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Amnesia Fortnight	Game jam held within Double Fine game studio to publicly test new game ideas.		4 games
B-Daman (ビーダマン)		1996 / 2005	8 games
Bionicle[bionicles]	A scifi/fantasy toy line from LEGO.	2001 / 2007	12 games
Hot Wheels	Brand of toy car, created by Mattel in 1968.	1985 / 2013	32 games
Strawberry Shortcake		1977 / 2011	16 games
Tamagotchi (たまごっち;Tamagocchi;Tamagotch)	Handheld digital pet created in Japan by Akihiro Yokoi and Aki Maita. It was first sold by Bandai in 1996 in Japan. Over 70,000,000 Tamagotchis have been sold world-wide as of 2008.	1996 / 2013	17 games
Tonka	American toy company most known for its signature toy trucks and construction equipment.	1999 / 2006	4 games
Transformers(トランスフォーマー)		1984 / 2024	61 games (6 characters)

themes

A Technical Limitation in UVL	Used to denote when UVL's usability is hampered by technical limits. This tag can also be used in searches as a limited work-around in some cases.	1977 / 2020	160 games
African theme	Depicts African-like cultures, architecture, people, and such in some major way without necessarily being situated in Africa.		1 game
After Earth(Earth-that-Was)[Earth that was]	Set in a time period after Earth (or whatever the homeworld of the protagonist's species is) has become uninhabitable, forgotten, or inaccessible. The people having escaped into space, another dimension/reality, or some other place.	1985 / 2016	51 games
Aging[ageing]	Characters, especially the protagonist, age over time and possibly die from it (eventually).	1985 / 2020	47 games
Alien abduction		2000 / 2014	16 games
Alien blood	Aliens, monsters, and otherworldly creatures bleed something else than red blood.	1994 / 2018	23 games
Alien invasion	Features aliens invading Earth or the protagonist's planet of residence, airspace or space territory, or is generally a major theme or plot point.	1978 / 2021	553 games
Alien menace	Some form of alien being or beings serve as the prime antagonistic force.	1980 / 2018	148 games
Alien technology (Alien artefact)	Little if at all understood alien technology or technological artefact(s) function as a major plot device.	1992 / 2017	40 games
Alphabetic Letters or characters of a language	Characters of a language(s) or letters an alphabet(s) play an important role in the game (other than interface)	1977 / 2014	95 games
Alternate character fates	The fates of alternate character choices are somehow explored.	1993 / 2009	6 games
Alternate self[alternate selves]	Player encounters alternate versions of various characters, usually "what if" kind where some life turning event didn't occur for them or some other life turning event happened instead of the original.	2004 / 2015	17 games
AMBIGUOUS: Motion sensor	This can either refer to motion controller (a type of controller for the game) or a motion detector (a tool in-game).		0 game
American Sign Language	A non-verbal natural language originating in North America used and having multiple dialects there and around the world.	1991 / 1992	2 games
Amnesia (Memory loss)	Features amnesia (a sort of memory disruption or loss) as plot device or theme.	1982 / 2023	249 games
Ancient enemy (Ancient evil)	Deals with the return of some ancient evil or other terrible foe from long "forgotten" past.	1987 / 2018	115 games
Angular	Uses visual style that employs mainly straight lines and sharp angles.	2013 / 2016	25 games
Animal menace	Animals, of any time period or type (besides humans), provide the primary antagonistic force.	1982 / 2012	2 games
Anthropomorphism	Animals or objects are given human-like attributes, such as an expressive face, ability to speak, human-like emotions, etc.	1983 / 2016	102 games
Apocalyptic	Features an impending or on-going "apocalypse".	1987 / 2024	110 games
Army Men		1995 / 2015	41 games
Art game (Art house game)	Created for the sake of the art, or whose structure is intended to produce some kind of reaction in its audience.	1977 / 2019	84 games
Artificial scanlines[Artificial interlacing]	Reproduces a certain type of retro look by introducing scanlines to the display, where every other line or column is dimmed or even completely blanked.	2012 / 2020	18 games
Artistic language	Constructed language with heavy or even sole emphasis on the aesthetic side, even going so far as lacking any real meaning beyond what it looks or sounds like.	2001 / 2018	13 games
Astrophysics (Newtonian physics)	Simulates astrophysics to some degree.	1980 / 2024	37 games
Atheist	Games where one or more of the authors with creative control was an Atheist and the game promotes the Atheism.	1988 / 1998	2 games
Atomic Age theme(Nuclear theme)	The atomic age features prominently as a theme, motif, or such with nuclear powered devices and facilities in broad use.	1976 / 2015	13 games
Auditory masking(Sound masking)	Auditory masking affects gameplay, such as environmental noise masking noise the player character makes and allowing them to be much more noisy than normal without detecting.	2005 / 2017	8 games
Augmented reality (AR;Enhanced reality)	Depicts augmented reality technology in use.	2008 / 2015	20 games
Aurorae (Auroras;Aurora;Aurora Borealis;Northern Lights;Aurora Australis;Southern Lights)	Features natural light displays in the sky caused by energy colliding with atmospheres and/or magnetospheres on earth or any other world.		1 game
Award: Computer Games Magazine Game of the Year			0 game
Award: Game Tunnel Adventure Game of the Year	Game Tunnel Adventure Game of the Year is an award.		0 game
Award: Game Tunnel Game of the Year	Award: Game Tunnel Game of the Year.		0 game
Bananas	The yellow skinned fruit of the tree-like banana plant. The peels are a humors slipping hazard. They are stereotypically desired by larger primates.	1982 / 2016	52 games
Banned		1994 / 2017	19 games
Battle of Pelennor Fields	A major battle during the War of the Ring between the city of Minas Tirith & forces of Gondor & allies, and the forces of Sauron.	1989 / 2001	10 games
Belarusian Language			2 games
Bengali Language		1996 / 1999	4 games
Bikini		1983 / 2016	22 games
Biogrowth	Features growth of large unspecified non-plant biological mass that covers land, buildings and anything else.	1998 / 2022	106 games
Biological evolution	Evolution plays part in the gameplay. Likely in the form of biological adaptation (adjusting to environmental change), spontaneous changes (mutation), or guided evolution (more advanced beings prodding and poking or influence from higher power).	1982 / 2015	39 games
Bionicles	A variation of [gametag=lego]Lego[/gametag] toys.		1 game
Biotechnology (Biomodification;Genetic engineering;Organic technology)	Features any of the various fields of manipulating organic entities, from transplants to genetic engineering, or the results thereof.	1988 / 2022	87 games
Bizarre events (Surreal events)		2003 / 2007	2 games
Bizarre flora (Bizarre vegetation;Surreal flora)	Vegetation that is abnormal, bizarre, or otherwise surreal.	2007 / 2016	6 games
Black Sheep	When 1 game of a series or a version of a game is widely perceived as far different from the others & thus inferior, even in cases of higher quality. Does not necessarily mean no-one likes the game, especially those unfamiliar with the predecessors.	1986 / 2014	38 games
Bleak(Grim)[cheerless;hopeless;grimdark]	Presents a bleak world for the player to explore, one that seems sad, hopeless, depressing, or otherwise where things are or go wrong all the time and getting them right is nigh impossible or come with heavy price.	1992 / 2018	108 games
Blocky	Designed to be very blocky in appearance, with heavy use of square/rectangle/cube shapes. Likely as an attempt to make the game seem older than it is and/or to reduce resources needed to produce graphics.	2002 / 2019	118 games
Blood & gore (Visceral;Graphic violence)	Displays unnecessarily large amounts of blood, gore and gibs. Including detailed wounds, mutilated bodies/corpses and other visceral scenes. As well as the very acts that produce them.	1983 / 2022	526 games
Blood motif (Blood theme)		2005 / 2015	13 games
Bokmal Language		1999 / 2004	6 games
BPjM/BPjS indexed	Indexed by Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien/Schriften, making the game difficult to obtain legally in Germany.	1982 / 2009	54 games
Braille Text	Information presented in Braille on screen or by using external hardware.	1991 / 2006	3 games
Branching story (Branching campaign)	The story branches off to two or more alternative lines, possibly merging at later time, giving increased replayability.	1980 / 2022	58 games
Breast fetishism (Mazophilia)	Caters to those who have sexual appeal to breasts, often of particular size (e.g. huge).	2004 / 2016	18 games
Brittle abilities (Brittle buffs)	Abilities (usually buffs) or similar that create an effect that has limited charges (until the ability is used again). Such as a attack buff that lasts for the next 3 hits, or defense buff that lasts for the next 2 hits.	2009 / 2014	12 games
Buddhist Faith	Games where one or more of the authors with creative control was Buddhist and the game promotes the Buddhist faith.	1999 / 2017	3 games
Bulky characters	All characters are depicted as excessively bulky/sturdy all around but not necessarily fat.	1988 / 2013	21 games
Bundled with hardware or peripherals	One or more releases of the game comes packaged with hardware or peripheral device(s).	1972 / 2013	55 games
Canadian English		1984 / 1999	4 games
Canadian French			4 games
Cannibalism	Depicts cannibalism, the act of eating members of your own species.	1985 / 2020	55 games
Captured Resources (Raided Resources)	When 1 side of a conflict can capture a resource & is immediately able use it to counter attack or defend.	1981 / 2020	85 games
Cardinal & ordinal navigation(Navigation via points of compass)[Intercardinal]	Navigation is accomplished by following cardinal (and/or their intermediate) directions or similar, not necessarily exact directions and may include non-compass directions such as "up" and "down". Not for fullblown compass-based navigation however.	1980 / 2021	102 games
Catholic Faith	Games where 1 or more of the authors with creative control was Catholic & the game promotes the Catholic faith directly, using symbolism, or allegory	2000 / 2012	9 games
Censored	Edited for content, received alternate promotion or restricted release, in some way other that what the author(s) intended.	1981 / 2018	158 games
Chase	The plot or gameplay is about a chase, usually in the form of police trying to catch some criminal. Regardless of which side of the chase the player is.	1985 / 2009	42 games
Christian faith	Games where one or more of the authors with creative control was Christian and the game promotes the Christian faith.	1982 / 2017	354 games (8 characters)
ChromaDepth 3D	ChromaDepth is a patented 3D technique that takes advantage of the different wavelengths of the visible light spectrum.	1991 / 2009	8 games
Chrysopoeia(Transmutation into gold)	Items are automatically or manually by the player (with no significant effort) converted into gold or other form of currency.	1998 / 2005	8 games
Cipher language (Substitution cipher)	Languages that are constructed simply by substituting characters but otherwise read as regular language the game is in.	1990 / 2019	29 games
Circadian cycle (Day/night cycle)	Day and night cycles on their own outside of plot, location, or triggered events, possibly influencing NPC activities accordingly.	1979 / 2023	488 games
Civil war	Involves any civil war, a war involving people of the same country fighting each other.	1979 / 2016	89 games
Clandestine (Covert operation;Black operation;Secret operation)	Involves activities that are kept in secret, concealed from the public eye and others, either because of their illegal or improper nature.	1982 / 2020	149 games
Class-restricted tasks(Job-restricted tasks)[Class-restricted quests;Class-restricted missions]	Includes tasks, quests, missions or such that are only available to a subset of classes or even just one.		1 game
Claymation animation	Claymation is a type of stop-motion animation achieved with malleable (often plasticine clay) characters.	1990 / 2015	84 games
Clone technology[cloning technology;clones]	Features cloning technology or its products.	1997 / 2016	34 games
Cloth dyeing (Cloth coloring:Character coloring)[cloth dyes]	Player can color their clothes either when they're acquired, made and/or at any time later (whether or not this requires visit to a dye shop or similar).	2001 / 2020	25 games
Collapsing ceiling	Whole or parts of the ceiling fall down and injure or kill the protagonist and possibly others, commonly stalactites or icicles though occasionally whole blocks.	1998 / 2014	9 games
Color scheme: Blue	The color blue is used a lot.	1994 / 2018	19 games
Color scheme: Gray/Brown[Grey/Brown]	Heavily uses a gray/brown color scheme. Likely used to help make things look worn or dingy, also to make things seem more depressing.	1993 / 2017	58 games
Color scheme: Orange/Blue	Heavily uses a orange/blue color scheme/contrast.	2008 / 2017	20 games
Color scheme: Red	The color red is used a lot.	2004 / 2018	23 games
Color scheme: Yellow/Orange	Heavily uses a yellow/orange color scheme.	1997 / 2013	8 games
Color schemes[Colour schemes]	Any heavy uses of certain choice colors.		0 game
Columnar jointing	Geologic formation that to human eyes (living in western cultures at least) tends to look artificial despite being natural, often seen with igneous rocks forming polygonal prisms.	2001 / 2019	78 games
Combat stilettos[combat stiletto heels;combat heels;combat high heels]	Characters wear stiletto heels to places where they make absolutely no sense, especially combat.	2002 / 2018	35 games
Companion (Sidekick)	Player has a companion that helps them out where and when they can.	1984 / 2020	231 games
Company first game	Each company should have one of these.	1980 / 2017	31 games
Conditional hazards	Includes hazards that can be passed through without harm under certain conditions, such as edging slowly rather than running through them.	1990 / 2011	6 games
Console Classix	Available to play at Console Classix	1977 / 2011	3513 games
Consoleclassix-pending	Maintenance tag. Console Classix has purchased at least 1 cartridge of these games, they are just not digitally copied yet (usually due to technical reasons).		1 game
Conspiracy	Features a conspiracy as a plot device or theme.	1992 / 2020	62 games
