Gameplay
- 4X
- Action RPG
- Arcade
- Artillery
- Beat 'em up / brawler
- Board game
- Cards / tiles
- Chess
- City building / construction simulation
- Dating simulation
- Falling block puzzle
- Fighting
- Gambling elements
- Game show / trivia / quiz
- Graphic adventure
- Hack and slash
- Hidden object
- Hunting
- Interactive book
- Interactive fiction / text adventure
- Japanese-style RPG (JRPG)
- Japanese-style adventure
- Life / social simulation
- Managerial / business simulation
- Massively Multiplayer
- Mental training
- Metroidvania
- Mini-games
- Music / rhythm
- Paddle / Pong
- Party game
- Pinball
- Platform
- Puzzle elements
- Quick Time Events (QTEs)
- RPG elements
- Rail shooter
- Real-time strategy (RTS)
- Real-time tactics (RTT)
- Roguelike
- Sandbox / open world
- Shooter
- Stealth
- Survival horror
- Tactical RPG
- Tactical shooter
- Tile matching puzzle
- Time management
- Timed input
- Tower defense
- Trading / collectible card
- Tricks / stunts
- Turn-based strategy (TBS)
- Turn-based tactics (TBT)
- Visual novel
- Wargame
- Word construction
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Gambling elements
Games that feature gambling or games of chance (with an in-game currency or real world money) as a mini-game, a side activity or an optional gameplay element.
Typical examples are games featuring Poker as a mini-game (e.g. Read Dead Redemption II or Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards).
It also includes titles that are gacha games or incorporate lootboxes where players bet real world money for a chance to receive an item of value. Examples are FIFA 22, Genshin Impact or Hearthstone: Heroes of WarCraft.
Games where the majority of the gameplay is based around gambling (e.g. slot machines, Poker, Blackjack or Roulette) receive the basic genre Gambling instead, as this subgenre Gambling elements is then implied.