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This post contains a ranking of Steam games, based on a score intended to favor "hidden gems". It is a follow-up of a previous ranking, one week after the Steam summer sales have started. The Python source code can be found on Github.

To reproduce the results, use data downloaded on June 30 with alpha ~ 10^(6.24), which arises from an optimization with 1 example of "hidden gem":

• Contradiction - the all-video murder mystery adventure (appID=373390)

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If you arrived here from a PC Gamer article, I suggest you check the Python source code and one of these rankings:

• original ranking, featured on PC Gamer, based on data downloaded prior to the Steam summer sales.
• updated ranking, using data from June 30, a week after the Steam summer sales have started.

Initially, I presented on this Gist page a ranking using playtime as popularity measure. However, as I have kept working on the code, I have found out this ranking likely suffered from a bug. The bug, which is now fixed, resulted in a ranking very similar to the ranking using players total as popularity measure. Thankfully, the ranking featured in the PC Gamer article is bug-free sinc