Contrasted(Burned graphics;Gamut clipped)[gamut clipping]	Uses heavily contrasting colors, making itself look brightly colorful but also dark at the same time.	1988 / 2015	19 games
Control points	Involves capture and control of certain points of interest, either as the primary or optional objective.	1983 / 2018	49 games
Coprophilia(Scat;Scatophilia)	Caters to people with coprophilia. An abnormal interest and pleasure in feces and defecation.	2009 / 2010	2 games
Cotton Crop	A sub/tropical shrub native to old & new worlds cultivated mainly for cloth made from fibrous cellulose that encases the seeds.	1988 / 2013	4 games
Created by a female author	It is rare a female has creative control of design, sometimes such are attributed to somewhat different games than those by male authors.	1977 / 2019	272 games
CRT Effects(Simulated CRT visuals)	Visuals simulate realistic, rare, or even imagined aspects of CRT displays.	1992 / 2023	34 games
Culture	Culture is part of the gameplay mechanics or is a major thematic element.	2005 / 2013	7 games
Curse (Cursed;Cursed protagonist)	The protagonist has been cursed and either bears it or is actively seeking to dispel it, or a curse otherwise plays a major role in gameplay or story.	1978 / 2018	43 games
Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL)	Professional video game league.		1 game
Damage modeling	Models the effects of damage on characters, vehicles and other things.	1988 / 2020	35 games
Dark (Perpetual night)	The environs are unusually dark, either because it's a perpetual night, you're stuck in a structure with limited light sources or anything else, forcing you to use any light source(s) you can find or cope with what little you can find in the env	1973 / 2024	423 games
Dark past[dark history]	A central location or character has past that's best left forgotten, but somehow comes back to haunt. Or this serves as a general theme.	1993 / 2016	13 games
Dark space	Outer space is realistically depicted as dark/black place instead of the usual colorful juice spill.	1977 / 2019	193 games
Darkness theme (Blackness)[The dark]	Uses darkness, shadows or similar lack of light as a thematic element.	1996 / 2018	13 games
Death of protagonist (Death of a main character)	One or more of the main characters die as part of the plot, especially in case of the protagonist.	1988 / 2019	102 games
Defunct (Shut down)	Games that are no longer playable, such as MMOs which have no official servers running anymore or ARGs with the outside of the game components long gone.	1989 / 2017	68 games
Dementia (Insanity;Madness)	Involves themes of dementia, madness and general insanity. Especially cases where the main character suffers or can suffer from this.	1995 / 2017	45 games
Demonic invasion	Demonic creatures have decided to invade our happy little reality en masse.	1990 / 2021	107 games
Demonic menace	One or more demons or other demonic beings serve as the main antagonistic force.	1994 / 2020	47 games
Desaturated[desaturation;faded;sepia]	Colors are tinted towards gray or are neutral-ish with each other.	1999 / 2018	30 games
Desolate(Lonely)	Player hardly meets anyone, people or animals.	1995 / 2022	30 games
Developed exclusively on the same platform as the target platform.	These games used no outside development system. Presumable all games are tested/tweaked, but not necessarily strictly exclusively [i]developed on[/i], their target platform.	1978 / 2016	12 games
Development Systems			0 game
Dialect: Australian English dialects	Australian English is spoken or recognizably written in the game.		1 game
Dialect: Southern American English (Southern Drawl)	Southern American English is spoken or recognizably written in the game.		4 games
Dice	Includes dice or lots objects or polygons that land on a random side.	1972 / 2017	237 games
Dielect: Texas English	Texas English is spoken or recognizably written in the game.	1984 / 2013	5 games
Digitized Still Images (Live-action stills)	Real life images or a video frame have been scanned and made into textures, sprites, and/or images within the game.	1983 / 2017	332 games
Digitized video (Live action video)	Prerecorded video clips of [i]live action[/i] are rendered digital, in full or part, and displayed within the game.	1990 / 2016	94 games
Dilapidated (Worn;Decrepit)	Gives the impression of worn down and/or poorly (or not at all) maintained habitats and such.	2003 / 2018	23 games
Dingy[Decayed;Sullied;Tarnished;Soiled;Used;Rusted;Dirty]	Gives an image of dirty, rusted and old world in state of constant decay.	1993 / 2018	63 games
Direct Distribution	The game is sold directly from the developer/producer to the consumer.	2009 / 2017	20 games
Directional energy shields	Energy shields only cover a sector or limited area rather than providing all around protection.	1991 / 2020	6 games
Discolored blood (Discolored ichor)	For whatever reason, the blood of Humans and Earthborne animals is something else than red.	1993 / 2013	22 games
Discrimination		2007 / 2016	6 games
Disease (Illness;Sickness;Plague)	Affliction(s) caused by some disease(s) is part of gameplay.	1971 / 2021	87 games
Disposable keys(Single-use keys)	Keys are for the most part single use, disappearing into nothingness the moment they're used for anything. These also commonly work for any lock rather than one or more specific ones.	1985 / 2017	39 games
Disproportionate retribution(Disproportionate retaliation)	As part of the plot, someone or some people retaliate in disproportionate manner. Such as going genocidal in response to actions of a few people.	1997 / 2019	9 games
Divine champion(Hellish champion)	The protagonist is a champion of some deity or deities, or is otherwise a powerful divine/religious figure.	1992 / 2012	14 games
Divine Menace (Godly menace)	A god or divine being, or several, serve as the main antagonistic force.	1995 / 2019	35 games
Dreams (Dreaming;Dream theme)	Features dreams or dreaming as a significant theme.	1985 / 2019	27 games
Drugs	Drugs are or can be used. Especially cases of illegal and/or addictive drugs. Even more so if the player is actively involved.	1979 / 2017	76 games
Duplicate: Other Language: Hungarian			0 game
Dying	The protagonist is nearing death with each passing moment and must actively circumvent it or to finish their task before they run out of time.	1985 / 2016	17 games
Dystopian	Gives an image of society gone bad. Literally the opposite of what utopia would be.	1982 / 2024	159 games
Elements (Prime elements)	The old prime elements of fire, water, air and earth, or any other elements the used mythos has, feature prominently in the story or gameplay.	1991 / 2015	15 games
Energy shields (Protective force fields;Deflector shields)	Includes energy shields of one sort or another, especially when employed by the protagonist.	1973 / 2020	228 games
English Language			0 game
Entity versus Entity conflict (Man versus Man)	A narrative concept and key to the plot of the game. It is the conflict that the protagonist of the game must face, and in many cases, the player also	1981 / 2017	122 games
Entity versus Invention conflict (Man versus Machine;Man versus Idea)	A narrative concept and key to the plot of the game. It is the conflict that the protagonist of the game must face, and in many cases, the player also	1982 / 2020	25 games
Entity versus Natural Order conflict (Man versus Nature;Man versus Physics;Man versus Logic;Man versus Emotion;Man versus Addiction)	A narrative concept and key to the plot of the game. It is the conflict that the protagonist of the game must face, and in many cases, the player also	1980 / 2019	89 games
Entity versus Self conflict (Man versus his own limits)	A narrative concept and key to the plot of the game. It is the conflict that the protagonist of the game must face, and in many cases, the player also	1983 / 1984	3 games
Entity versus Supernatural Entity conflict (Man versus supernatural;Man versus Fanciful;Man versus Alien)	A narrative concept and key to the plot of the game. It is the conflict that the protagonist of the game must face.	1980 / 2013	75 games
Environmental hazards			0 game
Ernesto Che Guevara (Che Guevara;El Che)	The worlds most famous revolutionary. An Argentine Marxist, politician, author, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader. His stylized image has become an icon of Counterculture.	1987 / 1988	2 games (1 characters)
Erratic foreign language(Flavour foreign language)	Foreign words or sentences are thrown in the dialogue or writing seemingly randomly, or are used inexplicably with some things such as describing technology.	1998 / 2014	25 games
Ethnicity	Any tags relating to ethnicity.		0 game
European Portuguese Language	The Portuguese language as is written and spoken in Portugal.	1996 / 2020	163 games
Evil overlord[Evil genius]	A single person has somehow gained unswerving loyalty of numerous creatures and is causing trouble in the world.	1982 / 2022	224 games
Exoskeleton	Player character wears or can wear a powered exoskeleton short of piloted robots.	2011 / 2017	9 games
Expendable	The protagonist is treated as if their existence is unimportant, failure would either mean someone else is readily available to do their job or that even failure would accomplish enough.	1998 / 2008	5 games
Explained HUD	The presence of the HUD is more or less explained in-mythos.	1983 / 2023	45 games
Explained third-person perspective(Explained third-person camera)	Third-person perspective/camera is somehow explained within the mythos.	1984 / 2018	8 games
F.B.I. (Federal Bureau of Investigation)	An institution of the executive branch of government of the USA. Created to gain information on behalf of law enforcement & later given broader powers	1988 / 2013	9 games
Factual inaccuracy		2007 / 2012	5 games
Failed project	Features a some kind of a failed project or undertaking as major recurring theme or element.	2015 / 2016	10 games
Faith	Faith is a major story element or part of the gameplay mechanics.	1994 / 2016	8 games
Faiths and Religions			0 game
False Credits (Alan Smithee)	Game where the [i]official[/i] credits are purposefully inaccurate for various reasons.		1 game
False gods	Some things are worshipped, attributed, or otherwise recognized as gods by the populace, but player is given enough evidence to claim that they're not that. Regardless if anything is done about it.	2001 / 2019	3 games
Family theme(Family-centric plot)	The story revolves around family or uses family otherwise as thematic element.	1979 / 2018	14 games
Feelies required	Each playthrough, load, character creation [i]or[/i] savegame, requires consulting a chart, map, decoder wheel, word on a page in the manual, or additional game materials.	1983 / 2021	158 games
Fictional credits (Crazy credits;Humorous credits)	Sometimes humorous/fictional credits are used to add entertainment value to a game. Such as in-game characters being credited for their in-game roles	1986 / 2008	7 games
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (Fidel Castro)	Worlds 2nd most famous revolutionary. The only leader to ever make communisum work. He toppled the Batista dictatorship & ruled Cuba for over 50 years	1987 / 1988	2 games (1 characters)
Field promotion	Protagonist gains one or more field promotions, or equivalent of.	1999 / 2009	12 games
Fiery	Extensive use of flames/fire for visual effect.	2011 / 2014	5 games
Fisher-Price	Fisher-Price is a toy and baby gear company. They have licensed their name to games also.	1988 / 1992	8 games
Flashbacks	Involves flashbacks, interactive or not.	1993 / 2020	33 games
Flying city (Flying castle;Flying fortress)[floating city]	Features one or more flying, hovering, or otherwise suspended in air castles, cities, or similar large structures you'd normally expect to see firmly on ground.	1999 / 2016	22 games
Food theme		1982 / 2022	117 games
Footbag (Foot Bag;Hacky Sack)	A squishy bag of sand or pellets designed to be maneuvered by head, elbow, knee, shoulder or a shoed foot into to air repeatedly for fun or sport.	1987 / 1989	13 games
Forbidden technology	Involves technology forbidden from being used in any capacity within the mythos.		2 games
Forced aggro[taunting]	Players and/or some enemies can somehow force others (including other players) to attack themselves or others, usually via some taunting mechanic. Not applicable if players are immune to this.		3 games
Forgotten past (Forgotten history)		1998 / 2015	13 games
Fortune Telling	Predicting the future of someone for their benefit, often in exchange for money. Prophecy is often mistaken for Fortune Telling.	1985 / 2016	21 games
Fuel crisis (Oil crisis;Oil depletion)	Involves a fuel crisis crippling the world, with possibly the story's events being caused by it or otherwise related to it.	1973 / 2014	20 games
Fueled by Death (Fueled by Destruction)	These games depend on the phenomenon of time, fuel, or some other resource mysteriously harvested merely by destruction or death of enemies or items	1981 / 2016	66 games
Game show (Reality show)	Made-up game show.	1986 / 2020	39 games
Gameplay mechanic explained(Explained gameplay elements;In-mythos gameplay elements)	Some purely gameplay related mechanic is explained in-mythos.	1981 / 2014	8 games
Gang war		2008 / 2020	9 games
Gas physics(Gas dynamics)	Gases move according to airflow or relative weight (lighter gases going up, heavier down), subvert each other, oversaturate, etc.		1 game
Gender ratio discrepancy	Both genders are present, but the ratio between them is notably strange, such as single or only few females in otherwise all male cast (consisting of dozens or even hundreds).	1997 / 2014	38 games
Genetic memory (Racial memory)	Deals with the concept of genetic memory.	1992 / 2012	10 games
Geography	A knowledge of real world geography is needed to play. This is often associated with educational titles.	1972 / 2014	57 games
Georgian Language		1996 / 1999	3 games
Gigeresque	Uses graphics similar to H. R. Giger's works.	1988 / 2015	19 games
Gloomy[Dark]	The art style is gloomy, dark but not in a way that obscures visibility.	1991 / 2018	40 games
Glow suits	Characters, especially the protagonist, wear suits, armor, clothes, or similar with glowy blibs or strips.	2006 / 2014	48 games
Glowing eyes	Characters and other creatures have inexplicably glowing or otherwise light emitting eyes, commonly either to show they're evil or powerful.	1997 / 2020	94 games
Glowing veins	Characters and other creatures have inexplicably glowing or otherwise light emitting veins, commonly to show something unnatural/supernatural flowing through them, such as a little too much magic.	2004 / 2014	15 games
