Valve Overhauls Steam Tags, Kills Off Dozens But Adds New Categories, Too

▤ Summary

Valve overhauled the Steam Tag system, removing dozens of legacy or problematic tags and introducing a set of new categories to improve discoverability. It removed tags such as Dungeons and Dragons, Lego, NSFW and others for reasons including copyright concerns or vagueness. Valve added new tags like Bullet Heaven, Organizing and Cleaning, Zoo, Animals, Wolves, Language Learning, and Desktop Companion, and renamed some tags (e.g., Clicker to Incremental, Conversation to Dialogue Heavy). The company says the changes aim to make the storefront easier to navigate and improve recommendations, though the edits represent only a small portion of Steam's 400+ tags.

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Valve Corporation

$50M to $100M