Describe the game
For the one you can't name
Overview
Plain search matches what a game is called. This is for when you only remember what happened in it. From the Add Game screen, “Can't remember the name?” opens a single text box (the placeholder suggests “the one where you play a bald assassin…”) and a Find it button. While it works, the screen cycles through short “Thinking…” lines. The answer comes back as “This might be it” with the best match, or “Here's what it might be” with a few candidates. If nothing fits, it says so and suggests a different description. After five minutes it offers to keep waiting.
25.7 s
median time to name a game (90th percentile 68.8 s)
3.5 s
between status checks
4+
characters before Find it is enabled
How it works
- 1
Find it sends your description to a backend function, which creates a job and returns at once. The app then polls the job every 3.5 seconds.
- 2
A scheduled sweep picks up queued jobs and asks a language model to name the game. Only the text of your description is sent, with no account identifier, as the privacy policy says.
- 3
The model's candidate names are checked against Prysm's own catalog, so the answer is always a real game you can add, never an invented title.
- 4
Answers are cached. A repeat description is answered instantly and marked as coming from the cache.
Key decisions
A job and polling, not one request
Naming a game from a description takes a median of about 26 seconds and sometimes several minutes, longer than a backend function may run. A job that the app polls survives slow answers, app switches and retries. The cost is a less instant feel, which the cycling status lines soften.
Queued, cached and kept small
Model calls are the one part of Prysm that costs money per use. A sweep batches them, the cache answers repeats for free, and the feature does one thing. That keeps its cost predictable on a free plan.
Ground every answer in the catalog
A model will happily name a game that does not exist. Matching its guesses against the catalog means the screen only ever shows games you can open and add.