Steam Game Finder

A Java web application for discovering and browsing video games using data imported from Steam.

Author

Isaac Ericson

Features

• Browse a large game library (125,000+ games)
• Netflix-style homepage with category rows (Popular, Free to Play, Action, RPG, and more)
• Dedicated category pages with infinite scroll
• Free-text search
• Detailed game info page and modal, including a screenshot carousel
• Save games to a session-based "My List"
• Optional adult content filtering

Built With

• Java
• Jakarta EE
• JSP
• Servlets
• Maven
• Apache Tomcat
• MySQL

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Java 21+
• Apache Tomcat 11
• MySQL 8+
• Maven

Installation

1. Clone the repository.
2. Download games.csv from the Releases page and place it in src/main/resources/.
3. Open the project in NetBeans.
4. Make sure MySQL is running locally. Defaults to user root, password admin on localhost:3306. If your MySQL configuration is different, either edit the default values in DatabaseConnection.java or provide db.url, db.user, and db.password as Tomcat VM options.
5. Run the project on Tomcat. The database, tables, and game data are created automatically on first startup.

Screenshots

Homepage, with an empty and a populated My List:

Category page, browsing the Indie tag:

Game details, for Terraria:

Search, by game name and by tags: