Steam gets huge tags overhaul for tailored recommendations and 'helping players identify the games that best fit their interests'
Valve added 17 tags and removed 28 legacy labels to make Steam recommendations more accurate, with over 400 tags still in use.
- Valve recently overhauled Steam's tagging system, adding 17 new tags and removing 28 to improve discoverability. These changes aim to help players identify games that best fit their interests and enhance store recommendations.
- Removed tags were often too subjective, such as 'Well-Written' and 'Masterpiece,' causing inconsistent application. Categories like 'NSFW' and 'Mature' overlapped significantly with more descriptive terms like 'Gore,' 'Violent,' and 'Sexual Content.'
- New additions include 'Bullet Heaven,' described as the 'opposite of Bullet Hell,' and 'Desktop Companion' for background utilities. 'Conversation' was renamed to 'Dialogue Heavy,' while tags like 'Dogs,' 'Foxes,' and 'Vampires' were made plural.
- Tags function as the foundation for Steam store hubs, allowing players to find games by genre, theme, and other contexts. Because players and moderators apply tags over time, a game's profile evolves to reflect actual user experience.
- In separate news, the Steam Controller was officially released recently ahead of the Steam Machine and Steam Frame. Both devices were delayed due to the ongoing RAM shortage crisis affecting hardware production.
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RPG Maker devs hurt the most by Steam tag changes
Earlier this week, Valve made an unexpected but far-reaching change to their tagging system. First they codified some neologisms like “Bullet Heaven” as official tags. Then they also removed some tags that were either supplanted by more mainstream tags. These mainstream tags included removing “Roguevania” since most people say “Metroidvania”, or meta tags typically involving […] Source
Steam gets huge tags overhaul for tailored recommendations and 'helping players identify the games that best fit their interests'
Valve has made some huge changes to Steam's discoverability feature by introducing new tags, removing some, and merging a bunch from the digital storefront.
Valve Streamlines Steam Store Tags List, Reveals Most Ubiquitous Tags
Valve's official tags in the Steam Store can be a helpful resource for narrowing down your search for new games, but by Valve's own admission, the list of tags has become somewhat bloated in recent years. In an effort to remedy this, Valve has revealed a rework of the current list of tags, with 17 new tags coming to Steam and 28 tags being removed. The full list is included below the break, but some of the new tag highlights include "Bullet Heav…
IDK About ‘Bullet Heaven,’ Steam
Yesterday Valve announced an update to Steam that added 17 new tags and removed 28 with the goal of “helping players identify the games that best fit their interests, and helping Steam generate appropriate recommendations.” Seems reasonable enough. But since I read the list of new tags—which includes relative no-brainers like “Organizing” and “Espionage,” as well as a couple, “Wuxia” and “Xianxia,” that are indicative of Steam’s growing Chinese …
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