this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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This is from the Categories portion of the Steam home page. Flabergasted me and I had to snip it.

Do I just completely misunderstand what a Rogue-Like is?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, at best you could call it a roguelite because of the harsh death penalty, but even that’s a stretch. Seems Valve messed up its classification here, or maybe the artist got confused while labeling the picture.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I thought it might be a weird art thing too, but all of the games are listed under the category on the store page. It's definitely odd.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure it didn't even occur to them that the games in those images should be the genre that the image is for. I saw Control in rogue-likes.