Overview
- Valve updated the Steam store’s official tags with 17 additions, 28 removals, and several merges and renames, and the changes are now live across storefront pages.
- A new genre label, Bullet Heaven, defines Vampire Survivors–style games that auto‑attack hordes while you chase upgrades, with a store page featuring titles like Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor and Megabonk.
- Broad or subjective labels such as NSFW, Mature, Masterpiece, and Cult Classic were removed in favor of clearer options like Gore, Sexual Content, and Violent, and IP‑specific tags like LEGO, Dungeons & Dragons, and Warhammer 40K were dropped.
- New additions also recognize current trends, including cozy and idle play (Desktop Companion, Organizing, Cleaning, Decorating), Chinese fantasy genres (Wuxia, Xianxia), and animal tags such as Capybaras and Wolves.
- Valve says the goal is better discovery and recommendations, and usage data shows Singleplayer is the most‑applied tag at roughly 98,000 games, underscoring how these changes could affect what players see and how developers position their titles.