List of game genres
This list contains types of games.
Main types
Party games
Tabletop games
- Board games
- Card games
- Dice games
- Miniature games
- Pencil-and-paper games
- Role-playing games
- Strategy games
- Tile-based games
Video games
Technology
- Alternate reality game
- Arcade games
- Console games
- Handheld console games
- Handheld electronic game
- Mobile games
- PC games
Generation/type
- Action games
- Action-adventure games
- Adventure games
- text adventures
- Graphic adventures
- visual novel
- Interactive movie
- Real-time 3D adventures
- Puzzle video games
- Breakout clone game (?)
- Logical game
- Physics game
- programming game
- Puzzle-platform game
- Trial-and-error / exploration
- Hidden object game
- Reveal the picture game
- Tile-matching video game
- Traditional puzzle game
- Role-playing video game
- Action role-playing game
- Computer role-playing games
- Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
- Roguelike
- Tactical role-playing game
- sandbox role-playing game
- First-person party-based RPG
- Monster-taming game
- Simulation video game
- Strategy video game
- Sports video game
- Racing games
- Sports games
- Competitive
- Sports-based fighting
- Other notable genres
- Board game or card game
- Parental Sim
- Casino game
- Digital collectible card game
- digital therapeutic video game
- Gacha game
- Horror game
- Incremental game
- Party games
- photography game
- social deduction game
- Trivia games
- typing game
- Browser games
- Casual games
- Escape room games
- Minigames