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List Of Game Genres
This list contains types of games. Main types Party games * Conversation games * Drinking games * Guessing games * Singing games * Power games Tabletop games * Board games * Card games * Dice games * Miniature games * Pencil-and-paper games * Tile-based games * Role-playing games * Skill games * Carrom Boards * Strategy games * Deck-building games * Eurogames * Amerigame * Cooperative games Video games Technology * Alternate reality game * Arcade games * Console games * Handheld console games * Handheld electronic game * Mobile games * PC games Generation/type * Action-adventure games * Adventure games * Escape room games * Fighting games * First person shooter games * Third person shooter games * Multiplayer online battle arena games * Platforming games * Real-time strategy games * Rhythm games * Role-playing video games * Simulation Games * Sports games * Casual games * Browser games * Minigames Others * Chance games * Educational games * Play-by-m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Games
A game is a Structure, structured type of play (activity), play usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an Educational game, educational tool. Many games are also considered to be Work (human activity), work (such as professional players of Spectator sport, spectator sports or Esports, video games) or art (such as games involving an artistic layout such as mahjong, Solitaire (game), solitaire, or some video games). Games have a wide range of occasions, reflecting both the generality of its concept and the variety of its play. Games are sometimes played purely for enjoyment, sometimes for achievement or reward as well. They can be played alone, in teams, or online; by amateurs or by professionals. The players may have an audience of non-players, such as when people are entertained by watching a World Chess Championship, chess championship. On the other hand, players in a game may constitute their own audience as they take their turn to play. Often, part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurogame
A Eurogame, also called a German-style board game, German game, or Euro-style game (generally just referred to as board games in Europe), is a class of tabletop games that generally feature indirect player interaction, lack player elimination, and provide multiple ways to score points. Eurogames are sometimes contrasted with American-style board games, which generally involve more luck, conflict, and drama. They are usually less abstract than chess or Go, but more abstract than wargames. Likewise, they generally require more thought and planning than party games such as '' Pictionary'' or ''Trivial Pursuit''. History Due in part to postwar aversion to products which glorified conflict, the 3M series of strategy and economic games, including ''Acquire'', became popular in Germany. They offered a style of gameplay without direct conflict or warfare and led the way for designs that focused on resource management and competitive strategy through more peaceful means. Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fighting Game
The fighting game video game genre, genre involves combat between multiple characters, often (but not limited to) one-on-one battles. Fighting game combat often features mechanics such as Blocking (martial arts), blocking, grappling, counter-attacking, and chaining attacks together into "Combo (video games), combos". Characters generally engage hand-to-hand combat, often with martial arts, but some may include weaponry. Battles are usually set in a fixed-size arena along a two-dimensional Plane (mathematics), plane, where characters navigate the plane horizontally by walking or dashing, and vertically by jumping. Some games allow limited movement in 3D space, such as ''Tekken (video game), Tekken'' and Soulblade while some are set in fully three-dimensional environments without restricting characters' movement, such as Power Stone (video game), ''Power Stone'' and ''Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm''; these are sometimes referred to as "3D arena" fighting games. The fighting game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escape Room Video Game
An escape room video game, also known as escape the room, room escape, or escape game, is a Computer and video game genres, subgenre of point-and-click adventure game which requires a player to escape from imprisonment by exploiting their surroundings. The room usually consists of a locked door, objects to manipulate, and hidden clues or secret compartments. The player must use the objects to interact with other items in the room to reveal a way to escape. Escape the room games were born out of freeware browser games created in Adobe Flash, but have since become most popular as mobile games for iOS and Android (operating system), Android. Some examples include ''Crimson Room'', ''Viridian Room'', ''MOTAS'', and ''Droom'' (playable until mid-2012). The popularity of these online games has led to the development of escape room, real-life escape rooms all around the world. Elements of escape the room games can be found in other adventure games, such as ''Myst'' and ''Nine Hours, Nin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure Game
