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Steam has just released a new update to its tagging system, making finding games to add to your pile of shame backlog even easier.
Steam’s tagging system has come under a lot of fire over the last few years, with some users criticising it for being rather inaccurate.
Others, however, find the tags quite useful for discovering new hidden gems which would otherwise have gone under their radar.
There are pros and cons to it, but it’s safe to say that the system needed an update. And that’s exactly what Valve has done this week.
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“Today we've made some changes to the set of official store tags available on Steam, adding 17 new tags, removing 28, and merging/updating a handful of others,” reads a new blog post on Steam News.
The post adds that the changes were made “with the goal of helping players identify the games that best fit their interests, and helping Steam generate appropriate recommendations.”
Valve then lists out all of the new tags which have been added to Steam this week. The list includes some useful tags like “Bullet Heaven”, “Language Learning” and “Organizing”.
It’s also cool to see that “Wuxia” and “Xianxia” have been added as well, which I’m sure will fill up pretty quickly.
My favourite of the bunch, however, has to be the Capybaras tag. Now we can find more games like Capybara Simulator to check out.
Some new tags have also been created via the renaming or merging of existing ones. “Clicker” has now been renamed to “Incremental”, while “Conversation” has been renamed to “Dialogue Heavy”.
With the addition of these new tags, Steam has also removed some tags because “they no longer serve a good purpose for establishing connections between games or describing unique and useful elements of content in the game.”
The list includes things like “Blood”, “Kickstarter”, and “Well-Written” as tags that have been removed.
Interestingly, “Mature” and “NSFW” have also been removed. Steam has been criticised in the past for blocking games with mature themes from indie creators, such as the removal of Horses back in November 2025, and this may signify a deeper removal of related content on the platform.
Steam tags can be applied by game developers in the process of preparing for release, but they can also be used by users to help fill in gaps.
Sometimes there can be errors in assigning tags to games, which leads to situations like the “Immersive Sim” tag being filled with games like Supermarket Simulator, InZoi, and Train Sim World 6 (that’s not what immersive sim means).
If that happens, you can always report it to Valve or the game developer to get it removed.
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