Gold in any form	Be it currency, jewelry, dust, nuggets, ingots, bars, leaf, ore, or circuitry.		0 game
Gothic architecture	An architectural style that favors tall structures (columns, windows, etc.) that make humans feel small and insignificant.	2002 / 2011	6 games
Grand scale(Massive scale;Epic scale)[grand scope;massive scope;epic scope]	The scale of the events reach across the globe, galaxy, the universe, reality itself, or across multiple realities.	1972 / 2017	154 games
Growing protagonist	The main character is a child (or a baby) at the beginning, and grows, becoming adult during the game.	1984 / 2021	55 games
Gujarati Language		1996 / 1999	3 games
Gum (Chewing Gum, Bubble Gum)		1983 / 1984	4 games
Hammer and anvil NPC tactics(Enemies spawn behind)	NPC enemies use hammer and anvil tactics - where one force attacks from front while another comes from directly behind, cutting off the fallback route the player(s) originally came from (and presumably made safe) - or spawn in to seem like they do.		1 game
Harem	The protagonist has multiple simultaneous long-term romantic and/or sexual relationships more or less openly. At bare minimum this involves 3 people besides the protagonist, though usually involves far more.	2006 / 2015	5 games
Hate groups(Extremist haters)[Ku Klux Klan;The Klan]	Features one or more hate groups that advocate and practice hostility and violence of some racial, ethnic, sexual, gender, or religious group. Likely bearing some similarities with Ku Klux Klan.	2013 / 2015	5 games
Health care	Has overarching theme of health care.	1982 / 2018	45 games
Heavy specularity(Glossy;Plastic)	Heavily uses graphics effects that gives almost everything a glossy, plastic appearance. Usually from overuse of certain kinds of specular lighting or bump mapping. Especially if there's complete lack of matte surfaces.	2000 / 2015	19 games
Hirelings (Hired characters)	Player can meet people or other beings they can hire to join them temporarily until they die, become incapacitated, or their contract ends.	1975 / 2015	24 games
Honorable foes[honourable foes]	Enemies refuse to attack from behind, together in groups, or in some other dishoronorable manner.	2003 / 2014	5 games
Horse game	Doesn't just have horses, the game is solely about them.	1980 / 2014	75 games
Hourglass figures	Characters, though mainly females, have consistently a hourglass figure.		1 game
Human experiments (Experiments on sentients)	Involves humans or other sentient creatures unwillingly being subjected to experiments.	1994 / 2017	82 games
Human menace	Humans in general function as the main antagonistic force.	1984 / 2013	10 games
Humanity	Humanity (not as species) plays a part in the game's story or is part of the game mechanics in some manner.	2000 / 2018	14 games
Hunted	Player is hunted by someone or something for a significant portion of the game.	1982 / 2020	33 games
Hydrologic cycle(Water cycle)	Continuous water movement on planet surfaces, subsurface, & atmosphere as it changes liquid, vapor, & ice states (water/clouds/snow) is simulated.	2001 / 2014	5 games
Hypothermia	Simulates effects of hypothermia in some manner.	2002 / 2018	24 games
IGF finalist nominee		1999 / 2015	48 games
Immortality	Features immortality as a concept, theme or plot point.	1992 / 2019	9 games
Implants	Player can install cybernetic, biological or mechanical implants to themselves that somehow improve their performance by various means.	1994 / 2017	34 games
In development	Not yet properly published/released, but is still in active development, or was when the game entry was last updated.	2009 / 2022	451 games
In-built traps	Traps built right into the structures, often the structures themselves contributing as traps.	1985 / 2018	111 games
Incest	Features incest, sexual and/or romantic relationships between close biological relatives, though in some instances stepfamily can also be considered.	1996 / 2017	17 games
Inconsistent style	The art style is inconsistent within the game, either on purpose, by lack of or poor art direction, or lack of resources.	1992 / 2016	10 games
Independence war	Features any factual or fictitious war of independence.	1994 / 2014	10 games
Industrial theme		2006 / 2014	8 games
Inept veteran (Incapable veteran;Inexperienced veteran)	The protagonist is presented as a veteran, but they're surprisingly inept despite this.	1988 / 2021	81 games
Injuries	Getting wounded has much broader effects beyond simple loss of health points.	1988 / 2020	103 games
Insectoid menace	Insects, spiders, or other insect-like beings function as the main antagonistic force.	1982 / 2014	26 games
Insectoid theme	Involves insects or insectoids as central thematic element.	1978 / 2017	43 games
Intentionally bad(Bad on purpose)	Has been made intentionally bad in some manner. Such as by mimicking B-movies.	2003 / 2014	12 games
Invention versus Invention conflict (Machine versus Machine)	A non-classic narrative concept and key to the plot of the game. It is the conflict that the protagonist of the game must face.		1 game
Irish Language (Gaeilge Language)		1996 / 2013	6 games
Jewish	Games where one or more of the authors with creative control was Jewish and the game promotes the Jewish faith.		1 game
Judaism Faith	Games where one or more of the authors with creative control practiced Judaism & the game promotes Judaism directly, using symbolism, or allegory.	1982 / 2006	16 games (6 characters)
Kabuki Visuals (歌舞伎)	Has visuals inspired by Kabuki theatre. Sing. Dance. Skill.		1 game
Kannada Language		1996 / 1999	3 games
Koei best (光栄ベスト)	Re-released japanese games published by Koei, sold for ¥2,800 (Saturn, PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2) or ¥3,800 (PlayStation 2).	1995 / 2006	11 games
Language content: Insignificant	For games that give no instructions, significant story, nor any critical language based information; they can be intuitively operated without knowledge of any language.	1972 / 2022	2024 games
Language: Chiquitistani		2007 / 2008	3 games
Last hope	The protagonist (and possibly a small group of allies, friends, or coworkers) is presented as the last hope to prevent - or last one(s) capable of preventing - some great disaster.	1992 / 2016	14 games
Last official game for the platform	The last game, or games if published on the same day, sold in retail outlets for a retired platform in the last region sold. Often these are the best ones.	1984 / 2008	33 games
Latvian Language		1996 / 2010	4 games
Law vs Good	Plays with ideas of law, lawfulness, and following the rules being opposed to what is good. Especially if those laws themselves are impartial or even seemingly good themselves.	1987 / 2019	26 games
Lego	Based on any Lego products, be it their bricks, other pieces you construct things from, or anything else they've made up.	1995 / 2023	202 games
Lethal objects	Objects that collide with the player character, environment or enemies and do a fair bit of damage, possibly even killing anyone they collide with. Commonly encountered as large boulders rolling down a hill.	1981 / 2016	95 games
Level equalization(Level matching)	Going with too high level character to a lower level mission or similar causes the character to be temporarily de-leveled or otherwise nerfed. Or in reverse where too low level character gets temporarily level boosted or buffed for high level mission.	2013 / 2015	2 games
Levelless RPG	Despite being an RPG, no level system is present to gauge the relative power of the characters and monsters. Usually these are purely skill-based.	1985 / 2014	23 games
Liberated	A formally proprietary game officially released as open-source, freeware, and/or at no cost.	1989 / 1991	4 games
License change	The license by which the game is available has changed since release, such as formerly commercial game becoming freeware or open source, or formerly free game becoming commercial/proprietary.	1980 / 2019	347 games
License: Cross-platform	Single purchase from at least one official vendor entitles customer to copies on multiple platforms.	1998 / 2019	319 games
License: Multiple copies	Buying the game from [i]anywhere[/i] gives 2 or more copies of it.	1986 / 2013	13 games
Light	Uses light as a central thematic element or motif. Not necessarily dealing with darkness in any similar manner.	2015 / 2016	3 games
Limited shop stock	Shops have limited number of items available that the player may want to purchase in large quantities, such as restoratives or ammo.	1997 / 2015	6 games
Liquid physics (Liquid dynamics)[Water dynamics;Water physics]	Liquids and semi-solid substances (such as water, acid, lava, mud, etc.) flow, pool, and otherwise dynamically interacts with the world.	1991 / 2020	37 games
Lolicon (Lolita complex;Lolikon;Rorikon;ロリコン)		1983 / 2015	10 games
Low poly	Polygons of the 3D meshes are consistently clearly distinguishable without effort on resolution and display size the game was aimed for for vast majority of objects. Mostly of interest for games where this is not to deal with hardware limitations.	2011 / 2020	19 games
Lowtech Future	Though set significantly in the future there is a notable lack or inavailability of new futuristic technology.	1982 / 2015	18 games
Magazine (Printed media)	Distributed in a magazine or other printed media, typically as a type-in program.	1980 / 1995	288 games
Magic: Common	Magic is depicted as common, everyday thing. Either everyone can use it without problems or magical artefacts are so widespread it's hard to distinguish who actually has aptitude with it or not.	2011 / 2014	4 games
Maiden voyage	A new vehicle or such is put into use for the first time, often in a desperate try for it to change the tide of a losing war.	1999 / 2017	10 games
Major League Gaming (MLG)	A North American professional videogame league.	2001 / 2011	16 games
Malay Language		1996 / 2010	4 games
Malayalam Language		1996 / 1999	4 games
Meaningful title	The game's title is somehow meaningful within the game's context.	1988 / 2018	20 games
Mechanical transformation(Self-reconfiguring vehicle;Self-reconfiguring robot)	Features vehicles, robots or such self-reconfiguring from one form to something completely different.	1985 / 2018	58 games
Media			0 game
Megacorporations (Corporatocracy)	Features conglomerates so powerful that they can ignore law, have armed forces of their own and even function as "nations" onto themselves. Often depicted as evil and devoid of morals.	1988 / 2019	153 games
Methodist Denomination	Games where one or more of the authors with creative control was Methodist and the game promotes Methodisms directly, using symbolism, or allegory.		1 game
Mind control	The story or gameplay features some type of control over the minds of others, whether done by the protagonist(s), their allies, their enemies or someone or something else.	1985 / 2019	104 games
Minecarts	Minecarts serve as a vehicle, container, and/or a manipulateble object. Often for fast subterranean travel involving jumps & split-second track switching	1991 / 2019	59 games
Minions (Underlings)	Player has or can have any number of underlings at her beck and call.	1975 / 2016	59 games
Monochromatic[monochrome]	Uses only shades of single color.	2016 / 2017	6 games
Monster friend[monstrous friend]	Whatever the fairly normal protagonist (for a video game character) has, is a (usually giant) monster or similar being.	1999 / 2016	8 games
Mormon Faith	Games where one or more of the authors with creative control was Mormon and the game promotes the Mormon faith directly, using symbolism, or allegory.	1988 / 2007	4 games
Morse Code	The game uses Morse Code to communicate information either between characters or between the game and player(s)	1984 / 2016	22 games
Mr.T (Laurence Tureaud)	Features Mr. T, a popular 80s toughguy personality. Known for wearing copious amounts of gold, a mohawk hairdo and growling 'I pity the Fool.'	1982 / 2019	16 games
Multiple players can share a single copy of the game.		2000 / 2021	6 games
Multiple players each have a copy of the game.	Normal and uninteresting unless this is refers to an optional mode for a game that also has at least one mode where players share a single media.	2006 / 2008	2 games
Multiple players must use multiple copies of the game.			1 game
Muslim Faith	Games where one or more of the authors with creative control was Muslim and the game promotes the Muslim faith.		1 game
Mutagen	Features a mutagenic substance or agent that causes massive and rapid mutations, often turning whoever comes in contact with it into monsters.	1993 / 2023	57 games
Myth magnet	The protagonist is a perplexing magnet for mythical things, often gaining a large number of legendary or mythic artefacts over the course of the game.	1998 / 2017	22 games
Nano technology (Nanites;Nanorobotics;Nanofabrication;Nanolithography;Nanobots)	Features nano technology or its products.	1997 / 2017	57 games
National Aeronautics and Space Administration	USA's government run space program. Despite advancing many sciences, including videogames, it is most famous for moon landings & space shuttles.	1972 / 2011	23 games
Natural disaster	Depicts a major natural disaster or events immediately caused by it.	1981 / 2013	23 games
Natural disasters	Earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, meteor strikes, and all other kinds of natural disasters come to make your life difficult.	1978 / 2015	91 games
Natural hazards	The player must face wind, cold and other natural hazards.	1980 / 2015	23 games
Natural languages	Any tags relating to natural languages.		0 game
Natural versus Invention conflict (Nature versus Machine)	A non-classic narrative concept and key to the plot of the game. It is the conflict that the protagonist of the game must face.	1982 / 2011	17 games
Natural versus Natural conflict (Nature versus Nature)	A non-classic narrative concept and key to the plot of the game. It is the conflict that the protagonist of the game must face.	1982 / 2014	16 games
Nature theme	Nature serves as a major thematic element.	1997 / 2019	40 games
Navigation			0 game
Neo-medieval			3 games
Neon (Glowing)	Gives the impression of things in the game world being made of lit neon sign tubes, or like materials. Dark backgrounds enhance the effect.	2006 / 2021	133 games
Nintendo Selects (Player's Choice)	[b]Nintendo Selects[/b], formerly known as [b]Player's Choice[/b] before 2011, is a marketing label utilized by Nintendo to promote video games on Nintendo game consoles which have sold many copies.	1989 / 2023	116 games
