A neat search engine that finds similar games

[MrFlibble]

Just found this, it seems quite functional and handy:
http://gamedipper.com/

Like you'd expect, you enter a title and it brings up a list of games that supposedly have at least a certain degree of similarity to your query.

[leilei]

"Vampire Savior" matches nothing because there's nothing like it. Similarily, "Deus Ex" has no results

I guess judging by the web graphics, it only does similarities for modern console action games ("Halo" gets matches), in that case, EVERYTHING IS THE SAME

[MrFlibble]

"Vampire Savior" matches nothing because there's nothing like it. Similarily, "Deus Ex" has no results

Here are the results for Deus Ex:
http://gamedipper.com/game/deus-ex

BTW. the site uses roughly the same page naming conventions as MobyGames, so you can simply type the title in that format into the address bar instead of searching (the search engine requires JavaScript to be turned on).

Anyway, keep in mind that the suggestions are based on automated statistical analysis of keywords found in reviews on gaming websites (as the info page suggests), so there are bound to be inaccuracies and outright errors there. But the method itself is quite interesting, and personally I can't say that the results are completely useless.

[MrFlibble]

Recently a member of the site's development team posted the following response in another forum in the thread about the engine:

First of all thanks for finding out about our site and thanks for some feedback.

We started this project very recently and trying to improve in any possible way.

The main thing is: site is fully automatic, no manual entries (yet) are made to the similar game lists. All similar games are generated from keywords, which we extract from reviews. By now we only depend on keywords and gernes.
The results actually are way better than we expected in the first place. Of course they are far from "very good".

Also the description texts and screenshots are automatically generated from Wikipedia / Google image search. So errors are not a rare thing

So far the best feature in this project to me personally is keyword search. If I like zombie killing, I can search kill zombies. These results are even quite good, if compared to the similar game lists This is a approach to search by things you want to do in a game or what theme/time/whatever game is about, not so much thinking about gernes or something like that.

Next step is to add some user generated content, allow them to alter the game lists, so we can enliminate some crazy wrong results.

And indeed, the keyword search (you can type as many keywords as you want, just separate them with hyphens) does look promising:
http://gamedipper.com/keyword/greek-mythology
http://gamedipper.com/keyword/fantasy-strategy