Privacy

whattoplay is run by entro314. For anything about your data, write to privacy@entro314.com.

With your permission (a pasted profile link or signing in through Steam) we read, through the official Steam Web API: your Steam ID, display name and avatar, the games you own, your playtime (total, last two weeks and on Steam Deck) and when you last played each game. Your profile's Game details must be public for Steam to share this.

• Pasted profile link, no sign-in: your library is held for 24 hours to answer your questions, then deleted automatically. Nothing is saved to our database. You can forget it sooner from Settings.
• Signed in through Steam: your Steam ID, display name, avatar, owned games with playtime, the answers you give, the picks we showed you and your reactions to them. We keep these until you delete your account in Settings.
• Friends: when you play with friends, we read the list of games each chosen friend owns (only if their profile is public) and keep that list for 24 hours. We never store your friends' playtime or add them to our database.
• Game information (titles, tags, reviews, lengths) comes from Steam and IGDB and is shared by everyone; it contains nothing about you.

To suggest games from your library: we use your play history to understand your taste, and your reactions so we stop suggesting games you turned down.

Improving suggestions for everyone. We may combine signed-in players' play history and reactions (for example "people who finished X also enjoyed Y") and look at aggregate usage. This is on by default and you can switch it off at any time in Settings; your data is then left out from that point on.

• Cloudflare runs the website and background jobs.
• CapyDB stores the database and temporary data on servers in Helsinki, Finland (EU).
• Anthropic (Claude) chooses and explains picks. For each request it receives a summary of your taste (favourite and avoided tags, hours by tier), your answers (including any note you type), and a shortlist of your games with their playtime. It does not receive your Steam ID or name.
• Valve (Steam) and IGDB (Twitch) are the sources of library and game data.

We set two cookies, both needed for the site to work and neither used for tracking: wtp_session keeps you signed in (30 days), and wtp_anon links your browser to a pasted-link import (24 hours). There is no advertising or analytics tracking.

You can delete your account and everything stored about you from Settings at any time, and switch off the use of your history for everyone's suggestions. You can also ask us for a copy of your data, to correct it, or to object to or restrict how we use it, by writing to privacy@entro314.com. If you think we handle your data wrongly, you can complain to your data protection authority.