No saves	Player has no permanent game progress saves of any kind.	1978 / 2021	144 games
No UPC (No EAN;No GTIN;No JAN)	Product does not have a UPC, EAN, JAN, or GTIN compliant barcode despite a release year suggesting it should. But it may have some other barcode.	1990 / 2008	6 games
Nonsense (Nonsensical;Bizarre)	What you do, what you're required to do, what is actually happening, what works and what doesn't, etc. don't exactly make much sense when viewed by an outsider. But not in a way to make this surreal experience.	1987 / 2015	37 games
Nostalgia[pre-game nostalgia]	Protagonist talks about or generally refers to events before the start of the game somewhat frequently, especially when these are not relevant to the plot but rather as a way to establish the protagonist as a person.		1 game
Not on Console Classix	Not available to play at Console Classix	1983 / 2016	1006 games
NPC stamina	NPCs suffer from the effects of having stamina meter or similar much like the player does.		2 games
Nuclear solution[nuclear option]	Nuclear detonation is provided as The Only solution to some problem, even if it's easy to find others if one would just look away from the nukes.	1983 / 2017	13 games
Obscured protagonist dialog(Non-specific protagonist dialog)	A variant of silent protagonist where the protagonist does not appear to say anything, but other character dialogue goes as if they had, such as responding to things that player never heard said by the protagonist.	2005 / 2017	13 games
Observer(Spectator)	Player (character) is aware of an observer to their actions, other than a counselor, mission command, tactical officer, or similar that is expected to function as such.	1998 / 2015	19 games
OBSOLETE: Humor	Flag the games as `humorous´ instead.	2008 / 2019	6 games
Occitan Language		1996 / 1999	4 games
Odd rulers (Odd gods)	The rulers, gods, or similar have decidedly strange perceptions on their responsibilities or things that their underlings should do for them (or are just plain odd in general).	2000 / 2018	6 games
One of a kind	The protagonist is the only one of his/her kind, there's no others like him/her.	1999 / 2018	23 games
One of many	The protagonist is one of many on a single side, whether or not the others actually manage to do anything useful.	2001 / 2015	37 games
Organic theme (Biological theme)	Uses organic design or otherwise depicts organic themes prominently.	1986 / 2022	35 games
Organized crime (Criminal organizations;Criminal syndicates)		1982 / 2020	80 games
Other compatibility issues	Game has various compatibility issues not covered by other compatibility tags.		1 game
Other Language: A computer language	This tag is not indicating the source code of the game. Rather it indicates one of the languages used in the game is in fact a computer language.	1979 / 2021	36 games
Other Language: Afrikaans		2003 / 2017	11 games
Other Language: Albanian		1996 / 1999	4 games
Other Language: American English (US English)	(nearly always) Only in cases when available in a variety of distinct English variations.	1981 / 2017	31 games
Other Language: Amharic			2 games
Other Language: Arabic (الْعَرَبيّة;al-ʿarabiyyah;عَرَبيْ;ʿarabī)		1987 / 2023	94 games
Other Language: Azerbaijani (Azeri Turkish)			3 games
Other Language: BASIC (computer language)	This tag is not indicating the source code of the game. Rather it indicates one of the languages used in the game is in fact BASIC.	1982 / 1983	7 games
Other Language: Basque (Euskara)		1996 / 2013	10 games
Other Language: Bosnian		1996 / 2005	2 games
Other Language: Brazilian Portuguese		1992 / 2023	492 games
Other Language: British English (UK English)	Nearly always applies in cases when the game is available in a variety of distinct English variations.	1981 / 2017	46 games
Other language: Bulgarian (български език;Bălgarski)		1996 / 2020	75 games
Other Language: Cantonese (粵語;粤语;廣東話;广东话;廣州話;廣府話;广州话;广府话;白話)			1 game
Other language: Castellano (Castilian)	Spanish spoken in the Castile region.	1992 / 2019	26 games
Other Language: Catalan (catalán;català;Valencian)	Spanish dialect.	1995 / 2017	36 games
Other Language: Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ;Tsalagi Gawonihisdi)			1 game
Other Language: Croatian (hrvatski jezik)		1996 / 2013	11 games
Other Language: Dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ;rdzong-kha;Jong-kă;Ngalopkha)	The national language of Bhutan. Notable for Microsoft's attempt to internationally rename it as if they had the authority too.		2 games
Other Language: Early Modern English	ie: Ye (pronounced Thee /ðiː/), Thou, thy, thine. Early Modern English, sometimes mistaken for Shakespearian or so called 'King James English' which are subsets & mixtures of it.	1986 / 2020	4 games
Other Language: Esperanto		1980 / 2014	9 games
Other Language: Estonian (eesti keel)		1996 / 2013	22 games
Other Language: Farsi (Persian;فارسی;پارسی)		1996 / 2010	8 games
Other Language: Flemish (Vlaams)			1 game
Other Language: Galician (galego)		1996 / 2017	10 games
Other Language: Greek (Ελληνικά;Ellìniká;Hellenic)		1988 / 2020	116 games
Other language: Hindi (हिन्दी)		1996 / 2011	8 games
Other Language: Hungarian (Magyar;magyar nyelv)		1982 / 2020	216 games
Other Language: Icelandic (íslenska)[Islandic]		1995 / 2010	9 games
Other Language: Indonesian		1988 / 2021	15 games
Other Language: Kongo (Kikongo)			4 games
Other Language: Latin (lingua Latīna)		1984 / 2017	22 games
Other language: Latin American Spanish			2 games
Other Language: Leet (31337;1337;l33t;leetspeek;l33tspeak;l33t5p34k;1337speak;13375p34k)		1993 / 2002	5 games
Other Language: Lithuanian (lietuvių kalba)		1993 / 2013	14 games
Other Language: Macedonian (македонски јазик;makedonski jazik)		1996 / 2004	5 games
Other Language: Mandarin Chinese (官話;官话;guānhuà)		1998 / 2008	7 games
Other Language: Northern Sami (Sámegiella;Davvisámegiella;Davvisámi;Davvisaami;Lappish;Lapp)		1996 / 2010	2 games
Other Language: Norwegian (Norse;Norsk)		1979 / 2020	193 games
Other Language: Redneck			4 games
Other Language: Romanian (limba română)		1996 / 2020	88 games
Other Language: Serbian (српски језик;srpski jezik)		1996 / 2013	12 games
Other Language: Simplified Chinese text (简化字;简体字)	A new set of Chinese characters designed to be less complex than the originals. Some include phonetic info, some are unchanged. Less popular than [url=/groups/info/langchinesetrad]異體字[/url].	1996 / 2023	380 games
Other Language: Slovak (slovenčina;slovenský jazyk)		1987 / 2020	36 games
Other Language: Slovenian		1996 / 2015	14 games
Other Language: Svenska			0 game
Other Language: Swedish		1989 / 2015	3 games
Other Language: Swiss-German (Deutschschweiz)			1 game
Other Language: Taiwanese (臺灣話;臺語)	Language derived from Min Nan Chinese.	1989 / 2010	11 games
Other Language: Taiwanese Chinese		1999 / 2013	5 games
Other Language: Taiwanese Mandarin (台灣國語;台灣華語)	National language of Taiwan spoken practically by all.	2001 / 2005	2 games
Other language: Tamil (தமிழ்)		1996 / 2003	4 games
Other Language: Thai (ภาษาไทย;phasa thai)		1996 / 2023	86 games
Other Language: Traditional Chinese text (異體字;Chinese complex characters;繁體字;Chinese old characters;老字;全體字)	A set of original Chinese characters that are more complex than the new [url=/groups/info/langchinesesimpl]simplified Chinese characters[/url]. 異體字 is more widely used among Chinese speakers.	1997 / 2023	192 games
Other Language: Turkish (Türkçe)		1995 / 2023	216 games
Other Language: Ukrainian		1996 / 2020	110 games
Other language: Vetnamese(Tiếng Việt)		1996 / 2021	16 games
Other language: Walloon (Walon)		1996 / 1999	4 games
Outbreak (Epidemic;Pandemic)	Features a major disease or viral outbreak. Or something that causes similar results.	1972 / 2019	120 games
Over the top(Outrageous;Overdramatic)[over-the-top]	Frequently overdoes the drama, action, or anything else to a point where what happens is ludicrous.	2003 / 2020	24 games
Pachisi Variant	Any game that s not Pachisi but based on it or being fellow variant including Caupur, Chaupar, Chaupur, Chausar, Ludo, Sorry, Parcheesi, Trouble, & Twenty-Five	1988 / 1992	14 games
Pacific Digital Video (PacDV)	PacDV is an award winning documenter production company that provides some free digital content on their site for use in other people's projects.		4 games
Pack-in (Bundled with system)	Officially packaged with or built-in to the consoles or the operating systems.	1972 / 2015	178 games
Papercraft visuals		2001 / 2015	12 games
Partners In Rhyme	Uses content provided by PIR.		4 games
Penalty imposed for harming non-combatants	Penalizes player(s) if they in any way harm players or game characters who are not fighting against the protagonist(s).	1979 / 2017	55 games
Permanent metamorphosis (Permanent shapechange;Permanent transformation)	Features a character experiencing a non-reversible metamorphosis into something else, especially when this happens to a main character.	1994 / 2015	38 games
Persistent weather	Some unusual (fog, rain, high wind, storm, etc.) weather phenomena persist far longer than it naturally should or is otherwise somehow ever present.	1999 / 2010	7 games
Personal protection	Any tags describing things the player character can use to protect themselves or are protected with.		0 game
Pixelated	Intentionally runs with pixel doubling, tripling, or something - such as the graphics are designed to look like it - that brings out the pixels to visible levels as they used to be in old games.	1986 / 2024	535 games
Planet looters	A group, faction, organization, whole species, or something that strip mines planets of their minerals, biological matter, and anything else there might be worth taking. Often with complete disregard for who or what lives on those planets.	1997 / 2016	34 games
Player teasing		2005 / 2017	6 games
PlayStation Home	Somehow interacts with the PlayStation Home, such as providing additional objects for use in it.		1 game
Podophilia (Foot fetishism)	Includes or caters to people with foot fetishism; a pronounced sexual interest in feet. It is one of the most common fetishes known to history.		1 game
Power armor [exoskeleton]	Player character wears or can wear a power armor or powered exoskeleton short of piloted robots.	1984 / 2023	205 games
Precognition	Precognition plays an important part in the story.	2004 / 2005	4 games
Precursors (Those who came before)	The story involves people - or some remains of them - that existed long, long ago.	1992 / 2024	54 games
Prejudice		2007 / 2017	16 games
Prétendre (Rebranded)	A game that is retooled or merely renamed in order that it be marketed as a belonging to a totally unrelated series of games.	1982 / 2008	27 games
Propaganda	The protagonist is subjected to and possibly subjects others to significant quantity of propaganda.	1985 / 2016	22 games
Property damage penalty(Collateral damage penalty)	Player is penalized for damaging random property.	1994 / 2014	15 games
Psychedelic Visuals	Metaphysical, surreal, kaleidoscopic, fractal, paisley, extremely contrasting, detail stylization, morphic, phosphenes, spiral, concentrics, diffractions, entoptic, untypography, hand-letter, and/or warped visuals	1990 / 2019	20 games
Psychic technology(Psitech)	Includes devices, machinery and whatever else that is powered by or otherwise interacts with psychic powers.	1998 / 2015	14 games
Punjabi Language		1996 / 1999	3 games
Quantum physics (Quantum mechanics;Quantum technology)	Features the use of quantum mechanics, fictional or factual.	1997 / 2017	8 games
Radioactive glow (Nuclear glow)[radiation glow]	Radioactive or irradiated substances, things or creatures glow. Commonly green, but occasionally orange.	1998 / 2020	23 games
Rampage(Running amok;Going postal)[serial killing;mass murder;mass destruction]	Plot involves the protagonist going on a rampage, killing spree, mass murder, bout of mass violence or destruction, or something similar.	1981 / 2011	62 games
Rampant crime	Crime is extremely common within the depicted setting, with the police (if such even exists to begin with) or equivalent woefully undermanned and under-equipped to deal with it or is even working for the bigger criminals.	1992 / 2020	20 games
Rape(Non-consensual intercourse;Rape fantasy)[non-con sex]	Depicts non-consensual intercourse; possibly with the player character partaking in it, fighting against it, or simply witnessing it.	1986 / 2019	41 games
Rapid promotions	Protagonist gains several promotions over the course of the game, possibly on the field.	1999 / 2008	5 games
Real crisis	Based on a real crisis, either one that passed, is on-going or is predicted to happen in near future.	1986 / 2011	13 games
Realistic shotguns(Medium range shotguns)	Instead of being glorified melee weapons that has effective range of only about 15 meters if even that, in these games they actually are closer to reality with effective range of 30 to 50 meters with shot ammo and up to 70 meters with slug ammo.	1996 / 2016	37 games
Recalled (Replaced)	Pulled out from retail stores, usually due to severe bugs or other issues in the release that somehow passed through without notice. Later put back in in slightly altered form.	2009 / 2015	7 games
Recycled title(Re-used title)	Re-uses title of an older game in the same series without being a remake of it.	2008 / 2017	27 games
Redeemed from Steam	This game can be upgraded from a steam provided service to a fully owned game.		1 game
Resistance movement(Rebellion;Freedom fighters;Insurgency)	A resistance or similar movement is taking place during the story, possibly with the player helping or fighting it.	1983 / 2020	181 games
Resource crisis	Involves a resource crisis crippling the world, with possibly the story's events being caused by it or otherwise related to it.	1983 / 2013	22 games
Restorative gluttony(Potion gluttony;Potion addiction;Restorative addiction)	Promotes gameplay where player stocks their inventory full of restorative items and constantly consumes them during normal play. These restoratives are usually also easily found as regular loot from enemies.	1996 / 2021	43 games
Rotoscoping	Used rotoscoping in production.	1984 / 2014	52 games
Savior	The protagonist is recognized by people as someone who will save them from one thing or another, before they do the saving.	1993 / 2015	12 games
Science			0 game
Screaming	Player hears screaming fairly frequently throughout the game. Can be part of comedic effect, but also found in more darker games as means of unnerving the player.	2012 / 2014	2 games
