Your game Genre classifications suck. Too broad.

[Fishpoke]

Be more specific and I dont want to see an FPS in the same category as a hack and slash RPG... I dont want to go browse RPG games and see a Tom Clancy's game at the top of the list. Sorry that IS NOT AN RPG. its a F'n FPS. Period.

Pull your heads out of your asses valve.

[Sovietball]

They dont make the tags though.

[Tito Shivan]

Genres are meant to be generic.They always were
It's the publishers who set the category of their games.
Lines between genres are blurred.
For everything else, there's tags.

[Joke]

Problem is that the publishers want their games/prgrams to be visible as much as possible, so they add as many categories they can to their titles.
This makes the non-game categories especially useless for finding things.

I would vote to have Steam set the categories instead.

[MAriskaDeville]

The software section of steam is just as bad as the games sections regards to catagories - and I agree steam really need to make browsing the catalogue a more efficient and enjoyable experience.

[Start_Running]

That's mkind of a problem. Genre's and categories simply don't work very well for games. Movies and bookes can be defined by their aim, theme and aesthetics.

Games, can be categorized by aim, theme, aesthetics, interface and mechanics. And more than any other medium, games allow for rather free form mixing of various genres.

Movies and literature are restricted by the need for cohrerent narrative. Games. Not so much. So a game can touch on as many as ten different categories quite easily.