List of video game genres

A video game genre is category of related games based on their gameplay (the rules and action of a game). Unlike genres of movies and novels, these genres are not based on a game's setting, main characters, or plot elements. However, horror games have been counted as a genre.

List

• Role-playing video game
  • Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
  • Action role-playing game
  • Roguelike
• Action
  • Shooter
    • First-person shooter
    • Third-person shooter
    • Shoot 'em up
  • Platformer
  • Beat 'em up
  • Hack and slash
  • Stealth
  • Fighting
  • Survival
    • Survival horror
    • Battle royale
• Action-adventure
• Adventure
  • Interactive fiction
  • Visual novel
• Simulation
  • Life simulation game
    • Virtual pet
  • Sports video game
• Strategy
  • Real-time strategy
  • Multiplayer online battle arena
  • Tower defense
• Racing
  • Sim racing
• Puzzle

List Of Video Game Genres Media

• Gameplay from Fez's trial mode, demonstrating platforming elements, the game's signature rotation mechanic, and the game's soundtrack, sound effects, and visual style.

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  Freedoom 0.9, MAP07 from Phase 2.

• Gunroar - end of boss.jpg

  This picture shows gameplay of a shoot 'em up.

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  Frets on Fire is a music game.

• Mystery House - Apple II render emulation - 2.png

  Mystery House for the Apple II was the first adventure game to use graphics in the early home computer era.

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  The Splatters, a physics based Xbox Live Arcade game

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  KQ is a role-playing game.

• Freedroidrpg basic gameplay.ogv

  Video showing basic point and click action RPG gameplay

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  NetHack is a roguelike game. The text display seen here is common in games in the roguelike genre.

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  Screenshot of Damnation of Gods, a Dungeon Master clone. All four members of the players's party move around the game world as a single unit in first-person perspective.