I think it's great that a person can discover new games that are similar to what they already like, and speedrun them and all that. Every game is unique so I also completely understand underpopulated

But as a user looking for a genre or a user who just submitted a game and adding genres to their specific game, there's so many genres that are unnecessarily listed, or rather are spelled slightly different, it's rather a chore.

I don't have any authority or ability to change anything, so I politely request anyone to consider cleaning up the genres, and/or perhaps making it so while adding genres to a game, suggestions pop up in a window, like an auto-complete for convenience.

I'm sorry if this is read as somewhat condescending or similar, I'm not completely familiar with the current culture of this website. <3

I was more pointing out the fact that there's so much overlapping and literally the same genre. You're allowed to put add multiple genres to one game. As well as the fact there's 6 "run-and-gun" genre"s", and 6 "shoot 'em up" genre"s"

An example being the list of "2D" games. It would be as simple as making "2D" the only genre related to the concept of "2D", instead of having more specifications along with "2D". Instead of having: "2-D 2D 2D action 2D Fighter 2D Platform 2D Platformer 2D side scrolling platform game 2D sidescrolling platformer 2D sidescrolling run-and-gun platformer 2D-Fighter"

You could tag a game as "2D", as well as "Platformer" and also "run-and-gun" - that would exterminate most of the clutter.