SuperSearch — supercharge your search, your way

Site news · 2026-08-21

Search used to find two things: games with an achievement list, and gamertags. Everything else in the catalogue was invisible to it — DLC, bundles, alternate editions, community guides, hardware, studios. Not any more.

Nine kinds of result, in one search

Type once and SuperSearch answers with released games , unreleased games , DLC , bundles , editions , guides , hardware , companies and gamertags . Each one gets its own block on the results page, with a count, a collapse arrow, and its own click-sortable columns — sorting Bundles never disturbs Games.

It speaks abbreviation

AC finds Assassin's Creed. COD finds Call of Duty. RDR2 goes straight to Red Dead Redemption 2. We seeded 304 curated abbreviations and checked every single one against the live catalogue first.

It handles sequels on its own, too — ac2 , me2 , gta3 , re4 , bo6 all work without us storing a row for each. Franchises number their sequels inconsistently (it's Assassin's Creed II but Mass Effect 2 ), so SuperSearch quietly tries both.

Expansion is additive : a game genuinely called “AC” is still in the list. And when an abbreviation fires, the results page tells you so.

Abbreviations show on the game page

Every game now wears the shortcuts that find it, right under its name — in the same place as translated and renamed titles.

Ask it a question, not just a name

SuperSearch understands variables — type a thing, a comparison and a value straight into the search box:

achievements < 30 gamerscore > 1000 genre = rpg owned = no

Five variables — achievements , gamerscore , playtime , genre and owned — with the operators you would expect ( < > <= >= = != ). Stack them, and mix them with ordinary text.

Playtime is in hours , and a game you have never played counts as zero. So the one everybody wants:

genre = rpg playtime = 0 — every RPG you own and have never started .

The chips under the search bar drop a variable in for you, and SuperSearch says back exactly what it understood — so a typo shows up as a missing pill instead of quietly doing nothing. Short names work too: ach , gs , hours , own .

Your search, your way

The cog beside the search box opens 13 switches . Turn off what you never want to see and it disappears — and because a category that is off runs no query at all, narrowing SuperSearch makes it faster, not just tidier.

Settings are saved to your account , so they follow you to every device you sign in on.

It remembers where you have been

Click into an empty search box and you get your recent searches and the pages you viewed last — how many of each is yours to set, and either can be cleared or switched off. That history stays in your browser and never leaves it.

Also new

A wide search bar now sits at the top of the results page, so searching again never means going back to the sidebar. And the results page finally titles its own browser tab.

Missing an abbreviation you use? Tell us and we'll add it.