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, such as literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of genres. Most adventure games (text and graphic) are designed for a single player, since the emphasis on story and character makes multiplayer design difficult. '' Colossal Cave Adventure'' is identified by Rick Adams as the first such adventure game, first released in 1976, while other notable adventure game series include ''Zork'', '' King's Quest'', '' Monkey Island'', '' Syberia'', and ''Myst''. Adventure games were initially developed in the 1970s and early 1980s as text-based interactive stories, using text parsers to translate the player's commands into actions. As personal computers became more powerful with better graphics, the graphic adventure-game format became po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action-adventure Game
An action-adventure game is a video game hybrid genre that combines core elements from both the action game and adventure game genres. Definition An action adventure game can be defined as a game with a mix of elements from an action game and an adventure game, especially crucial elements like puzzles inspired by older adventure games. Action-adventures require many of the same physical skills as action games, but may also offer a storyline, numerous characters, an inventory system, dialogue, and other features of adventure games. They are typically faster-paced than pure adventure games, because they include both physical and conceptual challenges. Action-adventure games normally include a combination of complex story elements, which are often displayed for players using audio and video. The story is heavily reliant upon the player character's movement, which triggers story events and thus affects the flow of the game. Popular examples of action-adventure games inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PC Game
A personal computer game, or abbreviated PC game, also known as a computer game, is a video game played on a personal computer (PC). The term ''PC game'' has been popularly used since the 1990s referring specifically to games on "Wintel" (Microsoft Windows software/Intel hardware) which has dominated the computer industry since. Mainframe and minicomputer games are a precursor to personal computer games. Home computer games became popular following the video game crash of 1983. In the 1990s, PC games lost mass market traction to console games on the fifth generation of video game consoles, fifth generation such as the Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64 and PlayStation (console), PlayStation. They are enjoying a resurgence in popularity since the mid-2000s through digital distribution on online service providers. Personal computers as well as general computer software are considered synonymous with IBM PC compatible systems; while mobile devices – smartphones and tablets, such as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mobile Game
A mobile game is a video game that is typically played on a mobile phone. The term also refers to all games that are played on any Mobile device, portable device, including from mobile phone (feature phone or smartphone), tablet computer, tablet, Personal digital assistant, PDA to handheld game console, portable media player or graphing calculator, with and without network availability. The earliest known game on a mobile phone was a Tetris variant on the Hagenuk MT-2000 device from 1994. In 1997, Nokia launched ''Snake (1998 video game), Snake''. ''Snake'', which was Pre-installed software, pre-installed in most mobile devices manufactured by Nokia for a couple of years, has since become one of the most played games, at one point found on more than 350 million devices worldwide. Mobile devices became more computationally advanced allowing for downloading of games, though these were initially limited to phone carriers' own stores. Mobile gaming grew greatly with the development ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handheld Electronic Game
Handheld electronic games are interactive electronic games, often miniaturized versions of video games, that are played on portable handheld devices, known as handheld game consoles, whose controls, display and speakers are all part of a single unit. Rather than a general-purpose screen made up of a grid of small pixels, they usually have custom displays designed to play one game. This simplicity means they can be made as small as a smartwatch, and sometimes are. The visual output of these games can range from a few small light bulbs or LED lights to calculator-like alphanumerical screens; later these were mostly displaced by liquid crystal and vacuum fluorescent display screens with detailed images and in the case of VFD games, color. Handhelds' popularity was at its peak from the late 1970s into the early 1990s before declining. They are the precursors to the handheld game console. History Early handheld games used simple mechanisms to interact with players, often limited to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handheld Console Game
A handheld game console, or simply handheld console, is a small, portable self-contained video game console with a built-in screen, game controls and speakers. Handheld game consoles are smaller than home video game consoles and contain the console, screen, speakers, and controls in one unit, allowing players to carry them and play them at any time or place.Li, Frederick W. B. Computer Games'. . Durham University. Retrieved December 19, 2008. p. 4. In 1976, Mattel introduced the first handheld electronic game with the release of ''Mattel Auto Race, Auto Race''. Later, several companies—including Coleco and Milton Bradley Company, Milton Bradley—made their own single-game, lightweight table-top or handheld electronic game devices. The first commercially successful handheld console was Merlin (console), Merlin from 1978, which sold more than 5 million units. The first handheld game console with interchangeable ROM cartridge, cartridges is the Milton Bradley Microvision in 1979 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