Seasons	Seasons change and somehow affect gameplay.	1992 / 2020	34 games
Secret society (Secret organization)	The story involves one or more secret society or similar entity.	1984 / 2018	47 games
Semaphore	Distant visual communication using two angles and contrasting colors to encode information. Single or dual color flags & gloved hands are common media	1989 / 1998	4 games
Semi-barriers	Includes barriers of one form or another that block some things while letting others pass that player must interact with in this capacity, such as metal grids that allow you to pick and place items but deny attacking, throwing, or moving through them.	2014 / 2015	2 games
Semi-seamless	The game world is seamless except for instances where it makes sense, such as when transitioning between planets, cities, or other large locales that are not logically connected. As in, there's no gameplay of any kind involved between the locations.		1 game
Sentient artefact (Sentient weapon)	Includes at least one item that expresses sentience to a degree, commonly by talking to the wielder and possibly people around them.	1993 / 2019	82 games
Sentient structure(Sentient building)[Haunted house;Sentient house]	Features one or more structures such as houses, monoliths, castles, etc. that express sentience, self-awareness, and such. Usually with the ability to talk to their residents and people near them.	2006 / 2014	5 games
Separate Language Versions	At least one language preference requires a separate package or version rather than having a single version of the game.	2008 / 2013	5 games
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Games where 1 or more of the authors with creative control was member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church & the game promotes its faith directly, using symbolism, or allegory.		6 games
Shinto religion	Games where one or more of the authors with creative control was involved in Shinto and the game promotes Shinto directly, or using symbolism, or allegory	1986 / 2018	25 games
Simulated trust		2002 / 2017	9 games
Single gender	Only one gender is present among all significant participating characters (allies, foes, and neutrals with exception of bystanders and possibly cutscene only characters).	1993 / 2017	91 games
Single gender allies	Both genders are present, but all of your immediate allies (such as team members) are of the same gender with no variation.	2010 / 2015	2 games
Single gender opposition	Both genders are present, but all of your opponents are of the same gender with no variation.	1996 / 2020	41 games
Singled out	Even with multiple equally worthy targets running around, your enemies target the character you're in control much more fervently, even exclusively.	2000 / 2017	17 games
Situations	Tags describing the situation, such as a catastrophe, getting lost, work incident, war, etc.		0 game
Slobbery (Wet and slimy)	Gives off an unusually wet/slimy impression, especially if the various characters (or even places) drool, ooze or otherwise secrete liquids or slime a lot.	1993 / 2014	27 games
Slovene Language			2 games
Snowball items(Snowballing equipment)	Includes items/equipment that become more powerful as they're used, usually up to a point.	2009 / 2014	3 games
Solo mission	The protagonist is sent to do their job alone. No-one else is there to do the stuff they're supposed to.	1988 / 2020	98 games
Solo project (Single author)	Created fully (code, design, art, sounds, music, etc.) by single person.	1983 / 2016	46 games
Souls	Souls of the dead or living play a part, either as a theme or game mechanic.	1999 / 2017	35 games
Source Code lost, misplaced, or destroyed.	Usually accidental, sometimes thoughtlessly, to often maliciously. In some cases it may be recoverable or reconstructed through reverse engineering.	1973 / 2014	29 games
Speech: African	Despite the release locale and set language, some or all of the voice overs are in some native African tongue.		3 games
Speech: Afrikaans	Despite the release locale and set language, some or all of the voice overs are in Afrikaans.		1 game
Speech: Chinese (Mandarin;Cantonese)	Despite the release locale and set language, some or all of the voice overs are in Chinese.	2011 / 2013	6 games
Speech: Farsi(Persian;فارسی;پارسی)	Despite the release locale and set language, some or all of the voice overs are in Farsi.	2012 / 2015	2 games
Speech: Finnish	Despite the release locale and set language, some or all of the voice overs are in Finnish.		3 games
Speech: French	Despite the release locale and set language, some or all of the voice overs are in French.	2006 / 2009	11 games
Speech: German	Despite the release locale and set language, some or all of the voice overs are in German.	1989 / 2014	20 games
Speech: Gibberish(Gibberish voice-overs)[Nonsense]	The characters speak gibberish. Ranging from randomly ordered "alien" or "foreign" words that repeat over and over again or utter gibberish that has no clear traits of any language besides sounding vaguely speech-like.	1988 / 2018	56 games
Speech: Italian	Despite the release locale and set language, some or all of the voice overs are in Italian.	2006 / 2011	5 games
Speech: Japanese	Despite the release locale and set language, some or all of the voice overs are in Japanese.	2008 / 2014	11 games
Speech: Korean	Despite the release locale and set language, some or all of the voice overs are in Korean.	2007 / 2010	3 games
Speech: Russian	Despite the release locale and set language, some or all of the voice overs are in Russian.	2009 / 2015	12 games
Speech: Slavic	Despite the release locale and set language, some or all of the voice overs are in some Slavic tongue.	2007 / 2015	8 games
Speech: Spanish	Despite the release locale and set language, some or all of the voice overs are in Spanish.	2005 / 2011	9 games
Speech: Swedish	Despite the release locale and set language, some or all of the voice overs are in Swedish.		1 game
Spouse protagonist(Espoused protagonist;Married protagonist)	The protagonist is currently married, engaged, or in similar arrangement with another.	1987 / 2023	34 games
Stained Glass	The game world is visual presented as if it were stained glass.		3 games
Stalemate War	Deals with battles or war that ended with no clear victor.	1982 / 2009	12 games
Story time span	Any tags related to how long time span a story covers.		0 game
Stranded	The protagonist is stranded in some remote and/or unknown place where he/she has no immediate or even known possible way back home.	1981 / 2019	252 games
Streamer scarf(Streamer cloak)	The protagonist wears a scarf that is abnormally visible and long, dragging behind them like a flowing streamer. Or anything that acts as a long fabric that flow with the character like long speed lines in comics.	2002 / 2019	11 games
Structural damage	Location-based damage on vehicles, usually involves disabling and even completely destroying specific components.	1985 / 2015	23 games
Sued by Tim Langdell	Games that have suffered due to legal threats from Tim Langdell (CEO and founder of Edge Games), usually involving his claims of trademark ownership for anything with the word "Edge" in it.	1995 / 2016	25 games
Suicide	Some character(s) may or will commit suicide, especially in case of the protagonist.	2001 / 2024	51 games
Super powers	Features non-specific super powers wielded by the player or others.	1989 / 2018	57 games
Supernatural Entity versus Natural conflict (Supernatural versus Nature;Fanciful versus Nature)	A non-classic narrative concept and key to the plot of the game. It is the conflict that the protagonist of the game must face.	1982 / 2015	4 games
Supernatural Entity versus Supernatural Entity conflict (Fanciful versus Fanciful)	A non-classic narrative concept and key to the plot of the game. It is the conflict that the protagonist of the game must face.	1980 / 2016	10 games
Suppression (Oppression)	The people are being suppressed or oppressed in one manner or another.	1984 / 2016	63 games
Surface variations	Surfaces have variations in their properties, such as friction.	2010 / 2016	9 games
Tattoos	Characters bear tattoos, can get them done for them, and otherwise are unusually visible.	1999 / 2014	20 games
Taxes (Tribute;Protection money)	Includes a government, private or criminal organization that collects a portion of assets supposedly for the benefit of those whom give the funds	1980 / 2023	163 games
Technomagic (Technology-based magic)	Technology is used to produce effects you'd expect to see in fantasy setting from magic.	1988 / 2020	58 games
Teleportation (Particle transportation)	Characters can dematerialize items or themselves in one place and rematerialize elsewhere without actual movement to that location. Regardless if this is by magical, scientific or completely made-up means.	1974 / 2023	316 games
Terraforming	Involves turning a planet's ecosystem to be more suitable to the protagonist's needs.	1985 / 2017	22 games
The Sierra Network (The ImaginatioN Network;INN)	TSN was created by Sierra On-Line & later renamed INN. It was a precursor to the online games & communities that followed but never itself succeeded.	1993 / 1995	3 games
The Unchosen One	There's a Chosen One, but you aren't him/her/it.	1999 / 2002	2 games
Throw anything	Player can throw (almost) anything, especially if it can be held. So any weapons, tools, etc. the player may use can also be thrown, usually with enough force to hurt or damage something with them.	1991 / 2022	55 games
Time	Any time related tags.		0 game
Time paradox		1989 / 2018	17 games
Time span: Days	The story covers several days of time.	1989 / 2017	29 games
Time span: Hours	The story covers only some hours of time.	1984 / 2013	5 games
Time span: Months	The story covers several months of time.	2006 / 2013	6 games
Time theme	Time serves as a major plot or thematic element.	1989 / 2018	22 games
Title	Any and all title related tags.		0 game
To-do: verify existence	This is UVL maintenance tag, used to mark games that someone is fairly certain they don't really exist. These games were likely entered through scripted mass add from 3rd party source, explaining such errors.	1975 / 2019	487 games
Too Popular to be published	Sometimes a game is so good that marketing geniuses decide it would be way to popular if published. Thus hindering sales of their mediocre games.	1984 / 2016	12 games
Total destructibility	Games where there is no such thing as indestructible object, place or thing. Leveling the playfield into something completely unrecognizable from its original state is what happens here.	2015 / 2017	6 games
Total Entertainment Network (TEN)	Uses the subscription-based TEN matchmaking service. Was in operation from 1996-09 till 1999-10. Overthrown by free services, like Battle.net.	1996 / 2014	8 games
Traffic	Player encounters significant traffic that more or less interferes with what they must do.	1979 / 2020	195 games
Trails(Footprints;Tracks)	Characters and vehicles leave trails, which can be used to track them.	1997 / 2016	4 games
Trampolines (Springboards)	Objects, surfaces or merely areas where if the player character jumps repeatedly, they reach higher with each jump.	1984 / 2018	26 games
Transgender protagonist	The protagonist considers themselves to be the opposite or other gender they had at birth. It is not necessary for them to dress or surgically alter themselves towards that gender for them to be this, nor to behave in stereotypically effeminate/masculine	1988 / 2014	3 games
Transgenders	People who have either changed their gender they had at birth, or consider themselves (as in, their gender role) to be opposite or other than they biologically are (which genitalia they have).	1988 / 2016	21 games
Transparent Solids	Visual style where solid objects that one would expect to be opaque are instead transparent. This can be by intended design or due to limitations.	1974 / 2013	2 games
True myths (Real myths)	Things that pretty much everyone thinks are myths are actually true/real.	2000 / 2019	15 games
Unaligned enemies	Player encounters character that are not aligned with them or their actual opponents, but still engage any that draw their ire.		1 game
Uncertain reality(Real unreality;Real dreams)	What is real and what isn't real is blurred so much that it is difficult to distinguish the truth, especially when what is clearly unreal affecting something that is clearly real.	2013 / 2018	11 games
Undead menace	Some form of undead being or beings serve as the prime opposing force.	1986 / 2016	59 games
Unfinished	Has various pieces of content that obviously should lead to something but upon farther exploration, examination, and so forth don't produce any notable results. This does not necessarily mean the game is unplayable or impossible to beat.	1999 / 2012	7 games
Unification	The plot generally involves the unification of all known (local) tribes/nations, such as unification of island nations, all nations in a continent, all in same planet, or even so far as all in same galaxy or universe.	1981 / 2015	54 games
Uniform fetishism			1 game
Unique Roses	Some type of rose not fully covered by existing tags is literally [i]or symbolically[/i] present.	1988 / 2010	44 games
Unity by force	Story involves some faction trying to "unite" people by force, exterminating anyone who doesn't see eye to eye with their vision. Usually marching in with armed forces and then demanding people to submit to their rule.	1997 / 2013	10 games
Unnoticed by normals (Invisible to normals;Ignorant masses;Gullible masses)	Certain abnormalities go strangely unnoticed by normal people, either them not noticing them at all, or anything abnormal about them simply does not register to their senses or intellect.	2006 / 2018	14 games
Unrestricted violence	Player is free to hurt and kill [i]anyone[/i], from random pedestrians to puppies.	1981 / 2020	105 games
Urophilia(Urolagnia;Watersports)	Caters to people with urophilia.		1 game
UVL Maintenance: Linux Spiele & Games	a 1000 game collection for Linux on 2 CDs published in 2000 by More Software. Tag to be deleted from all when entries are complete.		2 games
UVL Maintenance: Multiplayer Info is incomplete	Multiplayer Info is incomplete or missing entirely		1 game
UVL: A higher quality image should be sought	These entries have low quality images. Better ones might be obtainable. Otherwise this tag reminds editors to return when/if better images are possible	1973 / 2018	221 games
UVL: Clarification needed	This is maintenance tag.		0 game
