| Bathos | A genre of comedy that creates humor by (abrupt) transitioning between serious and commonplace or even ludicrous. |  | 2003 / 2012 | 11 games |
| Biopunk | | | 2007 / 2010 | 6 games |
| Contemporary fantasy | Sub-genre of fantasy where the fantasy elements are just out of sight for normal people in our regularly dull everyday world. Not disconnected from the modern world. |  | 1982 / 2012 | 108 games |
| Cyberpunk | A sci-fi sub-genre featuring dystopic chaos or radical change in society in the midst of high tech. Hackers, AI, mega corporations, punks, ... | | 1985 / 2012 | 93 games |
| Dark fantasy | Sub-genre that includes elements of both fantasy and horror, usually being more heavy on fantasy. | | 1989 / 2012 | 68 games |
| Detective mystery (Murder mystery;Whodunnit) | Collecting clues, often involves solving a crime; always some mystery to solve. | | 1977 / 2012 | 166 games |
| Dieselpunk | A cyberpunk derivative set in an age of petroleum engines but before the rise of the information age. | | 2000 / 2012 | 15 games |
| Dying Earth (Dying world) | The world the story takes place in is slowly dying. | | 1999 / 2010 | 6 games |
| Eco-terror | An exploitation film sub-genre about super-sized insects, animals, or similar terrorizing the world. | | 2006 / 2011 | 4 games |
| Fantasy | | | | 0 games |
| Gaslamp fantasy (Gaslight fantasy;Gaslight romance) | Edwardian/Victorian era setting with associated technologies (which might include steam) pushed to fantastic limits. An alternative to steampunk. | | 1983 / 2012 | 19 games |
| Gothic fiction | | | | 0 games |
| Hard Sci-Fi (Hard science fiction;Hard SF) | Sci-Fi that gives emphasis to scientific detail, technical detail or scientific accuracy. | | 1993 / 1994 | 6 games |
| Heroic fantasy | Fantasy sub-genre. | | 2009 / 2010 | 5 games |
| High fantasy (Epic fantasy) | The most widely used fantasy sub-genre. Generally involves grand battles or other conflicts that endanger the whole world or large portion of it, magic is prominent as are fantastic creatures. | | 1981 / 2012 | 127 games |
| Horror | | | | 0 games |
| Lovecraftian horror | A horror genre following the themes of hopelessness, utter insignificance of mankind and cosmic horrors of Lovecraft's stories. | | 1987 / 2006 | 23 games |
| Low fantasy | Sub-genre of fantasy that downplays the fantastic elements (e.g. magic) while still retaining the general fantasy theme. | | 1982 / 2012 | 42 games |
| Mythic fiction | | | 2000 / 2011 | 16 games |
| Non-science fiction | Any tags that describe something that tends to make a game considered SciFi even if it's purely factual element. | | | 0 games |
| Paranormal (Supernatural) | Paranormal elements/occurrences are included. | | 1990 / 2012 | 87 games |
| Pornography (AVG;Adult Video Game;Eroge) | Anything intended to stimulate sexually. Typically graphic display of genitals and intercourse is included. | | 1982 / 2011 | 117 games |
| Psychological horror | Horror sub-genre marked generally by lack of horrifying monsters, jump scares, and such. Building more on foreboding atmosphere and uncertainty, along with protagonist's inadequacy in defending themselves in case something does come their way. | | 1999 / 2010 | 50 games |
| Psychological thriller | A sub-genre of thrillers with heavy focus on characters. |  | 2010 / 2012 | 6 games |
| Raygun Gothic | Incorporates the visual styles of Googie, Streamline Moderne and Art Deco, often seen in retro-futuristic works. | | 1997 / 2011 | 7 games |
| Samurai Western | An obscure sub-genre of samurai and western fiction. | | 1999 / 2012 | 4 games |
| Soft Sci-Fi (Soft science fiction;Soft SF) | Somewhat opposite of hard science fiction. It places less emphasis on scientific accuracy & details & favors people & 'softer' sciences (such as social) | | 1991 / 2012 | 8 games |
| Space opera | | | 2007 / 2011 | 7 games |
| Space western | | | 1991 / 2012 | 18 games |
| Steampunk | A sub-genre of Sci-Fi and Fantasy where steam is widely used to power technology. Often, but not necessarily, with western (American old west) overtones. | | 1986 / 2012 | 58 games |
| Weird science (Super science)[super-science] | A sci-fi genre that delivers the science in a very fantastic manner, often by throwing any pretense of science out of the window. | | 1997 / 2011 | 14 games |
| Weird West | | | 1994 / 2007 | 15 games |
| Western (Wild West;American old west) | | | 1975 / 2011 | 145 games |
