Video Game Genres

Massively Multiplayer Online Game MMO or MMOG Massively Multiplayer Online Game

MMO World of Warcraft Eve Online ARK: Survival Evolved MMORPG Become the epic hero of your faction, along with millions of other people. MMORPG Goal, take over the universe! Problem? Thousands of other players are trying to as well. Featured in the NYC Museum of Modern Art MMO action-adventure survival Think MMO version of Minecraft survival meets Jurassic Park

Let’s make the Real World digital Simulators Let’s make the Real World digital

Life Simulators – Top Down Sims Creatures 3/Docking Station Game Dev Tycoon (started as an architecture simulator) Build a house and help a person live Caring for generations of creatures on a space station Start out in your garage. Build a major game development company. (Cool trick for pirates)

Activity Simulators – First Person Flight Simulator Farm Simulator 17 Goat Simulator Learn to fly! Yes, there’s 17 of them… Work hard on a farm and don’t get paid! Be a goat… and that’s about it. And that’s why it’s fun.

Other Simulators Democracy 3 Galaxy Angel Europa Universalis Civilization/War/Trade/Government Simulator Dating Simulator War/Trade/Civilization/Politics

Crossover Simulators Madden 25 Oxygen Not Included Viscera Cleanup Detail Sports Simulator Physics/life Simulator? Keep your colony alive. The catch? You’re buried in the middle of a giant asteroid and… you’re running out of oxygen fast. Horror Simulator Be the space station janitor tasked with cleaning up after a horrible experiment escapes.

Sandbox free-roaming open-world buildable Few or no objectives Few restrictions on where player can go buildable Players can change aspects of the environment of the game

All about the problem solving Puzzle All about the problem solving

Puzzle Tetris Portal 1 & 2 Candy Crush

Adventure Puzzles with a story

Adventure Stories Untold The Legend of Zelda Discworld Noir Meta-gaming, playing a game about playing a game. Start out playing text adventure, but soon realize that the game is happening in real life. “I’ve had some bad days since I started work as a private investigator. But I’ve never woken up dead before.”

planning and directing competitive puzzles think chess Strategy planning and directing competitive puzzles think chess

Strategy Civilization VI StarCraft II RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 Civilization Strategy/simulation Turn-based Amusement Park Management Military Science Fiction Real-time Strategy

Fast paced and reflex based Action Fast paced and reflex based

Action Space Invaders Mario Bros Call of Duty First game in the “shoot 'em up” genre FPS – First Person Shooter Platformer

Follow characters through complex story RPG - Role Playing Game Follow characters through complex story

RPGs Final Fantasy Skyrim The Dreamhold Top down turn based First Person Real-time Purely Text Based

RPG – Rogue-like role-playing games characterized by: dungeon crawl through procedurally generated game levels turn-based gameplay tile-based graphics permanent death of the player-character

Crossover highlights Spore Fallout 4 Utopia 3D Life simulator Strategy real-time RPG 3D RPG Adventure Action FPS Text Based RPG Strategy Adventure MMO – Forget World of Warcraft… this is the world’s longest running MMO

Crossover highlights Dark Souls Terraria Overwatch 3D Action Adventure RPG Rogue-like 2D Sandbox Survival Adventure 3D PVP Action FPS Strategy Real-time