Every Game Genre Explained In 6 Minutes 

What's your top 3 favorite genres? 👇👇👇

rhythm, roguelike, tower defense, deck builder, survivors, arcade, virtual novel, story driven, point and click, clickers/idler

Not me expecting an intro, opened the video and was like “OH DAMN OK LETS GO”

There are many subgenres and game formulas inside those genres. I would categorize games in this way: ACTION: FPS (arena shooter / twitch shooter / boomer shooter / looter shooter / hero shooter / battle royale/ "realistic" shooter / immersive shooters), third-person shooters ARCADE: shoot-em-up (shmup), platformer, metroidvania, top-down games ADVENTURE: point-and-click quest, walking simulator, visual novel. FIGHTING: 2D and 3D fighting games, beat-em-up, hack&slash RPG: cRPG, jRPG, arcade RPG (Diablo clones, Roguelikes), action RPG (Witcher, Elder Scrolls games, Souls-likes, etc), MMORPG STRATEGY: turnbased or realtime (RTS, 4x Strategy, Tactical strategy, Management/Tycoon strategy), Tower Defence. There also a Action/FPS strategies (Battlezone, Hostile Waters, etc) and RPG/RTS (Spellforce) SPORTS: racing games (arcade or realistic) and all kinds of sports SIMULATORS: Vehicle Simulators (airplanes, spaceship, ground vehicle), Profession Simulator, Life Simulator PUZZLE: usually logic games RANDOM-BASED: casino games, tabletop, card games MOBA - mix betweeen strategy, RPG, and action Survival - basically action games with progression, crafting and maybe some RPG elements Horror - I would say horror is an element of the setting and story, not genre defining factor.

Some first-person shooters don't let you swap the weapon your holding, but rather swap your the character how you are playing. These are the hero shooters, which allows you to play as different characters, each welding different weapons and having different abilities. Hero shooters are generally not as violent than other shooters, with them having little blood and no swearing.

My favorites - action, beat em up/hack and slash, horror, racing, shooter, platformer, educational, arcade

can you make a video on Optimizations and the way Games Optimize their Game. I like your videos

Part 2 When?

I would also add roguelike

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Some additional details: 1: Sometimes, you will hear action games in the context of DMC\Platinum style games, which follows a beat-em-up style of gameplay that prioritizes stylish play. Most commoners call these "Character action games", but you'll still hear people just refer to them like normal. 2: Adventure games are typically referred to as "action-adventure" because they'll feature elements of "regular" action games, because if they didn't have them, it would be too boring. 3: There are two types of horror: Survival and regular. Regular horror is mostly just for scaring people, but survival horror is more akin to Resident Evil, where the core of the experience is figuring out how to make your character survive using very limited tools. 4: The Legend of Zelda (Shown frequently in this section) is not a typical RPG. It's more akin to a regular adventure game. Most people will refer to RPGs as the ones where you're given tons of stats to level up, and ones with an abundance of side-content. While Zelda TECHNICALLY fits within these guidelines, it's very different to what most RPG players will expect. 5: Of course, there's two different types of strategy. One is real-time, and the other is turn-based. I think you can probably guess the difference. 6: When you see someone say "fighting game" they're usually referring to the ones where you directly face-off a real person playing the game, and your goal is to drain their health bar to zero. (AKA Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat) Since Smash Bros. is so unique in this regard, they just call games like that "Platform fighters". If your game involves fighting multiple different AI characters, we call them beat-em-ups. (To prevent things like Sifu appearing on "best fighting games" in Game Awards 2022) Also, fighting games are cool. 7: Tetris here is what's known as a "block puzzle game", because the puzzles here are not pre-created, (Like in Portal) but you do plenty of puzzling there. 8: Racing games come in two forms. Arcade and simulation. With arcade mostly focusing on "less realistic" and simulation focusing on "more realistic" However, as you can imagine, many, many racing games love to blur the line between these. So it's more of a spectrum rather than a genre. 9: Just plain sports games are way too boring. Because of this, cool developers created games that involve the use of sports (Eg. Soccer) and actually make it play like a proper video game. By far the most famous example of these are Wii Sports, NFL Blitz, and the publishing label EA Sports BIG. (Made SSX and NBA Street) So not all sports games are actually like Madden, in the sense of literally just trying to be a direct copy of real sports. 10: Most shooters are referred to as "FPS" games, (First Person Shooter) and even those have their own separate genres. You'll hear some categorized as "movement shooters" because they'll focus on smooth movement through stages, while shooting enemies. (Obviously great example of this is ULTRAKILL) And part of the reason why it's called FPS is because Fortnite is not first person. 11: There's also what people will call collectathons. And the concept for these is basically just "like Mario 64", where you explore open-ended environments to collect all of the collectible items. They're usually 3D games. But then there's FEZ, (Seen at 2:39) which is kind of a collectathon, and it's TECHNICALLY 3D, but trying to think any further will make your brain hurt. 12: Of course, The Sims is very different to Farming Simulator. As a result, you'll sometimes hear these referred to as "city-builders" or just straight-up strategy games. 13: You can find many different examples of games which involve survival, but don't really get considered as survival games. Generally, survival games will revolve around you spawning in a randomly generated environment, and your first goal will usually be to build shelter to survive. ...that concept sounds familiar... 14: Sandbox games will usually be moreso a subgenre rather than a genre. And the reason why is because of games like Teardown. It's a heist game, but the amount of freedom you get in it allows you to express yourself in more ways than something like Payday. Minecraft and Terraria then, are sandbox survival games. 15: A lot of educational games will be referred to as "Edutainment games", which peaked around the 90s, and they were sold as actual video games in actual stores. So Kahoot is not edutainment, because it's a free browser game that's mostly played in schools.

