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Best of genre

Want to see which games I’ve reviewed and rated as my favourite for each genre? Select a genre from the list below to see games ordered by their review score.

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Action

Action
2D action
2.5D action
3D action
Action adventure
Action roguelike
Action roguelite
Battle Royale
Boss rush
Dodge em up
Firefighting
Hack and slash
Run and gun
Speedrunner
Stealth
Survival
Survivors-like

Adventure

Adventure
2D adventure
3D adventure
Collectathon
Exploration
First person adventure
Narrative adventure
On-Rails adventure
Point and click adventure

Arcade

Arcade
Arcade action (coin-op)
Bat and ball/brick breaker
Endless runner
Pinball
Score attack
Typing

Art and Design

Art
Architecture and buildings
Creation and design tools
Design focused games
Painting and drawing
Visualisers

Board and Card Games

Board game
Card game
Chess
Collectable Card Game (CCG) and card battlers
Deckbuilder

Casual

Clicker
Idle
Incremental
Personality tests

Cosy and Relaxing

Cosy
ASMR
Crafting
Cute
Farming
Fishing
Meditation
Nature
Photography
Relaxing
Wholesome

Developer Team

Indie
Solo Developer

Education

Documentary
Educational
Edutainment

Experimental

Experimental
Abstract
Surreal
Unique

Features and Gameplay

Airconsole
Audio only game
Cats
Charity donators
Creature collector
Custom Music
Daily challenges
Desktop overlay game
Dialogue-free (story or adventure games)
DLC
Dogs
Flight
Free to play
Friend Pass
Intentional rage game
Intentionally awkward controls
Level editor
Mobile device controllers
Motion controlled
Mouse only control
Nonlinear
One button gameplay
Online leaderboards
Procedural generation
Productivity
Quick Time Events (QTE)
Short
Social polling
Space
Steam Workshop
Tilt 5 compatibility
Trains
Twitch integration
Underwater
Voice controlled

Feelings

Comedy
Dystopian and existential dread
Emotionally charged
Festive
Mental health
Philosophical
Suspense

Fighters and Brawlers

Fighter
Beat Em Up
2D Fighter
3D Fighter (coming soon)
2D Brawler
3D Brawler

Graphical Styles

1-bit Style
Anime
Cartoon
Cel Shaded
Hand Drawn
Isometric
Low-Poly
Minimalist
Stylised (uniquely)
Voxel

Horror

Horror
Paranormal
Psychological horror

Music and rhythm

Music and rhythm
Audiovisual games
Dance games
DJ Games
Music creation
Rhythm action
Rhythmic-infused games from other genres
Rhythm platformer

Mystery

Mystery
Detective
Social deduction

Party

Party
Arena Brawler
Casino games
Microgames
Minigames
Obstacle courses
Quiz games
Team coordination

Platformer

Platformer
2D Platformer
3D Platformer
Auto runner
Ball and marble platformer
Climbing
Hardcore platformer
Parkour
Physics-based platformer
Precision platformer

Players

1 Player
2 Player
3 player
4 player
5 player
6 player
7 player
8 player
9 player
10 player
20 player
2v2 games
Audience participation
Asynchronous multiplayer (all)
Co-op games
Local multiplayer (all)
Online multiplayer (all)

Puzzle

Puzzle
Battle puzzler
Block
Brain training
Escape room
First person puzzle
Hidden object
Jigsaw
Language and linguistics
Light puzzles
Logic
Match 3 style puzzle
Mazes
Musical puzzle
Physics-based puzzle
Programming
Puzzle platformer
Slider
Sokoban
Solitaire
Time Loop
Turn-based puzzle
Word games

Racing and driving

Racing
Arcade racing
Drift racing
Driving
Futuristic racing
Isometric racing
Kart racer
Management
Offroad
Rally
Simcade
Simracing
Stunt
Team-based racing
Time trial mode (not all are driving games)
Top-down racing
Track editor
Vehicular combat

Retro inspired

70’s inspired
80’s inspired
90’s inspired
00’s inspired

Roguelike and Roguelite

Roguelike
Roguelike deckbuilder
Roguelite
Roguelite deckbuilder
Survivors-like

RPG

RPG
Action RPG
Dungeon crawler
JRPG
Souls-like RPG (coming soon)
Strategy RPG
Tactical RPG
Turn based RPG

Sandbox

Sandbox free building
Physics playground

Shoot em up (shmup)

Shoot em up
Arena shooter
Bullet hell
First person shooter (coming soon)
Horizontal shooter
On rails shooter
Third person shooter
Top down shooter
Tunnel shooter
Twin Stick shooter
Vertical shooter

Simulation

Simulation
Agriculture
Automation
Business management
City builder
Cleaning
Colony sim
Cooking
Destruction
Economy
Life Sim
Mining
Tycoon games

Sports

Sports
Air Hockey
Athletics
Baseball
Basketball
Boxing
Esports
Extreme sports
Fishing (coming soon)
Fitness
Foosball
Futuristic
Golf
Management
Olympics
Pool and snooker
Skateboarding
Snowboarding
Tennis
Volleyball
Winter sports

Story and Narrative Focused

Based on a true story
Character drama
Choices matter
Choose your adventure
Dark comedy
Episodic
FMV adventure
Interactive book
Interactive story
Romance
Satire
Slice of life
Story rich
Text adventure and text-based games
Visual novel
Walking simulator

Strategy

Strategy
4X
Auto battler
Grand strategy (coming soon)
God game
Lane defence
Real time strategy
Real time tactics
Resource management
Time management
Tower defence
Turn based strategy
Turn based tactics
Worker placement

Virtual Reality

VR
AR
PSVR 1 games
PSVR 2 games
VR adventure
VR movie (non-interactive experiences)
VR platformer
VR puzzle
VR racing
VR rhythm
VR shooter