Valve stuck its oar in the tides of history yesterday, performing a spring clean of Steam's user-tagging system that added 17 new tags and removed 28 old ones. Most importantly, of course, it finally settled the debate as to what the hell we all call the "Vampire Survivors-like" genre, but it also notably excised the "RPGMaker" tag, which players have long stuck on games made using RPG Maker dev tools or that look like they were made using those tools.
And, strangely enough, RPG Maker devs seem pretty happy about it.
Not everyone is psyched, of course—"why would you remove rpgmaker are you fucking insane" lamented one dev on Bluesky in the wake of Steam's update—but visit hubs of RPG Maker development and you'll mostly find devs feeling very sanguine about the whole thing.
"To be honest I think [the RPGMaker tag] was probably doing more harm than good," wrote one RPG Maker MZ dev on Read Entire Article
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