Does Hack n' Slash and Beat'em Ups count as genres?

I think if you make a part 2, you should do dungeon crawlers

What about runner games? Also I found a mistake in 2:41 : At the top, it shows sports not racing

Don't forget RTS games they are many of these genre games including : "Command & Conquer" and "Dune 2000" . and we also don't forget about : -tycoon . idle . indie . rhythm games . and many more.......(plz part 2 :3)

My top tiers are Rpg, Strategy, Adventure, Action and survival in this order.

what about tycoon games or idle games

Stealth, Metroidvania, and Rogue-likes could be covered next.

Wtf I didn’t even realise this video just came out

my favorites are: action, adventure, rpg, fighting, Shooter, survival and sandbox and sometimes educational are mega fun when everybody on class is named Goofy Ahh💀

Every Steam Game Tags explained please?

If I had to do a top 3 list, I would say 1. Survival, 2. Simulation 3. Horror

Adventure games focus on storytelling, puzzles, and exploration in large virtual worlds. Horror games aim to invoke fear through atmospheric storytelling and frightening imagery. RPGs allow players to take on roles, embark on quests, and shape narratives. Strategy games require tactical thinking and resource management.

Can you do one about coding languages? (C++, c#, lua, JavaScript, python, c, java, etc)

Add tower defense next

what about shmungus?

I like action, rpg, and fighting,

technically every game genre is sandbox if you have the right tools

My fav is Platforming

Blud forgot half of them

Make A Video > Game Style > 2D - 3D - Pixel - Comic Style - Square (Minecract) - And More....✨

Yeah

Survival sandbox

Bro forgot Stealth

The Racing part of the video says sports

no way 2:42 is a Rocket League because the genre named it sports

WWW video bro 🔥

And did ChatGPT write this?

I need this for making games. new sub

where tower defence

Hello

The legand of Zelda is not an RPG it's an adventure game

Cool.

I'm about to crap myself

you forgot the SSG Games dude 😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕

Next all console game

Roguelike, Roguelite

Metroidvania

It's hard to be comprehensive with genres since they scale down to the smallest little details. If you're looking to make a part 2 I'd recommend checking games databases to see what kinda genres you can find. Places like mobygames, or maybe even flashpoint are good starting points

Actually, The all game is simulation

But that’s just a theory a game theory

Rage game. Like; getting over it, only up, i am bread, and suika game.

Sadly you forgot roguelikes :(

Bro employed chat gpt to write his scripts 😂.

Every?

wait this gives me a great idea

Bro, a brazilian guy are coping yo💀💀

Only genre i prefer is racing.

Let’s goooo

the lack of power I have over the likes is insane

Hello you should talk about my game

Cheese

1: game i am working on that i am not gonna share the name of 2: another game i am working on call spaceguins. 3 Baldur's gate: enhanced edition all RPGs and one of those is a rougelike

Video narrator does not know what " Realistic " means.

@stopshutgames if you don't update the game or make ut morw scary your a furry

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Skibidi genre 🐢🦖

Thats not every game genre tho.

You forgot gacha games