Google Play's New Game Finder Uses Your 'Gamer DNA' to Recommend Games

Google announced a batch of Google Play updates on October 13. For players, the main one is a new Game Finder.

Game Finder and Gamer DNA

Google says Game Finder combines Play’s gaming data with its community of over 2 billion players. It’s built around Gamer DNA, which Google describes as “an analysis of how you play and preferences you’ve shared.” You can fine-tune it by naming games, genres and mechanics you like. Game pages can also show how players with similar Gamer DNA engage with a game, how many people you follow are playing it, AI-written review summaries, and why a game is trending.

Google doesn’t use the exact name “AI Game Finder.” It calls the feature Game Finder and puts it among its AI-powered discovery tools. Availability: it’s rolling out in English to US users first, with more markets “coming soon.”

More for players

• Game Playlists let you curate collections of games, with sharing coming later.
• Sprints are 48-hour micro-challenges for groups of two to five players, rolling out in all markets.
• Sidekick, Play’s in-game overlay, can now record 30-second Playbacks on select devices.
• Community Posts let you ask and answer questions on a game’s store page.
• PC games: Dave the Diver and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun are coming to Play, with cloud saves between Android and PC. Game Trials are expanding to PC.

Google also announced Ask Play app comparisons, Play in Gemini, and personal apps built with Google AI Studio that you can run on your own device without a developer account (rolling out first to select markets, including the US, for users 18 and over).

Source: Google, “New on Google Play”.