Wuxia, desktop companion, cleaning, and capybaras all also got official Steam tags. Yes! Hahaha, yes. I'm in full-on sickos.jpg mode today with the announcement of 17 new tags being added to the Steam store, with the very first entry on the list canonizing the name for what has become one of the most popular PC game genres in recent years. That's right: the genre birthed by Vampire Survivors is, according to Valve, officially Bullet Heaven. "The opposite of Bullet Hell; Focus on upgrades while automatically attacking hordes of enemies," describes Valve, in a completely uncontroversial move that will surely upset no one at all. Here's the fancy new tag page on the store, if you'd like to browse through the top charts entries like Megabonk, Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor and Soulstone Survivors. The attempt to put a definitive name on this style of minimal-input shooter has perhaps been trending towards bullet heaven for a while now; there have been multiple "Bullet Heaven Festivals" on Steam, with the most recent in December including a poll asking Valve for formal recognition of the term. I guess it worked. Either that, or someone at Valve read my 2024 article on bullet hell FPS Luna Abyss and found my aside about the bullet heaven convincing. While bullet heaven may have been the trending favorite, it certainly wasn't a shoo-in—you'll note from just a couple of the popular games I named above that tossing "Survivor" or "Survivors" into a game's name was extremely common shorthand for "yeah we made a game just like Vampire Survivors," particularly in 2023 and 2024. Now that the trend has subsided at least a little bit I don't know that we'll see a wave of games with Heaven in the title, though that would be a funny outcome. If there's a definitive loser here, I think we can all agree that it's PC Gamer's Robin Valentine, who last year tried to determine the best name for the genre and threw his weight behind "survivor" rather than bullet heaven, rating them 4/5 a