Impressive. I've never seen a tool with such terrible UX & UI. Wasted space, superfluous colors, massive gaps...

...Oh wait, that's Galaxy.

I do think that sometimes, but only sometimes, when you zoom in too much in. Focus on the abnormalities, you might find yourself in a twilight zone of extremities.

The outsider confirms the general rule... or something said similar by a more important or renowned figure.

Now, i'm not saying you guys, or at least the ones with examples in abundance, revel in fantasy but, from my perspective zooms in to own library i can confirm to others.

It is A Okay!

There's really nothing to worry 'bout :D

For example, have a look at my Shootas department. Not because all of those superior gaming secrets hidden, but because of the spot on delivery.

*1 image of 'shooter' part of library attached.

Ok, I'll just say it... I often have real trouble following what you're saying. Are you trying to tell me the tags are fine? Because they aren't, as already proven many times over. Yes, many games have proper tags, but many have wrong ones, most are missing some tags that would apply, and many tags are just vague nonsense.

As to your library... it's not even a GOG library you're showing me. What has that to do with anything?

Maybe I missed the whole point. But nevertheless, when i use galaxy and sort through my game library, with EA,Ubi and Epic integrations alongside the filter options work quite well. In general speaking, it seems to be working more than okay, but as you and others apparently discovered, the devil is in the details!
At least for where the store front and its myriad of games and applicable filters is concerned.

I think you missed the point of the discussion. We are talking about the tags as they are used for the GOG store and how they are for most games ((at least in my opinion) miss-used, inaccurate and unhelpful. When as a potential buyer you try find a game that may suit your preferences, when using tags you will more often than not have a list of games that doesn't fit the tag by any stretch of the mind, while some that should be included don't have the correct tags applied. It's a real issue if a store makes it hard for its customers to find things they might be interested in buying.

That being said, and to repeat what I wrote in a previous message, assigning genres/tags to a game is a difficult and somewhat subjective task, so there will never exist a perfect classification that everyone would agree on (but even objective tags like viewpoint [FPS, TPS, top-down] are used incorrectly...). However to try solving this issue, it would be great if there was a way to have user defined tags, or user-defined shareable collections of games. The sad thing being that the later one used to be a feature of GOG that has since then been removed.

Your game collection, in Galaxy or in the website, doesn't have this issue since they both allow user-defined tags.

not to be too nitpicky here, but if you want correct...

these are not viewpoints, but genres. FPS = First Person Shooter. TPS = Third Person Shooter. The viewpoints are either FP or TP (at a scratch you can use FPV of TPV).

A game like for example The Witness is First Person (the game is in full 3D view, and you see it from the perspective of the protagonist), but it is NOT a FPS, as you are not shooting anything. If you want it to be granular, you can call The Witness a FPP (First Person Puzzler)

edit - and just to be clear, a game do ot actually need to be in 3D to be First Person, that just means you see the action from the eyes of the protagonist (third person = outside the protagonist). there is justnot that many games that has 2D first person view, as it is difficlut to do, especially in a dynamic environment. What comes to mind, is for example most hidden object games, though people often dont think of them in relation to viewpoint.

The removal of the Mixes is still a really baffling decision – it was a really useful feature.

Gog's #2 issue (#1 being the DRM on the platform of course) is that the catalog needs a total redo, ground up -- that accounts for bundles, editions, etc. Part of that catalog redo would be the tags (there's no reason for 'genre' to be not just within tags). And the content of these tags should have at least some amount of direct audience interaction: suggesting/approving with moderation.

FFS!

Aha.

Somehow, somewhere, i'd expect that a studio who submits a game also accounts for providing a short game description and applicable tags.

Also, i can imagine the amount of work needed to check and correct tags is daunting to say the least.

I think that i can manage a large part of my library pretty okay with the tools provided. The assortment of filter, sort and group options are actually quite all-right. Without the need to rely on personal input. Steam actually does a worse job. If not i'd never had groups of games titled " Warhammer " or " Space above and beyond " for example. But i'm drifting here.

Guess we can all agree on the view that " everyone appreciates a " working as intended " instead of a " promises a lot but left me and 3 others with 6 children respectively "

You are absolutely correct, I should have used FP, and TP, and this is actually the tags we have (but it remains that they are often used incorrectly).

I can't help but wonder who makes and assign these tags. Some of them are similar to on another, too broad, or just erroneously assigned.

In spite of that, this one one of my lesser worries when it comes to GOG.

It has a clear impact on sales, you'd think they'd care enough to fix it! Breja mentioned in the thread-starter Warcraft and RTS... During the winter sale, I actually attempted to browse for games, I was in the mood for an RTS. But it was a useless search because I noticed things like that missing and whatnot. So I gave up. It'd been my first time "browsing" for a game in a long time, too.