Video Game Genres

 

There are over 30 different genres of Video games - 

• Action - An action game is a video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges, including hand–eye coordination and reaction time. The genre includes a large variety of sub-genres, such as fighting games, shooter games, and platform games.

• Action-Adventure - The action-adventure genre is a video game hybrid genre that combines core elements from both the action game and adventure game genres.

• Adventure - An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media, literature, and film, encompassing a wide variety of literary genres

• Card Game - A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific.

• Casual - A casual game is a video game targeted at a mass market audience, as opposed to a hardcore game, which is targeted at hobbyist gamers. Casual games may exhibit any type of gameplay and genre. They generally involve simpler rules, shorter sessions, and require a less learned skill.

• City Builder  - A city-building game, or town-building game, is a genre of simulation video game where players act as the overall planner and leader of a city or town, looking down on it from above, and being responsible for its growth and management strategy. Players choose to build placement and city management features such as salaries and work priorities, and the city develops accordingly.

• Comedy  -  It should be obvious from the name itself but still to define it in simple words, those games whose purpose is the make people laugh and can be played casually.

• Dungeon Crawler - A dungeon crawl is a type of scenario in fantasy role-playing games in which heroes navigate a labyrinth environment (a "dungeon"), battling various monsters, avoiding traps, solving puzzles, and looting any treasure they may find.

• Exploration - The word exploration reminds everyone of the cartoon 'Dora the explorer' which makes it obvious that those games that involve exploring the map or the environment are Exploration games.

• Fighting - A fighting game, also known as a versus fighting game, is a genre of video game that involves combat between two or more players. Fighting game combat often features mechanics such as blocking, grappling, counter-attacking, and chaining attacks together into "combos". Characters generally engage in battle using hand-to-hand combat—often some form of martial arts.

• First-Person Shooter - First-person shooter (FPS) is a subgenre of shooter video games centered on gun and other weapon-based combat in a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action through the eyes of the protagonist and controlling the player character in a three-dimensional space.

• Horror - A horror game is a video game genre centered on horror fiction and typically designed to scare the player. Unlike most other video game genres, which are classified by their gameplay, horror games are nearly always based on narrative or visual presentation and use a variety of gameplay types.

• Indie - An indie game, short for an independent video game, is a video game typically created by individuals or smaller development teams without the financial and technical support of a large game publisher, in contrast to most AAA games.

• Narration - The narrative in games consists of the plot, sounds, music, atmosphere, dialogues, player choices, and, of course, gameplay. It creates the overall impression of a game and allows the player to feel like part of a story.

• Open World - An open-world game is typically defined as a game where players are free to explore a virtual world at their own pace. This can be contrasted with linear games, where players are confined to a specific path or story and must complete missions in a specific order. Open-world games often give players the freedom to choose how they want to play the game, and which missions they want to undertake.

• Party - Party video games are commonly designed as a collection of simple minigames, designed to be intuitive and easy to control and allow for competition between many players.

• Platformer - A platform game, commonly referred to as a “platformer,” is a style of video game where the player makes a character move through an environment with a series of action-based moves, like running, jumping, or swinging from ropes.

• Puzzle - Puzzle video games make up a broad genre of video games that emphasize puzzle solving. The types of puzzles can test problem-solving skills, including logic, pattern recognition, sequence solving, spatial recognition, and word completion.

• RPG - A role-playing game (RPG) is a game in which each participant assumes the role of a character, generally in a fantasy or science fiction setting, that can interact within the game's imaginary world.

• Racing - Racing games are a video game genre in which the player participates in a racing competition. They may be based on anything from real-world racing leagues to fantastical settings. They are distributed along a spectrum between more realistic racing simulations and more fantastical arcade-style racing games.

• Retro - Retrogaming, also known as classic gaming and old-school gaming, is the current playing and collection of obsolete personal computers, consoles, and video games.

• Rogue-Lite - A subgenre of roguelikes that has most of the game design philosophies of roguelikes but also has at least one progression element that persists after failure.

• Shooter - Shooter video games or shooters are a subgenre of action video games where the focus is almost entirely on the defeat of the character's enemies using the weapons given to the player. Usually, these weapons are firearms or some other long-range weapons and can be used in combination with other tools such as grenades for indirect offense, armor for additional defense, or accessories such as telescopic sights to modify the behavior of the weapons. A common resource found in many shooter games is ammunition, armor or health, or upgrades that augment the player character's weapons.

• Simulation - Simulation games are a genre of games that are designed to mimic activities you'd see in the real world. The purpose of the game may be to teach you something. The name itself if enough to give you an overview of the game, for example - car mechanic simulator, flight simulator, submarine simulator, train simulator, and truck simulator.

• Space - Those games that have space as their game environment can be considered space video games. Eve online can be an example of this genre.

• Sports - A sports video game is a video game that simulates the practice of sports. Most sports have been recreated with a game, including team sports, track and field, extreme sports, and combat sports. FIFA 22 is an example of this genre.

• Stealth - A stealth game is a type of video game in which the player primarily uses stealth to avoid or overcome opponents. Games in the genre typically allow the player to remain undetected by hiding, sneaking, or using disguises. A game like Hitman 3 can be considered to exemplify this genre.

• Strategy - Strategy is a major video game genre that emphasizes thinking and planning over direct instant action in order to achieve victory.

• Survival - Survival games are a subgenre of action video games, which are usually set in hostile, intense, open-world environments. Players generally start with minimal equipment and are required to survive as long as possible by crafting tools, weapons, shelters, and collecting resources.

• Tower Defense - Tower defense is seen as a subgenre of real-time strategy video games, due to its real-time origins, even though many modern tower defense games include aspects of turn-based strategy. Strategic choice and positioning of defensive elements is an essential strategy of the genre. Clash of Clans is the perfect example of this genre.

• Turn-Based - A turn-based strategy (TBS) game is a strategy game (usually some type of wargame, especially a strategic-level wargame) where players take turns when playing. This is distinguished from real-time strategy (RTS), in which all players play simultaneously.