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What Should I Play?

For when you’re paralysed by your own Steam library.

For when you’re paralysed by your own Steam library.

Tap the big button. No accounts, no sign-up.

Sample outputs from What Should I Play?

A slice of what this picker might return. The full pool is much larger — tap the picker for a random one.

  • Hades
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
  • Red Dead Redemption 2
  • Stardew Valley
  • Disco Elysium
  • Celeste
  • Outer Wilds
  • Slay the Spire
  • Hollow Knight
  • Elden Ring
  • Baldur’s Gate 3
  • Cyberpunk 2077

When to use What Should I Play?

  • Squad night when nobody wants to be the one who picks the next what should i play? — hand it to the tool.
  • Kill time between matches — a fresh what should i play? keeps the session moving.
  • Content creators sourcing "I let What Should I Play? decide" videos for a stream or short.

How the picker works

What Should I Play? runs entirely in your browser — no servers, no accounts, no data sent anywhere. Each pick uses your browser's built-in cryptographic random-number generator (window.crypto.getRandomValues), which is uniformly distributed across the option pool.

The pool for this picker: 20 curated options. Every option has an equal probability of being selected on any given pick (about 5.00% per option).

Picker-kind picks return a single random option from the pool. If you add your own options, they're weighted equally alongside the built-in set.

If you want a deliberately weighted pick (favouring some options over others), the picker isn't the right tool — try structuring the choice as a wheel with duplicated entries, or split into two picks (category first, then item within category).

Related pickers + when to prefer each

What Should I Play? is one of several related pickers on the site. The rest of this cluster covers adjacent decisions:

Random Multiplayer Game Picker — the closest neighbour when this picker isn't quite the right fit.

Gaming Challenge Generator — the closest neighbour when this picker isn't quite the right fit.

Random Loadout Generator — the closest neighbour when this picker isn't quite the right fit.

All picks are independent — running one picker doesn't influence the others.

About this category

Gaming decisions are the fastest to bike-shed. A 4-person Fortnite squad can spend 20 minutes deciding drop location before a match. A picker collapses that to a coin-flip.

The category covers loadouts, dares, challenges, difficulty selection, weapon rolls, and next-game picks — anything where "we'll just do a random one" is the honest answer.

FAQ

How is the game chosen?

Every click picks randomly from a curated list of single-player games we’d genuinely recommend. The picker is weighted so each game is equally likely.

Can I see only games on a specific platform?

Not yet — Phase 1 keeps it deliberately simple. Platform and genre filters are on the roadmap.

Is the list updated?

Yes. We refresh the list periodically and add new releases as they land.

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