With roughly 70 new games released daily on Steam, finding promising titles has become a significant hurdle for both developers and players. Now Polygon is stepping in with Wishlister, a weekly newsletter designed to surface upcoming PC games worth adding to your wishlist.
The challenge of discoverability pervades the video game industry. According to data from SteamDB, an average of 70 new games hit Steam every day. The problem extends beyond launch-day obscurity—finding promising upcoming games proves difficult as well.
Polygon says it has a natural advantage in this space, learning about new titles continuously to produce previews of the games that catch its editors’ eyes. Still, the outlet felt there was more it could do—so it built Wishlister.
The newsletter catalogs upcoming PC games you can add to your Steam wishlist immediately. Each week, Polygon rounds up six promising titles and delivers them directly to subscribers’ inboxes, complete with direct links to every game’s Steam page. The model is simple: no buying, no commitment—just saving games for later.
Polygon emphasizes that Wishlister deliberately avoids a single genre focus. Rather than offering lists of the biggest open-world RPGs players likely already know about, the newsletter instead features “a smattering of genre-spanning games that rarely look alike,” celebrating how eclectic video games are.
We’ve created it as a celebration of how eclectic video games are. We won’t just give you a list of the biggest open-world RPGs that you likely already know about, but a smattering of genre-spanning games that rarely look alike.
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Since launching Wishlister in September, subscribers have already been introduced to titles such as Acornia: Mirror World, the card-collecting bakery sim from developer Spalashteam; Cyberlich and the Death Cult of Labor, a Doom-inspired corporate satire; and Vivarium, a cozy game styled after Studio Ghibli films.
To use Wishlister, simply head to any featured game’s page, click the “Add to your wishlist” button on Steam, and you’re set. The newsletter is free to subscribe to, with no obligation—subscribers can unsubscribe at any time.
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