends it'll just look bad.

Oh, crap. I should've read that before...! :O Sorry, I was using it for quite a while and liked it so when it was lying unclaimed for 2 weeks I just took it upon me to write a review and had to make sure Steam version works without issues. It didn't even occur to me we might not want to review it here. Should I take it down? (or did someone already?) I posted a review on Linux Users Exclusively as well where, I think, it fits okay.

Yet another approach would be to use an external ranking, e.g. https://steam250.com/hidden_gems - posting just to add to the discussion, though. I can't decide if I like it or not, for now I'm still in favor of voting.

How about we go more democratic about it? We don't get many offers at this moment, it's perfectly possible to create a secret thread per game and explain why you think it should be curated by HLG and other admins could yay or nay it. Example (imagine it's a separate thread):

Sorry for budging in without a recommendation removal but just wanted to say I hope Steam will develop better curating tools in the near future so that we could just "unpublish" a review with a comment on why we did that instead of resorting to unparsable text-in-a-forum-post solutions.