Genres

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Action	Stealth Action · Third-person Action

Adventure	Action-adventure · Graphic Adventure · Interactive Fiction · Interactive Movie · Kinetic Novel · Mystic · Roguelike · Sandbox Stealth · Text Adventure · Visual Novel

Arcade	Dance · Electro-mechanical · Pinball (arcade games) · Pinball (video games) · Platform · Racing · Shooter · Sport

Casual	Clicker

Fighting	2D Fighting · 3D Fighting · Beat 'em up · Boxing · Hack & Slash · Versus Fighting · Wrestling

Horror	Psychological · Survival

Mobile	Freemium · Social

Music	Dance · Rhythm · Singing

Online	MOBA · MMO · MMOCB · MMOCMS · MMOFPS · MMOLS · MMOR · MMORPG · MMORTS · MMOS · MMOSS · MUD

Party	Game Show · Tabletop · Trivia · Vocabulary

Platform	2D Platform · 3D Action Platform · 3D Platform · Metroidvania

Racing	Arcade · Futuristic · Kart · Simulation

RPG	Action RPG (Shooter RPG · Soulslike) · CORPG · Dungeon Crawler · Strategy RPG · Tactical RPG

Shooter	3D Shoot 'em up · First-person Shooter · Light Gun Shooter · Looter Shooter · Multi-directional Shooter · Rail Shooter · Run & Gun · Scrolling Shooter · Side-scrolling Shooter · Shoot 'em up · Tactical Shooter · Third-person Shooter · Vertical scrolling Shooter

Simulation	Business · City · Civic · Combat Flight · Combat Space · Dating · Driving · Flight · Life · Military · Open-ended · Railway Management · Social · Space · Sports · Submarine · Train · Trucking · Vehicle · Virtual Pet · World

Sports	Arcade · Association Football · Athletics · Badminton · Baseball · Basketball · Billiards · Bowling · Cricket · Cycling · Darts · Figure Skating · Fishing · Football · Golf · Hockey · Hunting · Ice Hockey · Minigolf · Pool · Rugby · Skating · Skateboarding · Snooker · Snowboarding · Table Tennis · Tennis · Vehicular Combat (List)

Strategy	4X · Card Battle · Real-time Strategy · Real-time Tactics · Tactical · Tower Defense · Turn-based Strategy · Turn-based Tactics

Visual Styles	Isometric style

Perspectives	First-person perspective · Isometric perspective · Third-person perspective · Top-down perspective

Other	Adult · Artistic · Casino · Early Access · Episodic · Eroge · Extended Trial · Fitness · Fortune-Telling · Free-to-Play · Gambling · Indie · Linear

List of Firsts in Gaming History · List of Gaming Pioneers · Non-linear

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