'Note that tags and their relative weights may change over time as members of the community apply them to your game,' it adds, though I doubt this feature was built with a veritable tag bombing in mind.

'This allows the community to help mark up games with the terms, themes, and genres that help describe the game to others.' 'Tags can be applied to a game by the developer, by players with non-limited accounts, and by Steam moderators,' the Steam guide reads. That doesn't mean Steam's algorithm will make those tags visible to others, but with enough submissions users can theoretically brute force write-in tags onto a game's top 20, and that might be easier to pull off when a game's user tag activity is low on account of that game being unreleased. Transphobic and transphobia, the tags featured in the aforementioned viral tweet, obviously are not in the tag library, but users can basically add whatever custom tags they want. Psychological horror is an obvious one capitalism and World War II are under themes and moods villain protagonist is listed as a feature and NSFW is a rating.

It's worth noting that the five tags I found are part of Steam's official tag library. As the official Steamworks documentation explains, Steam prioritizes a game's top five tags but can account for up to 20, and Valve encourages developers to add plenty of relevant tags to make their game more visible to features like store filters, search results, and recommendations.

To the surprise of no one, tags like these have seemingly been (repeatedly) removed by the folks in charge of Hogwarts Legacy's Steam page. However, I didn't see either of these tags in the Steam page snapshots available on the Wayback Machine. I was alerted to this trend by a viral tweet from the 'Trans People Getting Common Ws' Twitter account, which includes a screenshot showing the 'transphobic' and 'transphobia' tags attached to the game.

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