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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Interactive fiction / text adventure
Interactive Fiction games (also known as Text Adventures) are Adventure games in which the player navigates through the game which is presented mostly in textual form. Usually the player interacts with the world by typing simple sentences of what he intends to which are interpreted by the game. Interactive Fiction can have a small amount of graphics to illustrate an area, the player must in this case still interact using textual input. Illustrations should not be required to finish the game.