I checked tag for 'point and click adventure' – only one one of these games in the main carousel was an actual point and click adventure (arguably two). There were some puzzle adventures, and some games with a point and click interface, but only two were both.
The same happened when I tried to find games on the tag pages for RPG and Stealth – I got games only vaguely related to stealth and RPG concepts and not actual stealth and RPG focused games.
I straight up would prefer to be taken to a regular search page with a tag filter than this crap.
Posted by shino1
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What you think is a point and click game could be different from what someone else thinks is a point and click game.
And that is why User-Defined tags aren’t great. I wouldn’t say completely useless, but definitely not great.
It does result in things being jokingly tagged, such as kids games being tagged psychological horror (cause they are lol), or some popular release being tagged as Anime because hurhur or some shit.
And then there is the issue of generic words like singleplayer don’t really help much.
I’m reminded of this one time I was looking at slingshots on amazon, and on the store page for a slingshot was a section for suggested items similar to what I was looking at.
Slingshot, slingshot, slingshot, slingshot bikini, slingshot…wait a minute.
Point is the computer can only go off the words humans apply to a product and while you and I know a slingshot bikini isn’t what I was looking for, the computer saw that some human labeled it a slingshot and presented it to me.
Still glad I bought it though, really shows off my ass… but on the other hand doesn’t do anything to support my balls.
In summary: Yes. It’s not perfect. It’ll never be perfect.