Steam shows a game’s tags as one flat list: a genre, a mechanic, a setting and a camera angle sit side by side and look the same. Here every tag has one place. Each group answers one question about a game, and inside a group tags run from general to specific.
Version 1.0 · October 13, 2026431 tags · 10 groupsWhat changed
What kind of game it is: pillar, then genre, then subgenre
What the player does and which systems the game has
Where, when and what about
How the story is told and who the hero is
How the game feels
How it is drawn
How the game is shown on screen
How many people play and how
18+ and violence labels
Not about the game itself: business model, product type, player verdicts, hardware, software
The tree changes when Steam adds a tag or when a tag turns out to sit in the wrong place. Every change gets a new version, and this list says what it was.
First version. 431 tags · 10 groups
The number next to a tag is how many games on Steam carry it now. Tag names are Steam’s own and stay in English. Where the tags come from and how far the data reaches is in Help · Data.
