Steam's NSFW and Mature tags ditched by Valve in favour of "more descriptive" ones like Sexual Content and Gore, as part of wider revamp
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Key Points:
- Valve has updated Steam's game tags, adding 17 new tags, removing 28, and merging or updating several others to improve genre and theme categorization for better game discovery and recommendations.
- New tags include Bullet Heaven, Samurai, Poker, and distinct categories for housework-based games: Organizing, Cleaning, and Decorating, as well as Chinese fantasy genres Wuxia and Xianxia.
- The NSFW and Mature tags have been removed due to overlap with more specific tags like Gore, Violent, and Sexual Content, potentially affecting the visibility of adult games on Steam.
- Several subjective or rarely used tags, including Masterpiece, intellectual property-specific tags (e.g., LEGO, Warhammer 40K), and others like Drama, America, Blood, Illuminati, and Roguevania, have been eliminated.
- The tag "Pool" has been renamed to "Billiards" to more accurately represent cue stick games, correcting previous misuse of the tag for games featuring swimming pools.