Types of games

• Action games


  • Require quick reactions and hand-eye coordination from the player
  • Action-packed, requiring plenty of user input
• Shooting games


  • Also known as shooters where players have to shoot at enemies using weapons
  • Players are tasked with killing enemies or playing against each other
• Fighting games


  • Focuses on close-quarters combat
  • Large rosters of playable characters
• Hack and slash games


  Emphasizes combo-heavy, melee-based combat
• Platformers


  Games that revolve around jumping, climbing, swimming, and other navigation modes to overcome obstacles and enemies
• Adventure games


  • Slower-paced than action games
  • Emphasize storytelling, exploration, and thinking due to the sheer number of puzzles and options players can take to beat the game
• Point-and-click games


  • Navigated with a mouse
  • Players interact with objects and characters
• Narrative adventure games


  • Non-linear story-based games
  • Dialogue options and story choices affect the plot
  • Revolve around selecting dialogue options, solving puzzles, and completing quick-time events
• Role-playing games (RPGs)


  • Give players the ability to create a character or a set of characters to develop over time by gaining experience points
  • Players explore the world by visiting towns and dungeons to fight enemies and find items to loot
• Open-world RPGs


  • RPGs where the world is vast and readily available for the player to explore
  • Populated with enemies and non-player characters that the player can interact with
• Action RPGs


  • RPGs that focus more on combat
  • Allocated stats and attributes are less relevant
  • Game rewards the player's speed and ability to overcome certain challenges
• MMORPGs


  • Stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
  • Community-based games where hundreds, thousands, or even millions of players can interact with one another to collaborate and complete