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Video game genres
- Action gameAction games are a video game genre built on two deceptively simple demands: hand-eye coordination and reaction time. Those two requirements have generated…
- Adventure gameAdventure games begin with a simple premise: you are the protagonist, and the world is waiting to be explored. In 1976, a programmer named William Crowther…
- Action-adventure gameAction-adventure games occupy a peculiar middle ground in the history of video games. They are too fast for pure adventure fans and too thoughtful for…
- Role-playing video gameRole-playing video games place the player inside a world where an ordinary person can become, over time, something extraordinary.
- Action role-playing gameAction role-playing game, commonly shortened to ARPG, sits at the crossroads of two very different gaming traditions. On one side stands the role-playing…
- Stealth gameThe stealth game asks a simple question: what if you could win without ever being seen? In November 1979, a programmer named Hiroshi Suzuki published a…
- Space flight simulation gameSpace flight simulation games ask a deceptively simple question: what would it actually feel like to fly through space? The answer, it turns out, depends…
- Fighting gameFighting games put two characters in an arena and ask a simple question: who wins? Sega's black-and-white arcade cabinet Heavyweight Champ, released in 1976…
- Survival horrorSurvival horror is a genre built on a simple, unsettling premise: you are not strong enough to fight back. Unlike most video games, where the player wields…
- Visual novelVisual novels are a video game genre born in Japan, built around a deceptively simple idea: what if a game was mostly a story?
- Tactical role-playing gameTactical role-playing games ask a deceptively simple question: what if every move on the battlefield actually mattered? The genre, abbreviated TRPG or SRPG…
- Rhythm gameRhythm games challenge players to press buttons in a dictated sequence in time with music. The genre sits at the crossroads of music and action gaming…
- Massively multiplayer online role-playing gameMassively multiplayer online role-playing games, better known as MMORPGs, crossed a billion dollars in revenue in the western world by 2006.