UVL: Corrupted text	Entries that have corrupted text somewhere in them (not articles, though).		1 game
UVL: Delete Request	If not really sure the game has to be deleted (for being duplicate, non-game, availability on platform being questionable, etc.)	1976 / 2013	33 games
UVL: English Translation Needed	Game entry contains non-English in need of a translation, or has an English translation in need of improvement.		1 game
UVL: Fan invented title listed (Fan translated title)	Has fan invented title listed. This is no translation, abbreviation or such, but completely unrelated title often used of the game by their fans. Also any titles of the game as it appears on other platforms as adopted by fans to the target platform.	1981 / 2016	71 games
UVL: Fan translated title listed	Either listed by fan translated title, has fan translated title as one of the alternate titles or uses a translated title from another product (even if correct).	1983 / 2017	190 games
UVL: Gallery cleanup task	Game entries that have excessive number of images that do not contribute to describing the game, such as fanservice shots or others that do not expand on what the game is actually like.	2004 / 2008	5 games
UVL: Image editing needed	The images available to the editor, or the ones already added do need some external photo-editing. (cropping, image quality enhancement, etc)	1990 / 1997	38 games
UVL: Improper tag	Any tags that provide information that should be available in some other manner, these likely exist due to nothing better being available.		0 game
UVL: Includes commonly used misspelled title		1978 / 2016	42 games
UVL: Incomplete description	Though the game shows a description icon, it is extremely incomplete; often having just 1 or 2 tidbits such as number of players or a catalog number.	1977 / 2015	201 games
UVL: Insignificant tags	Includes info on tags that do apply to the game, but are so insignificant in their role of defining the game that adding them would only produce poor search results for users.		1 game
UVL: Maintenance	Anything that need additional non-trivial work, such as renaming, splitting, merging, verifying obscure info, etc.		0 game
UVL: Missing game relations	This is a maintenance tag for games that are known to be missing game relations (likely described in an article in the game entry).	1993 / 2006	26 games
UVL: Missing images	Has some images, but there are known gamestates or events that could be beneficial to have additionally among the images. Such as title screens, screens of specific game modes or "windows", and so forth.	1977 / 2016	692 games
UVL: Missing media	Missing info (tags) on any media or is known to be for others not yet listed.	1980 / 2015	333 games
UVL: Original title missing	Has either localized titles, fan translated and/or romanized titles listed but the name the game was originally released under is not listed (usually titles written in non-latin characters).	1983 / 2016	228 games
UVL: Platform/Operating System Limitation	Temporarily used in cases where a game is listed in a [i][b]completely[/b] unrelated[/i] platform until it is decided how the platform should be handled.	1970 / 2016	358 games
UVL: Romanization missing	Has non-roman title listed or is known to have been released under one, but no romanized title is listed or given romanization is only partial.	1983 / 2006	14 games
UVL: Search help title	Includes a title intended to help with inexact search queries, such as omitted or changed special symbols, problems with used typeface, etc.	1982 / 2024	301 games
UVL: Technical Error with Tags	corrupted text/invalid characters in the tags are causing problems.		0 game
UVL: Temporary Tags	The tags of this game entry has should be examined and revised later.		1 game
Vague terms	Any tags that exist to clarify and redirect to better tags. None of these should actually have any games in them.		0 game
VAGUE: Auto combat	This can either mean car combat or automatic/automated combat.		0 game
Vandalism	Player can or must damage or otherwise ruin the property of others.	2005 / 2010	5 games
VCR effects(VHS effects)		2009 / 2016	6 games
Vehicle painting (Vehicle coloring)	Player can color their vehicle(s) either when they're acquired and/or at any time later (whether or not this requires visit to a paintshop or similar).	2004 / 2020	20 games
Vibrant(High vibrance)[High digital vibrance]	Uses unnaturally pure and bright colors, or artificially produces the appearance of such by having added bloom effect to them. Effect is similar to (but not the same as) increasing saturation.	1988 / 2018	71 games
Video game theme	Video games about video games. The plot of the game is based around video games, or the main protagonist is a video games platform, etc...	1992 / 2017	36 games
Virtual social network(Simulated social network)[Virtual social networking;Simulated social networking]	Involves interacting with a virtual social network of some sort that.	2013 / 2014	6 games
Visible Grid	Notable shows a grid even for a game that is not grid based.	1983 / 2013	3 games
Visible LASERs	Non-weapon grade LASERs are peculiarly visible to normal human sight.	1978 / 2020	87 games
Vision modes (View modes;Sight modes)	Includes different view modes that convey different or additional information not otherwise available.	1995 / 2015	31 games
Visions	The protagonist experiences visions of another place and time.	2004 / 2020	31 games
Voice-overs (Talkie;Voice acted;Digitized Speech)	Includes digitized speech.	1978 / 2024	467 games
Walking simulator	A descriptive fake genre adopted by players for games that involve excessive amounts of walking between scenes where any action happens.	1983 / 2020	60 games
War of aggression(War of conquest)	The side of the war the player is on depicts a war with intent of conquering or subjugating, rather than for self-defense.		1 game
Watercolor	Has the look of a watercolor painting.		1 game
Weather effects	Weather plays a role that affects gameplay besides creating mood or limiting visibility.	1977 / 2022	84 games
Weather theme	Weather serves as a major thematic element.	1980 / 2011	7 games
Well of Souls		2010 / 2016	12 games
What if	A non-canon spin-off where something is changed, hence the name "what if".	1996 / 2020	3 games
Whispers[whispering]	Player character hears unexplainable whispering, chanting or other voices.	1999 / 2015	45 games
WiiWare	Distributed through the Wii Shop Channel for play on the Wii.	2008 / 2013	258 games
Wildfire (Fire spreading;Fire dynamics;Dynamic combustion)	Fire dynamically spreads, burns and is extinguished with the presence or absence of appropriate materials and environmental conditions.	1977 / 2020	46 games
Withdrawn from market (Pulled off or removed from market)	Completely removed from market for one reason or another, no replacements or altered versions were made available later on.	1990 / 2021	22 games
WON.net (World Opponent Network)	Sierra's online game service that was shutdown in 2004.	1998 / 2003	6 games
Work of art based plot	Plot centers on a uniquely valuable work of art such as a painting or sculpture. It is often missing, stolen, or the protagonist intends to steel it.	1983 / 1985	3 games
World Cyber Games (Cyber Games Festival)	International professional e-sports event.	1998 / 2016	38 games
World war	Features any world war where majority of the known nations or military powers join in a war or several around the same time, whether factual, fictional or hypothetical.	1978 / 2017	407 games
Xbox Live Marketplace (XBLM)[XBLA;Xbox Live Arcade;XBLIG;Xbox Live Indie Games]	Distributed through Xbox Live Marketplace.	2005 / 2020	325 games
Yo-yo		1987 / 2010	5 games
Zulu language (isiZulu)			1 game

entities

3D map	The map is shown as a 3D projection, possibly with free roaming camera, allowing better spatial understanding of (multilayered) areas than a 2D map would.	1995 / 2020	47 games
Accelerators	Objects, surfaces or merely areas that accelerate or otherwise boost player character and possibly other objects and characters in some direction off them forcibly.	1995 / 2011	8 games
Acid		1990 / 2015	23 games
Acorns (Oak Nuts)	Acorns of the Oak tree are featured in gameplay or story.		2 games
Airlocks	Includes door pairs that can be only open one at a time, such as an airlock. Often incorporating pressurisation, scanning and decontamination capabilities. Pseudo-puzzles in games where these are unexpected and both doors need to be manually operated.	1999 / 2017	50 games
Alarmers	Includes people, creatures, devices and other things that can raise an alarm or attract other creatures/people or such to the location.	1983 / 2018	74 games
Alcohol drinks	Alcoholic drinks is present in the game.	1983 / 2020	168 games
Alien flora		2012 / 2015	12 games
Ancient machines (Ancient technology)	Machines or other technology that has laid unused for thousands of years yet are still more or less operational.	2008 / 2017	18 games
Announcer		1975 / 2014	36 games
Apples	A fruit know for it's red color but comes others. Has a variety of religious/symbolic meanings most famously the 'Forbidden Fruit'	1978 / 2016	99 games
Armor patches(Armor shards;Armor pickups)	Player can pick up small objects that improve their armor like health pickups, without replacing anything but simply enhancing what's already worn.	1997 / 2017	9 games
Asteroids (Comets)	Features inanimate (but usually in motion) space debris that threaten to collide with important things that need protecting.	1977 / 2019	150 games
Attractors(Gravity wells)	Objects or characters that attract other objects or characters toward themselves, especially when the protagonist or some gameplay central thing is attracted by them.	1984 / 2014	4 games
Auto-closing doors		2007 / 2015	11 games
Automatic doors	Includes doors that automatically open when approached and close when no-one's near them anymore.	1997 / 2015	34 games
Available on Desura	Available on Desura, a digital distribution network & game development community.	1995 / 2017	1165 games
Available on Direct2drive(D2D)	A digital distribution method offering PC videogames via direct download.	2008 / 2011	9 games
Available on DLsite.com	Available from DLsite.com digital distribution, mainly a source of indie games and other products.	2007 / 2015	22 games
Available on Epic Games Store	Available on the digital distribution by Epic Games.	2008 / 2022	84 games
Available on Gameolith	A digital distribution service for Linux games.	2003 / 2015	61 games
Available on Gamersgate	Available on the digital distribution by Gamersgate.	1998 / 2017	21 games
Available on GOG.com (Good Old Games)	Available from GOG.com digital distribution.	1982 / 2022	1413 games
Available on Itch.io		1983 / 2023	5074 games
Available on Mac Games Store	Available on the Mac Games Store digital distribution service.		1 game
Available on MangaGamer[MangaGamer.com]	Available on the MangaGamer digital distribution service.	2015 / 2016	14 games
Available on Playism	Available on Playism digital distribution that focuses on indie PC games.	2011 / 2013	3 games
Available on Steam	Available on the digital distribution (and by extension social networking service) by Valve.	1984 / 2024	8888 games
Available on the Humble Store		2010 / 2019	210 games
Available on Windows Store	Available from Windows Store digital distribution for Windows 8/RT or newer.	2013 / 2016	2 games
Available via Humble Widget		2010 / 2019	282 games
Balance beams(Rope walking)	A walkable beam used in artistic gymnastics or anything that works like such, such a rope that is walked upon.	2008 / 2018	21 games
Balls			0 game
Berries			0 game
Bestiary	Player has access to bestiary of one sort or another, describing the various opponents they face.		1 game
Black market	Player deals with black market.	1981 / 2014	18 games
Black Pearls (Black Tahitian Pearls)	Comparatively rare black pearls from the Tahitian black pearl oyster (Pinctada margaritifera). Were much rarer before production of cultured pearls.	1985 / 2018	73 games
Black Roses	Black roses are literally or symbolically present. Traditionally they have negative meanings; Death, hate, farewell. But also rejuvenation or rebirth.	1989 / 2014	24 games
Blackberries	An edible aggregate fruit that grows on blackberry shrubs & turns from green to red to deep red (black) when ripe.		2 games
Blood Moon[Bloodmoon]	A phenomena where the moon appears reddish due to lunar eclipse, often given prophetic, supernatural, or general bad omen traits.	2000 / 2018	19 games
Bloopers(Outtakes;Gag reel)			3 games
Blue Roses	Blue roses are literally [i]or symbolically[/i] present. Traditionally symbolize unattainable via natural means (impossible), mystery, love at 1st sight, or royalty	1988 / 2013	19 games
Body armor		1980 / 2022	434 games
Books	Player encounters numerous books they can read, most are likely just fillers for the background mythos - such as history, novels, encyclopedias, etc. - though some may be of actual value, directly or indirectly.	1988 / 2018	70 games
Boosters(Enhancers)[amplifiers]	Devices, buildings, etc. that increase the performance of other things attached to or near them.	1992 / 2017	24 games
Briefcases	Often used to hide questionable or extremely valuable objects in fiction, such as drugs, money/gold, weapon components, and so forth.	2004 / 2008	4 games
bsdgames package (bsdgames-nonfree)	Part of the bsdgames package common to many BSD and *NIX distributions. Note that included games vary slightly per system.	1979 / 2003	53 games
Cage transport(Coffin transport)	Cages, coffins, iron maidens, or such are used as transportation mechanisms with whoever using them needing to go inside them.	2002 / 2018	11 games
Carrots	An editable orange taproot. Famous as a favorite of rabbits. It is actually more nutritious when cooked.	1983 / 2013	15 games
Cartoon bones	A symmetric femur bone that is inaccurate to its real counterpart. Often used as representation of Any bone thus you can find unusual number of these on corpses, skeletons, and such.	1987 / 2016	19 games
Central Intelligence Agency(CIA)	Deals with the CIA, an USA government run civilian (as in, non-military) intelligence agency.	1990 / 2015	17 games
Chasms (Fissures;Rifts)	Player encounters expansive chasms.	1992 / 2017	34 games
Cheese	Game includes cheese.	1981 / 2012	36 games
Cherries	A small spherical fruit with a distinctively long stem. Commonly shown red & in stem attached pairs. It comes in other colors and numbers as well.	1981 / 2016	76 games
