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Game genre list
List started by
robert
for the Games domain
Includes genres of boardgames.
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| Fantasy football |
Fantasy football is a genre of board game or wargame which normally involves two teams of fantasy races (such as elves, dwarves or orcs) competing in an extremely violent variant of American football. Violent future sports such as Rollerball may...
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| Historical | Ars Magica | |||
| Science Fiction | Warhammer 40,000 | |||
| Star Wars Miniatures | ||||
| Economic simulation |
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Computer Game Genre | Caylus |
Business simulation games, or economic simulation games, are games that simulate a real-world, historical, or hypothetical economy or business. Examples of economic simulation games are listed in The Higher Education Academy - Economics Network. The...
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| Acquire | ||||
| Java | ||||
| Monopoly | ||||
| Pay Day | ||||
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| Fantasy | Elfenland | |||
| Runebound | ||||
| Battleground Fantasy Warfare | ||||
| Descent: Journeys in the Dark | ||||
| Wizard Kings | ||||
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| Tile-based game |
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Computer Game Genre | Dominoes |
A tile-based game is a game that uses tile as one of the fundamental elements of play. It has different meanings depending on how it is used. There are many traditional games which use tiles, but when referring to video game, normally a tile-based...
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| Game | Mahjong | |||
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| Triominos | ||||
| Tantrix | ||||
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| Children's | Ludo | |||
| Candy Land | ||||
| Trouble | ||||
| Sorry! | ||||
| Pokémon Master Trainer | ||||
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| Adventure | Runebound | |||
| Roll and move | Monopoly | |||
| Snakes and ladders | ||||
| Cluedo | ||||
| Trivial Pursuit | ||||
| Pictionary | ||||
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| Sports | Blood Bowl | |||
| Strat-o-Matic | ||||
| Formula Dé | ||||
| Monsters of the Midway | ||||
| All Star Baseball | ||||
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| Racing | ||||
| Word | Scrabble | |||
| Upwords | ||||
| Pictionary | ||||
| Alfapet | ||||
| The Da Vinci Game | ||||
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| Railroad | Ticket to Ride: Europe | |||
| Ticket to Ride | ||||
| Rail Baron | ||||
| 18XX | ||||
| Crayon rails | ||||
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| Horror | ||||
| Auction | ||||
| Murder Mystery | ||||
| Cooperative | ||||
| German-style |
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Hare and Tortoise |
German-style board games are a broad class of games produced in recent decades in Germany and other countries. The games emphasise strategy, downplay luck and conflict, lean towards economic rather than military themes, and usually keep all the...
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| Acquire | ||||
| Settlers of Catan | ||||
| Tigris and Euphrates | ||||
| Puerto Rico | ||||
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| Zero-sum | Go |
In game theory and economic theory, zero-sum describes a situation in which a participant's gain or loss is exactly balanced by the losses or gains of the other participant(s). If the total gains of the participants are added up, and the total...
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| Perfect information | Go |
Perfect information is a term used in economics and game theory to describe a state of complete knowledge about the actions of other players that is instantaneously updated as new information arises.
Chess, Irensei and Go are canonical examples of...
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| Chess | ||||
| Strategy | Computer Game Genre | Go |
A Strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal, most often "winning." Strategy is differentiated from tactics or immediate actions with resources at hand by its nature of being extensively premeditated, and often...
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| Quotation Subject | Stratego | |||
| Media genre | Diplomacy | |||
| Colonial Diplomacy | ||||
| The Godfather Game | ||||
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| Fishing game | Scopa | |||
| Matching game | Mille | |||
| Gin rummy | ||||
| 500 Rum | ||||
| Canasta | ||||
| Panguingue | ||||
| Shedding-type game | Paskahousu | |||
| Shithead | ||||
| Bullshit | ||||
| Musta Maija | ||||
| Trick-taking game | Playing card game | Whist |
A Trick-taking game is any one of a class of card game where play centers around a series of finite rounds or units of play, called tricks. The object of such games is then closely tied to the winning, or "taking", of these tricks, or of the cards...
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| Game | Vint | |||
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| Party game | Computer Game Genre | Spin the bottle |
Party games are game which share several features suitable to entertaining a social gathering of moderate size.
Not all of the above are suitable for children's parties. Traditional children's party games (some of which are also popular with...
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| Trivial Pursuit | ||||
| Balderdash | ||||
| Pictionary | ||||
| Twister | ||||
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| Adventure board game |
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Talisman |
An adventure board game is a board game in which a player plays as a unique individual character that improves through gameplay. This improvement is commonly reflected in terms of increasing character attributes, but also in receiving new abilities...
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| HeroQuest | ||||
| Role-playing game |
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Computer Game Genre | Dungeons & Dragons |
A role-playing game (RPG; often roleplaying game) is a game in which the participants assume the roles of fictional characters. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail...
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| Literary Genre | D20 Modern | |||
| Media genre | D20 System | |||
| Industry | !G - Rated G | |||
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| Transportation | Elfenland | |||
| Thurn and Taxis | ||||
| Collectible Card Game | Magic: The Gathering | |||
| Netrunner | ||||
| Pokémon Trading Card Game | ||||
| World of Warcraft Trading Card Game | ||||
| Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game | ||||
| Miniature wargaming |
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Battleground Fantasy Warfare |
Miniature wargaming is a form of wargaming designed to incorporate miniatures or figurine into play. The miniatures are used to represent troops or vehicles (such as tanks, chariots, aircraft, ships, etc.). The games may reflect historical...
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| Block | Wizard Kings |
The Block genre in gaming typically refers to war games which use square or rectangular wooden blocks as the game pieces. Block games are commonly associated with Columbia Games.
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| War | Wizard Kings | |||
| Card game |
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Book Subject | Battleground Fantasy Warfare |
A card game is any game using playing card, either traditional or game-specific. Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as poker). Some games have formally standardized rules, while rules for others can vary by region,...
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| Type/domain equivalent topic | Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot | |||
| Maptitude | ||||
| Western |
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Film genre |
The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States (known...
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| Thriller | Film genre |
The thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, gaming and television. It includes numerous, often overlapping sub-genre.
Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful hero who must thwart the plans of more...
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| Pirates | Literary Genre | Bloode Island | ||
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| Political simulation | Balance of Power |
A political simulation is a game
that attempts to simulate the government and politics of all or part of
a nation. These games may include geopolitical situations (involving
the formation and execution of foreign policy), the creation of
domestic...
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| Conflict: Middle East Political Simulator | ||||
| Crisis in the Kremlin | ||||
| The Political Machine | ||||
| President Forever 2008 + Primaries | ||||
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| Humour |
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Website Category |
Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Many theories exist about what humour is and what social function it serves. People of most ages and cultures...
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