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I think this would help people find more games like Spiritfarer if you can cut through the obligatory noise generated for the big AAA titles.

Imagine if you had the dataset to say "remove every reviewer who ranked God of War above Spiritfarer" you would probably be left with an amazing set of recommendations.

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At that point, is it different from a general recommendation engine of users who like what you liked also liked X? [A thing which I also struggle with because I can never search based off of specific qualities no matter how many tags I search and exclude in Steam...]

Yes. It would be an order of magnitude more accurate. Current recommendation engines currently have account for lots and lots of false positives and are generally constrained to shared product tags.

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