Chestnuts	An editable nut from the Chestnut tree. Tends to stink when munched raw. Many prefer it baked or roasted.	2007 / 2009	3 games
Clothing		1982 / 2019	90 games
Coconuts	Coconuts are actually nuts. They are seed of fruit of widespread but beach dwelling coconut palm tree. Often a falling or thrown hazards in videogames	1980 / 2009	23 games
Coffins	Player encounters numerous coffins.	2004 / 2018	14 games
Color guides[colour guides]	Specific colors are used to guide attention, such as red for destructibles, bright white or green for the right direction to go and so forth.		1 game
Companies	Companies that aren't directly involved with games.		0 game
Concealed doors	Player encounters door, hatches, or similar openings that are indistinguishable from the rest of the environment.	1996 / 2015	5 games
Containers(Chests;Drawers;Boxes;Barrels)	Includes containers - usually chests - that can be opened and possibly closed as well with items taken out and stored in them. Only for the variety found in the environment, not for carried on person kind unless they're the same.	1981 / 2024	280 games
Contraband	Player has to deal with contraband, other than smuggling such themselves.	1999 / 2021	20 games
Contrails (Condensation trails;Vapour trails)	Simulates or otherwise depicts contrails or similar phenomena.	2009 / 2014	13 games
Cosgrove Hall Films	Based on the creations of the Cosgrove Hall animation studio.	1989 / 2008	35 games
Counselor (Instructor;Operations officer)	Player has one or more characters almost constantly nattering what they should be doing or how to do it.	1992 / 2020	97 games
Crates	Surprisingly common object in video games.	1990 / 2020	106 games
Crepuscular rays (Sunbeams;God rays;Light shafts)[lightrays;sunrays]	Simulates light rays seen at edges of light and dark areas of air, essentially caused by light scattering from air particles.	2002 / 2016	69 games
Crimson Roses	Crimson roses are literally or symbolically present. Traditionally they symbolize mourning.	1999 / 2006	4 games
Crop circles	Features crop circles or other similar inexplicable shapes. Commonly associated with extra terrestrial beings and UFOs.	1999 / 2008	11 games
Crushers	Falling chunks of ceiling, large machinery, a massive trap, or something else that crushes anyone who has the misfortune of getting in their way, usually killing them (almost) instantly.	1994 / 2016	16 games
Crystals	Crystals of one sort or another appear prominently.	1992 / 2018	108 games
Cursed items	Items that are somehow cursed. Commonly can't be removed without dispelling the curse and impart other detrimental effects.	1983 / 2019	19 games
Custom treaties	Player can create customized agreements with factions, people, or such.	2010 / 2016	4 games
Dakar Rally(Paris-Dakar Rally;The Dakar)	Annual rally raid, since 1979, originally held from Paris, France to Dakar, Senegal (now in South America).	1985 / 2003	27 games
Deadly decor(Spiky decor;Spikes everywhere)	Locations are riddled with deadly decor that hurts or instantly kills the player character if bumped with. Usually inexplicable spikes found at floors, walls, and ceilings. Especially when their presence makes no sense.	1981 / 2021	241 games
Death pits (Bottomless pits)	Includes pits where once you fall, you're never coming back. Either you die during the fall, hitting the bottom or there's just no way out of them and the game doesn't have the grace to call it a game over.	1984 / 2022	286 games
Def Jam		2003 / 2010	11 games
Detectors (Security cameras)	Includes devices, creatures, or some other things that serve the purpose of detecting something and summoning something more appropriate to deal with them.	1999 / 2018	13 games
Diaries (Journals;Logbooks;Audiologs)	Player can find several diaries or similar recordings of past events that reveal all or part of what had transpired, often revealing surprisingly useful info compared to what one would expect from such.	1994 / 2020	221 games
Dimensional portals (Planegates;Planar gates)[dimensional gates]	Includes gateways between dimensions or planes of existence.	1993 / 2015	21 games
Disappearing platforms (Disappearing floor;Crumbling floor)	Features floor or other platforms that disappear and possibly re-appear for one reason or other (commonly from being stepped on).	1983 / 2021	211 games
Discouraged term: Blood	Due to blood being very common thing in games, some other terms should be used instead.	1983 / 2018	56 games
Disguised triggers(Disguised buttons;Disguised levers)	Includes buttons, levers or other triggers that are disguised to appear as natural part of the environment, such as a book lever in a bookshelf, a push button stone on a stonewall, lever sconce, and so forth.	1988 / 2022	38 games
Display devices (Monitors;Screens)	Player encounters display devices or other similar things that show other parts of the game world in (semi) real-time, commonly displays linked to security cameras.	2002 / 2012	5 games
Distributors			0 game
Doors (Gates)[Portcullis;Portcullises]	A simple piece of a structure that opens and closes, often comes with a locking mechanism.	1981 / 2023	944 games
Drone (Satellite;Bot)	Player has one or more drone ships, robots, or other similar entities running about aiding them in whatever task they're at.	1983 / 2024	75 games
Drop platforms (Pass-through platforms)[drop-through platforms]	Platforms that support characters on them, but can be passed through when wanted (dropping down or jumping up through them).	1984 / 2018	69 games
Dust motes (Space dust;Plankton)	Dust motes or similar float about in the air, sea, or space. Usually they try to impart a sense of motion in places where seeing it otherwise might not be so clear, or simply for atmosphere.	1994 / 2015	25 games
Encyclopedia(Codex)[encyclopaedia]	Includes some form of in-game encyclopedia that explains pretty much everything worth explaining and some more.	1992 / 2020	64 games
Energy distribution (Electric distribution network;Wiring;Power conduits)	Player needs to establish and maintain energy distribution in some manner.	1982 / 2020	71 games
Energy pickups(Mana pickups;Spell point pickups)	Includes items that restore all or part of the player character's energy upon picking up, activation or touching. These can't be stored in inventory even if such exists.	1997 / 2015	17 games
Energy recharging items(Mana recharging items)	Player can carry about items that recharge their energy reserves when they feel it necessary.	1993 / 2023	153 games
Energy shield projectors(Energy shield emitters;Shield domes;Force field projectors)	Includes shielding systems that protect a large area with the force field instead of just whatever has the emitter.	2007 / 2013	8 games
Energy stations(Mana stations)	Player can find devices, locations or other things where they can repeatedly recharge their energy reserves.	1994 / 2023	40 games
Eruptions	Violent eruptions of some harmful substance (e.g. lava, steam, acid, ...) provide an environmental hazard.	2007 / 2020	27 games
Estate(Stronghold;Base)	Player owns or can own a household of one form or another where they have a number of retainers that do the protagonist's bidding.	2000 / 2018	18 games
Explosive environmental objects	Includes objects that cause an explosion or expulsion of some harmful material upon being sufficiently damaged. These are [i]very[/i] likely red and barrel-shaped.	1989 / 2023	279 games
Facebook Connect	Has integrated support for interacting with Facebook, likely to automatically publish somehow significant actions in-game.	2006 / 2014	23 games
Factions	There are multiple factions, organizations, nations or such that have more or less impact on the actual story.	1999 / 2021	50 games
Fake surfaces(Fake platforms;Illusory surfaces)[quicksand]	Surfaces or other platforms that are not as tangible as they give the impression of.	1988 / 2016	9 games
Fictional element (Fictional material;Fictional substance)	A fictional element or other substance is central to the plot, gameplay or has otherwise very dominant presence.	1992 / 2023	87 games
Fire suppression(Fire suppression systems)	Player can or must employ fire suppression systems.	1977 / 2014	27 games
Fireflies	Tiny little flying insects that emit light or any other beings indistinguishable from them (such as faeries/pixies could exist as just tiny flying points of light, thus indistinguishable from fireflies).	2004 / 2017	15 games
Flammable gas	Gaseous matter that is explosive or otherwise can be made dangerous under certain circumstances.	2008 / 2020	2 games
Flash cards(Memory cards;NAND)	Features memory cards slotted to other devices as generic removable data storage. Appearing since 1994 and growing in popularity since with latest models hardly the size of a fingernail.		1 game
Flying islands (Floating continents)[flying continents;floating islands]	Features islands/continents that fly, hover, or otherwise are suspended in air.	1997 / 2020	120 games
Force fields (Energy barriers)		1997 / 2018	53 games
Found maps	Player must find maps to have access to them, rather than having some inexplicable map inbuilt.	1986 / 2019	23 games
Foundations	Player must deal with building foundations for structures or similar.	1992 / 2016	19 games
Fruits		1983 / 2014	23 games
Fungi (Mushrooms)		1982 / 2021	36 games
GamerSafe	Supports GamerSafe to a degree, such as having saves stored online, public achievements, micro-transactions, etc. Requires login at GamerSafe, though some games may be playable without such (with the additional features unavailable).		1 game
Games Republic	Available for digital distribution and shown on the Games Republic store front.	2008 / 2019	110 games
Garden gnomes	Statues of small, stout humanoids with pointy red hats, white beards, and rosy cheeks. Variably targets of pranks, vandalism, strange conspiracy theories, and other things.	2007 / 2015	21 games
Garlic	A notably pungent plant, or especially its bulb, that is used for culinary, medicinal, magical, or super natural purposes.	1979 / 2018	84 games
Gems (Gemstones;Precious stones)[diamonds;jewels]		1981 / 2015	89 games
Geoglyphs			0 game
Geysers	A generally extremely dangerous volcanic eruption of burning hot water or steam.	2002 / 2016	8 games
Giant fungi (Giant mushrooms)	Player more or less frequently encounters gigantic fungi, often to the degree that it's a forest made out of them.	1994 / 2017	34 games
Giant machine	Involves some gigantic machine that is not a robot (or mecha) nor a factory or is otherwise not described better with something else.		6 games
Gibs		1990 / 2020	181 games
Gold bags	Bags of gold coins, raw gold ore or such. Strangely often in a plain brown bag, or one with dollar symbol on it even if it's not of said currency.		3 games
Gold bars (Gold ingots)	Gold that has been melted down and shaped into similar sized bars. Presumed to be purified to one degree or another.	1981 / 2013	45 games
Gold dust	When dirt (or rock) containing gold is is processed to separate the gold, impure but mostly gold granules that result are called gold dust.	2000 / 2004	3 games
Gold nuggets	Naturally occurring gold chunks. Often found or panned from rivers where erosion has moved them. Sometimes panned from dirt out of mines or hillsides.	1983 / 2016	24 games
GPGnet		2007 / 2008	3 games
Greatest hits	PS1, PS2 and PSP budget range in the US.	1995 / 2021	66 games
Half-pipe	1 structure of 2 opposing quarter-cylindrical ramps for bikes, skateboards, rollerblades, or other vehicles to launch into the air & preform tricks.	1987 / 1989	13 games
Hazmat suit	Protagonist wears or can wear a hazmat suit.	1998 / 2013	27 games
Health pickups (Health power-ups)	Includes items that restore all or part of the player character's health upon picking up, activation or touching. These can't be stored in inventory even if such exists.	1985 / 2020	352 games
Hearts	Central pieces of blood circulation in organic beings, often symbolizing vitality, life or even the soul.	1990 / 2015	24 games
Heat haze (Heat distortion)		2005 / 2015	24 games
Herbs		2001 / 2014	9 games
Horizontal bars (High bars)[Uneven bars]	A bar used generally in artistic gymnastics.	2006 / 2014	21 games
Human cannonball (Unit cannon)	Characters, vehicles, etc. are shot a great distance via a cannon, catapult, or other similar device as an unconventional means of transportation.	2009 / 2014	10 games
Humble Bundle	Series of time limited sales of packs of cross-platform, DRM-free games where customers set their own price and distribute it to the developers, Humble Store, or some charity as they want.	2001 / 2020	327 games
Illusionary walls (Illusory walls;Fake walls)	Includes walls that aren't really there.	1988 / 2021	44 games
Indie Fund	Indie Fund investment was utilised in the marketing of these games.	2011 / 2014	16 games
Intel Extreme Masters(IEM)	An international electronic sports league owned by Turtle Entertainment and sponsored by the namesake Intel.	2000 / 2016	11 games
Interactive triggers (Buttons;Levers;Switches)	Player encounters trigger mechanisms they can or must interact with, usually in form of push buttons or turning levers/valves.	1990 / 2023	240 games
Invasive plant species (Alien weed)	Anything that behaves like an invasive species (such as weeds) but also noticeably changing the area as it spreads, overwhelming native forms of life.	2003 / 2015	4 games
Invisible platforms	Platforms that normally are normally undetectable. Some may become visible under certain circumstances and others may even be intangible unless something is done to or near them.	1998 / 2018	24 games
Itch.to	Available on the digital distribution service known as Itch.to.		0 game
Joke items	Items that are completely useless or do something bizarre even for the mythos. Commonly treated as non-canon, easter eggs, or similar. Some may simply be references to other works of fiction.	1985 / 2020	56 games
Jump pads(Bouncers;Springs;Catapults)	Objects, surfaces or merely areas that bounce the player and possibly other objects and characters off them forcibly high in the air, often used to reach otherwise inaccessible locations.	1982 / 2020	109 games
Jumping puzzles(Platformer puzzles)	Includes jumping puzzles, puzzles where player tries to find the correct route to target via jumping (platforming).	1984 / 2013	9 games
Juniper Berries	Actually a fleshy seed cone rather than a berry. Used as a spice for game meats, sauerkraut, gin, & other European foods. Some species are toxic.		2 games
