84 accepted games carry both roots.
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01 / broadest promise
Gameplay roots
13 entries 01 A 
Action 
Action-Adventure 
RPG 
Strategy Simulation 
Adventure 
Puzzle 
Sports 
Racing 
Fighting 
Platformer 
Shooter 
Music/Rhythm
Action Execution-focused games built around reflexes, timing, movement, or combat.
143 accepted games ↗ 02 A Action-Adventure Games that balance real-time action with exploration, traversal, and adventure progression.
105 accepted games ↗ 03 R RPG Games centered on character growth, builds, equipment, statistics, and consequential role-playing progression.
289 accepted games ↗ 04 S Strategy Games centered on planning, resource allocation, positioning, and multi-unit or systemic decision-making.
134 accepted games ↗ 05 S Simulation Games centered on operating, managing, inhabiting, or experimenting with modeled systems.
407 accepted games ↗ 06 A Adventure Games centered on exploration, narrative discovery, dialogue, and puzzle-led progression rather than execution-heavy combat.
96 accepted games ↗ 07 P Puzzle Games whose primary challenge is solving explicit logic, spatial, pattern, or systems problems.
56 accepted games ↗ 08 S Sports Games whose primary activity models or adapts a recognized sport or athletic competition.
146 accepted games ↗ 09 R Racing Games whose primary activity is competitive or time-based vehicle racing.
12 accepted games ↗ 10 F Fighting Games centered on direct, bounded combat contests between a small number of fighters.
19 accepted games ↗ 11 P Platformer Games centered on precise traversal through jumping, climbing, momentum, or obstacle courses.
89 accepted games ↗ 12 S Shooter Games whose primary interaction is aiming and firing projectile or ranged weapons.
127 accepted games ↗ 13 M Music/Rhythm Games whose primary challenge follows musical timing, performance, dance, or rhythm patterns.
15 accepted games ↗02 / structure over label
Frameworks
12 entries
Metroidvania 38 accepted games Roguelike 94 accepted games Roguelite 122 accepted games Soulslike 27 accepted games Open World 70 accepted games 
Survival 38 accepted games 
Extraction 12 accepted games 
Survivor-like 13 accepted games 
Immersive Sim 8 accepted games Sandbox 80 accepted games 
Stealth 28 accepted games 
Battle Royale 9 accepted games 03 / specific paths worth opening
Featured subgenres
8 entriesAction RPG is the broad real-time RPG path. ARPG is reserved for the Diablo-style loot-and-build loop.
F Farming Life Sim 
Life Sim 
CRPG Action RPG 
ARPG 
Turn-Based RPG 
Survival Horror 
Grand Strategy
Farming Life Sim A farming-and-life lens spanning Simulation, RPG, Adventure, Platformer, and Action-Adventure hybrids when farming participates in recurring progression, relationship, or community loops; not equipment-led agricultural realism.
38 accepted games → L Life Sim Daily-life simulation centered on routines, personal expression, relationships, or household development; use a narrower life-sim term when available.
5 accepted games → C CRPG A computer-role-playing lineage emphasizing rules-driven character builds, party or avatar agency, exploration, and consequential quest or dialogue choices.
18 accepted games → A Action RPG A role-playing game whose character growth and build choices are expressed through real-time combat, movement, abilities, and equipment.
118 accepted games → A ARPG The Diablo-style action RPG form: real-time combat organized around dungeon or area clearing, character builds, and repeatable equipment and loot progression.
25 accepted games → T Turn-Based RPG Role-playing games whose primary combat or decision loop is turn-based without enough evidence to justify a regional or tactical sub-genre.
12 accepted games → S Survival Horror Horror-led games built around vulnerability, resource scarcity, evasion, and fear rather than a broader survival-simulation loop.
17 accepted games → G Grand Strategy Large-scale strategy in which a state, empire, or political entity is managed across military, diplomatic, economic, and often historical systems.
8 accepted games →04 / the full path library
All subgenres
140 entries Character ActionMinigame CollectionArcade ActionObjective ActionSurvivor ActionHack-and-SlashBeat 'em UpMusouShoot 'em UpTwin-Stick ShooterBullet HellVehicular CombatCinematic Action-AdventureExploration Action-AdventureStealth ActionSurvival HorrorJRPGTurn-Based RPGCRPGAction RPGARPGTactical RPGWRPGDungeon CrawlerMonster-Taming RPGMMORPGLooter RPGRoad-Trip RPGSports RPGGrand Strategy4XRTSTurn-Based StrategyReal-Time TacticsTurn-Based TacticsTower DefenseDeckbuilding StrategyAuto-BattlerMOBAExtraction StrategyRun-Based StrategySocial DeductionLife SimFarming Life SimSocial Life SimManagement SimBusiness/Shopkeeping SimSandbox SimPhysics SimSurvival SimDating SimCity/Settlement BuilderColony SimAgricultural SimConstruction SimVehicle SimFlight SimTrain SimSpace SimGod SimJob/Process SimPhotography SimCreative SimIncremental SimPet SimSports Management SimTabletop SimPoint-and-ClickVisual NovelWalking SimInteractive FictionNarrative AdventureFMV AdventureEscape-Room AdventureLogic PuzzlePhysics PuzzleMatch PuzzleSokobanProgramming PuzzleHidden ObjectPuzzle PlatformerFootballBowlingBasketballDodgeballBaseballHockeyGolfTennisBadmintonTable TennisWrestlingBoxingCombat SportVolleyballTrack & FieldBilliardsWinter SportsFishing SportPinballArcheryShooting SportRacquet SportMulti-SportHorse RacingSkateboardingExtreme SportsVirtual SportSim RacingArcade RacingKart RacingRally RacingCombat RacingFuturistic Racing2D Fighter3D FighterArena FighterPlatform FighterTag FighterParty Brawler2D Platformer3D PlatformerPrecision PlatformerCinematic PlatformerEndless RunnerFirst-Person ShooterThird-Person ShooterTactical ShooterArena ShooterArcade ShooterHero ShooterBoomer ShooterRail ShooterExtraction ShooterLooter ShooterRhythm ActionInstrument RhythmDance RhythmVocal RhythmMusic Puzzle
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66 accepted games carry both roots.
32 accepted games carry both roots.
31 accepted games carry both roots.
28 accepted games carry both roots.
28 accepted games carry both roots.
28 accepted games carry both roots.
24 accepted games carry both roots.
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