Sifter for Steam

About

Know what you're getting into before you buy.

Sifter overlays two scores directly onto Steam:

• Design Risk (0–100) — how predatory a game's monetisation and engagement design is. Lower is better. It weighs loot boxes, gacha, pay-to-win, battle passes, energy systems and FOMO events by how much harm they actually do — a cosmetic-only store is treated very differently from pay-for-power.

• Joy Index (0–100) — genuine enjoyment: real player-review sentiment, minus a design-risk penalty. Higher is better.

On a game's store page you get a full card with the verdict and the top contributing factors. On search, category, wishlist and "more like this" pages, every game gets a compact R · J badge — so the scores follow you as you browse.

It uses the exact same scoring engine as the Sifter web app, so a game's score is identical everywhere. Scores are computed from Steam's own public store data and, for high-traffic games, hand-verified.

Private by design: no account, no sign-in, and nothing about you is collected or sent anywhere. The only data stored is a local cache of game scores, in your browser.

Learn more and score your whole Steam library at https://siftergames.com