Well Dweller Tags: Steam Genre and User Tag List

Well Dweller Tags: Steam Genre and User Tag List

The Steam store page for AppID 3699590 lists four genres. Action covers the matchstick combat loop and the boss encounters. Adventure covers the metroidvania traversal between named locations and the quest progression that drives Glimmer toward the wicked queen. Indie covers the solo-developer credit, since Kyle Thompson is the creator of the title. RPG covers the trinket mix-and-match upgrade system and the ability-gating progression loop that expands the map as Glimmer rescues his siblings.

These four genres are the Steam-defined store categories, not the player-defined tag system. Steam genres are an editorial choice by the developer and publisher and they shape how the game is filtered on the store's category pages. The Steam genres section is therefore useful for store-side filtering and search, but it does not capture the player-defined tag vocabulary.

The Steam store page for AppID 3699590 lists six user tags. Metroidvania tags the ability-gating progression and the explorable map structure. Action-Adventure tags the combat plus traversal blend. Dark Fantasy tags the grim fairy-tale setting and the visual tone. Horror tags the dread cues around the bottom-of-the-well opening and the rotted kingdom framing. Action tags the moment-to-moment combat with the matchstick. Cute tags the art direction for Glimmer and the named cast, even in a dark setting.

Steam user tags are voted on by the Steam community and they read as the audience-side vocabulary for the title. Players who land on this page are usually trying to decide whether Well Dweller matches a taste profile they have already filtered on, so the user tag list is the most useful shopping signal on the tags page.

The four genres and the six user tags map onto two different store-side lists. Genres are a fixed Steam taxonomy that the developer chose when publishing AppID 3699590. User tags are a community-driven vocabulary that the Steam algorithm surfaces based on player votes. Both lists appear on the Well Dweller store page under separate headings, and both lists contribute to how Steam Discovery surfaces the game to other players.

Players searching for Well Dweller tags usually mean the user tag list, since the user tags carry the descriptive vocabulary. Search engines and the Steam store search index both treat user tags as a relevance signal, so a missing tag can change how easy the title is to discover next to other dark fairy-tale metroidvanias. The tag list on this page is the current canonical Steam state.

A reader who is unfamiliar with Steam tagging should treat the two lists as complementary. The genre list tells you where Steam files the title in its store taxonomy. The user tag list tells you how the player community describes the experience. A reader who wants to compare Well Dweller with another game should focus on the user tag list because the community votes are the same signal Steam Discovery uses to recommend similar titles.

A reader who wants to confirm the tag list for buying decisions should treat the Steam store page itself as the source of truth. The Steam store page for AppID 3699590 is the only source for both lists, and the tag count is small enough that this page can hold every confirmed entry. There are no additional confirmed tags beyond the four genres and six user tags above.

The Steam store page for AppID 3699590 does not list tags such as Roguelike, Platformer, Souls-like, or Survival. Those terms sometimes appear on adjacent indie metroidvania store pages, but they are not part of the confirmed Well Dweller tag set. Any tag that is not in the four-genre or six-user-tag lists above is unconfirmed and should be treated as Not announced.

The Steam store page also does not list a Linux genre entry, a Steam Deck verified badge, or a controller-native tag, so any of those tags would require a separate platform or verification step before they could appear on this page.