List of game genres

This list contains types of games.

Main types

• Chance games
• Skill games

Party games

• Conversation games
• Drinking games
• Guessing games
• Power games
• Singing games

Tabletop games

• Board games
• Amerigame
• Cooperative games
• Eurogames
• Card games
• Deck-building 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
• Platforming games
• shooter games
• First-person shooters
• Third person shooter games
• Hero shooters
• Shoot 'em ups
• fighting games
• Beat 'em up
• Hack and slash
• Stealth game
• Survival game
• Rhythm game
• Battle royale game
• Action-adventure games
• Survival horror
• Metroidvania
• Adventure games
• text adventures
• Graphic adventures
• point-and-click
• 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
• MMORPG
• MMOFPS
• MMORTS
• MMOTBS
• MMO simulation games
• Roguelike
• Tactical role-playing game
• sandbox role-playing game
• First-person party-based RPG
• Monster-taming game
• Simulation video game
• Construction and management simulation
• city-building games
• Business simulation games
• government simulation game
• Life simulation game
• Vehicle simulation game
• Flight simulation
• Racing games
• Space flight simulator games
• Train simulators
• Vehicular combat
• Strategy video game
• 4X game
• Artillery game
• Multiplayer online battle arena
• Real-time strategy
• Real-time tactics
• Tower defense
• Turn-based strategy
• Turn-based tactics
• Wargame (video games)
• Grand strategy wargame
• 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

By location

• Car games
• Lawn games
• Locative games
• Parlor games
• Pervasive games
• Playground games

Others

• Educational games
• Mathematical games
• Multiplayer games
• Play-by-mail games
• Play-by-post games
• Puzzles
• Quizzes
• Redemption games
• Wargames
• Word game