After 4 months of evenings and weekends, I just launched NEXTURN — a swipe-based game discovery tool: https://nexturn.games

Why I built it

Steam's "recommended for you" only ever showed me sequels of games I'd already finished. The fundamental problem: most recsys treat "already played" as "you'll like more like this" — which is often wrong.

NEXTURN gives you 3 zones to sort games into:

Love (★1-5 rating)

Interested (will play later)

Not for me (the key zone)

The third zone is what makes it different. You explicitly tell the engine what you don't want, and it propagates that signal across genres, themes, and game modes.

Stack

Next.js 16 (Turbopack canary) + React 19

Tailwind v4 + framer-motion (drag UX)

IGDB API for game data

Custom recommendation engine with MMR diversity reranking

All session state in localStorage (no DB, no signup)

Vercel hosting

Highlights

~1200 hand-curated titles across 17 genres

IGDB-powered global pool fallback

Generates a shareable image of your taste…