List of game genres

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-adventure games
• Adventure games
• Browser games
• Casual games
• Escape room games
• Fighting games
• Minigames
• Multiplayer online battle arena games
• Platforming games
• Real-time [strategy game]s
• Rhythm games
• Role-playing video games
• Shooter games
• * First person shooter games
• * Third person shooter games
• Simulation Games
• Sports games

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