BTW, a lot of the newer subgenre tags seem to have been added as part of the taxonomical revamp that formally rolled out in April 2021 as the ‘Category’ dropdown on the front page of the Steam store: The point of this? Firstly, we’re planning to specifically log Steam tag additions in the future, because it’s interesting. (Some surprising niche ones like Musou, alongside new subgenres like Boss Rush & on-topic crazes like Vikings. So we just fixed that - and here’s the 29 Steam tags added since late 2020/early 2021. We then realized that our Plus back-end was missing some recent tags, which we subdivide by ‘Genre, Trait, or Special’ classification to make them more browsable. “2D Platformer, 3D Fighter, Action Roguelike, Action RTS, Auto Battler, Automobile Sim, Boss Rush, Card Battler, Colony Sim, Combat Racing, Creature Collector, Deckbuilding, Escape Room, Farming, Farming Sim, Hero Shooter, Idler, Life Sim, Looter Shooter, Open World Survival Craft, Party Game, Political Sim, Precision Platformer, Roguelike Deckbuilder, Roguevania, Traditional Roguelike, Vehicular Combat.” You can see a lot of more specific and more consequential subgenres appeared in this timeframe. We went on a bit of a trek, and Wok (who makes a lot of Steam analysis tools on Github ) was kind enough to pass along his data on all Steam tags added since August 2019 (Pastebin link).
(People with wholesome games, go add the tag, if your community hasn’t already!) But it got us wondering - what other tags have been added recently that we haven’t spotted?
This was inspired by the fact that ‘Cozy’ & ‘Wholesome’ are now Steam tags. So we started looking into the recent history of Steam tags - which you can browse on Steam itself, or via SteamDB for released games, and search individually via the GameDiscoverCo Plus back end for unreleased Steam games by tag.
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