KGB(КГБ;Комитет государственной безопасности;Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti)	Deals with KGB, the internal security, intelligence and secret police of the Soviet Union.	1990 / 2010	7 games
Knights Templar (Military order)	Features the Knights Templar or any other religiously driven military orders; Knights Templar is the most well/widely known military order and often used as synonym for them.	1992 / 2014	19 games
KRI award (Russian Game Developer's Conference award;Конференция Разработчиков Игр award;КРИ award)[Konferencziya Razrabotchikov Igr]	Received an award the at any of the Russian Game Developer's Conferences (Конференция Разработчиков Игр).	2003 / 2015	4 games
Ladders (Ropes;Vines;Grid fences;Rappelling;Abseiling)	Anything used to climb up or down a vertical surface, regardless what it looks like, or how or even if it's attached to anything.	1980 / 2020	1617 games
Lava[magma]	An environmental hazard, though may have actual uses or dynamics outside of the initial danger it poses.	1984 / 2023	112 games
LEGO Group	Anything created by the LEGO Group.		0 game
Lettuce	Featured in gameplay or story. The leafy green. Eaten raw or sometimes cooked. The basis for many salads.		2 games
Light bridges	Bridges or similar platforms that are formed of light or other supposedly intangible form of energy.	1986 / 2020	30 games
Logic gates	The most basic element of binary (boolean) computing, can be used with enough effort to construct actual processors inside virtual worlds.	1982 / 2016	36 games
Luggage(Backpacks;Bags;Sacks;Pouches;Boxes)	Besides whatever basic inventory space the player has, they can also have additional pouches, bags, backpacks, boxes, etc. that can be used for storing items.	1992 / 2020	38 games
M&M's Candies		2000 / 2009	7 games
Mac App Store	Available on the Mac App Store.	2014 / 2016	2 games
Mafia(Cosa Nostra)	A crime organization of Italian/Sicilian origin which has also established in America.	1989 / 2020	16 games
Magic carpets[flying carpets]		1984 / 2016	30 games
Magic circles (Summoning circles)	Drawn circles involved in ritual magic, often inscribed with various geometric shapes and runes.	1994 / 2015	11 games
Magic ingredients (Spell ingredients;Spell components)	Magic spells require the use of special ingredients that may or may not themselves be of magical nature.	1986 / 2016	12 games
Magic jewellery[magic jewelry]	Rings, neclaces, ear rings, etc. that have magic or magic-like powers associated with them.		1 game
Mahjong tiles[Mah Jongg tiles]		1985 / 2016	16 games
Mannequins		2005 / 2017	7 games
Marbles		1998 / 2008	25 games
Masks	Masks appear in unusual numbers or in unusually important status.	2011 / 2017	10 games
Meteoroids (Meteors)	"Sand to boulder sized extraterrestrial matter"	1984 / 2015	12 games
Mirrors	An object with a specularly reflective surface is featured in gameplay.	1979 / 1985	10 games
Moai Figures	Game features Moai figures.	1983 / 2019	221 games
Mobile energy shields	Includes mobile energy shield emitters that provide shielding to others besides themselves.	1991 / 2020	8 games
Modular vehicles	Certain or all vehicles' functionality can be extended or altered by use of modular components.	2011 / 2013	2 games
Money bags	Light colored plain canvas or cloth bags with a large contrasted currency symbol printed on them to comically reveal to all exactly what is inside.	1982 / 2017	55 games
Monkey bars	Includes monkey bars or any other structures or objects that are used in similar fashion, such as piping or ropes.	1984 / 2019	84 games
Moving platforms (Floating platforms)	Features inexplicable platforms - that either float or are attached to some background machinery - which move up and down, left and right, and the player is required to jump from one to the other.	1982 / 2023	300 games
Multiple Rocket Launchers[multiple launch rocket systems]	Vehicles or towed weapon systems that deliver a barrage of unguided rockets.	1999 / 2014	12 games
Mutant plants	Plants that have mutated to a point at which they're barely or not at all recognizable.	2010 / 2011	5 games
National Security Agency(NSA)	Deals with the NSA, an intelligence organization. Part of the executive branch of the U.S.A. government.	1996 / 2011	13 games
Necklaces (Pendants)[amulets]	Any form of neck ornaments.	2010 / 2011	3 games
News	Player has access to some in-world/mythos news service that reports more or less relevant news, possibly reports of their past deeds, events they participated in or upcoming events they may be interested in participating in.	2000 / 2016	39 games
Nikola Tesla	Nikola Tesla makes an appearance or the game deals with his creations, especially if this involves his scientifically less accepted ideas.	2010 / 2015	11 games
Nordic Game Program	Funded by a grant from the Nordic Game Program.	2010 / 2016	18 games
NPC generators (Monster generators)	An object that keeps on spawning NPCs until destroyed.	1985 / 2018	163 games
Nuts	Hard shelled fruits are featured in gameplay or story. Edible seeds of high oil content are often defined nuts despite the scientific inaccuracy of it	1985 / 2009	4 games
One-way passages	Includes passages, doorways, teleporters, etc. that can be only traversed in one direction no matter what.	1982 / 2009	7 games
Online ranking (Online highscores;Leaderboards)	Uses online ranking/highscore lists.	2004 / 2017	127 games
Orbital weapons[orbital weaponry]	Either satellites or spacecraft providing weapon support from space (planet's orbit) to planet surface.	1995 / 2020	38 games
Paper charms(Paper talismans;Ofuda;御札;お札)[o-fuda]	An item associated with Shinto (ofuda), Taoism (fu), and Hinduism (sutra). Usually seen as part of "traditional" Japanese magic especially when Onmyouji are involved, with common uses in exorcism and warding.	2003 / 2016	12 games
Pet (Pet system)	The protagonist has or can have (usually one) animal companion that is not an integral part of the story or gameplay.	1989 / 2019	40 games
Phlebotinum (Unobtainium;Handwavium;Eludium;Wishalloy)	Involves an exceedingly rare, valuable or inexplicable substance (or possibly device) that often has so many (often unpredictable) uses that everyone wants it, and it's (of course) important for the plot.	1995 / 2023	38 games
Pink Roses	Pink roses are literally [i]or symbolically[/i] present. Traditionally symbolize gratitude. Also grace, elegance, admiration and/or fun.	1998 / 2006	5 games
Planetary defense weapons	Weapon systems installed on the surface of planets or similar stellar bodies that are intended to defend against threats from space before they reach the atmosphere.	2010 / 2016	4 games
PlayStation Store (PlayStation Network;PSN)	Distributed through PS network's store.	2000 / 2020	269 games
Polycubes	Gameplay involves polycubes, shapes formed of one or more equal cubes joined face to face.	1995 / 2014	8 games
Polyhedrons	Depicts polyhedrons prominently or in large quantities, or they're somehow relevant to the plot.		1 game
Polyominos	Gameplay involves polyominos, two-dimensional polygons made out of squares whose faces line up.	1980 / 2014	19 games
Portals	Includes portals of some sort, used for rapid transportation from one place to another. Often these have the outer appearance of door frames with fancy light show.	1988 / 2022	163 games
Potions (Vials)		1980 / 2023	320 games
Power-ups	Includes various inexplicable objects that instantly increase the protagonist's power, temporarily or permanently.	1981 / 2020	675 games
Pressure plates[pressure pads]	Floor plates, pads, or such that react to sufficient weight pressing down on them (such as the player character, random objects, NPCs, vehicles, or anything else).	1990 / 2023	159 games
Private Military Companies(PMCs;Private Military Contractors)		1995 / 2016	72 games
Pumpkin	Some are lanterns, a character's head, coaches pulled by horses, explosives, mistaken for a vegetables, talk, chucked more & farther than other fruit.	1983 / 2019	56 games
Purple Roses	Purple roses are literally or symbolically present. Traditionally associated with enchantment, desire, or caution.	1995 / 2003	3 games
Quicksand	Any surfaces that slowly sink anything on them deeper and deeper until finally suffocating them, though not necessarily lethal if too shallow. This is applicable regardless if it's sand or not, as long as it behaves the same. Not for realistic quicks	1991 / 2016	16 games
Radar jammers	Any devices, structures, or such that deny radar or similar information to be gathered, commonly making things invisible to radars, but not blocking detection by plain sight or such methods.	2007 / 2013	7 games
Radar scramblers	Any devices, structures, or such that distort information gained by using radars or similar devices.	2007 / 2015	8 games
Radishes	Editable pungent peppery taproot. The whole plant is editable. Some species are best cooked due to toughness. Commonly red varieties are seen.		2 games
Ramparts (Bulwarks;Barriers;Defensive walls;Fences)		1990 / 2017	64 games
Recall portal (Town portal;Recall teleport;Teleport home)	Includes an ability, item, or other such that teleports the protagonist back to their home or nearest safe haven, such as the nearest friendly habitat.	1989 / 2021	96 games
Recipes, blueprints & schematics	Instructions how to cook, build, or otherwise craft certain objects can be found.	2006 / 2017	12 games
Red China(People's Republic of China;PRC;Communist China;中华人民共和国;Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó)	Deals with the nation known as People's Republic of China but not necessary the region known as mainland China.		2 games
Red Roses	Red roses are literally or symbolically present. Traditionally they symbolize passionate, romantic love.	1988 / 2019	49 games
Road signs(Traffic signs;Guide posts)[fingerposts]	Player encounters usable (as in, useful) road signs or other direction guides.	2002 / 2023	26 games
Rose Bushes (Rose Trees;Rose Shrubs;Rose Vines)	A shrub known for its beautiful rose flowers & sharp thorns.	1991 / 2009	5 games
Roses	Literally present flowers of the rosebush, often red, valued for their beauty, fragrance, as a food ingredient, & for romantic connotations.	1985 / 2016	131 games
Rotating platforms	Includes platforms that rotate somehow, either by themselves or with applied force. Often the rotating either forces timing or it must be otherwise taken into actual use, especially in games involving physics.	2009 / 2013	17 games
Rubber ducks	A floating generally yellow-billed yellow duck which is a popular bath toy in western culture is present in these games.	2012 / 2013	4 games
Rube Goldberg machine (Roland Emett things;Storm P machines;Pythagorean devices;Jean Tinguely sculpture;Heath Robinson machine)	An overly complicated device to accomplish a simple task in an entertaining and/or satirical manner.	1985 / 2018	25 games
Sacrificial lamb(One for all)	Includes an animal or a person to be sacrificed for the good of all others.	2001 / 2019	4 games
Safe pits(Teleport pits;Retry pits)[safety pits]	Pits that teleport or otherwise move the player back to a safe location, usually nearby their last on-ground location.	2008 / 2017	22 games
Saguaro Cactus	A large tree-sized cactus & iconic symbol of the american southwest.	1978 / 2016	6 games
Sai	A dagger-like weapon of Okinawan origin used in certain martial arts.	1989 / 2013	57 games
Scents (Smells)		2000 / 2010	6 games
Scrolls (Spell scrolls)		1982 / 2021	55 games
Seeds	Gameplay or story features plant seeds.	1991 / 2016	14 games
Skeleton key	Includes a key that will open any lock, usually named skeleton key and is shaped like a skeleton, skull, or bone.	1986 / 2016	39 games
Slitherine PBEM(Slitherine PBEM++)	Uses Slitherine's proprietary online service.		1 game
Smokes (Tobacco;Cigars;Cigarettes)	Smokes or similar recreational inhalants, taken by burning the substance and inhaling the smoke, are present.	1979 / 2019	72 games
Social networks	Any third-party social networks supported internally by games.		0 game
Soul jar(Phylactery)	Phylacteries or similar supernatural objects that preserve a part of a being (such as their heart or even their actual soul) that makes them effectively immortal, requiring the destruction of the phylactery before the being itself can be truly killed.	1996 / 2021	37 games
Soundtrack available(OST)	The soundtrack is available for acquisition separately.	2013 / 2017	31 games
Soviet Union (USSR;Union of Soviet Socialist Republics;Союз Советских Социалистических Республик;Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik;CCCP;SSSR)	Deals with USSR, a single party socialist state existent 1922–1991. Associated with Russia, the most populous country within. One of the Cold War superpowers.	1978 / 2017	45 games
Space suit (E.V.A. suit)[EVA suit]	The protagonist is equipped with or can wear a space suit of one form or another.	1985 / 2021	39 games
Spacelanes (Wormholes;Warp conduits;Hyperspace gate networks)	Either natural (e.g. wormholes, subspace conduits, etc.) or artificial (e.g. jump gate network) lanes between major stellar phenomena, commonly star systems, employed to accomplish FTL travel.	1990 / 2021	53 games
Speaking stones(Speaking statues)	Certain stones, boulders, or other innocuous inanimate objects like statues have the startling ability to speak, even if they can't do much anything else.	2005 / 2015	11 games
Spetsnaz(Спецназ;Войска специального назначения)	Deals with Spetsnaz, an umbrella term used to refer to any Russian special forces.	2005 / 2016	17 games
Splatter (Blood splatter;Ichor splatter)	Creatures excessively splatter bodily fluids, blood or other vital fluids, when wounded, crushed, mutilated or otherwise harmed.	1986 / 2020	644 games
Spring guns		2010 / 2015	5 games
Stage magic	Depicts stage magic in one form or another.	1988 / 2008	4 games
Standing stones (Megaliths;Orthostats;Liths)	Including any formations of standing stones, such as a stone circle or row.	1986 / 2017	17 games
Stash(Stash)[Bank]	Player character has a "stash" of some sort where they can store excess items for later. This stash automatically moves with the player character though is often only accessible from a town or similar safe locale.	1988 / 2021	95 games
Stealth field projectors (Cloaking field projectors)	Any devices, structures, or such that project a stealth field around themselves, thus cloaking anything within sufficient proximity to them, or that cloak distant objects.	2007 / 2008	4 games
Steam Workshop	A distribution system for user-created content on Steam.	2007 / 2017	47 games
Stepping stones	Any sparsely spaced footing, regardless if they're actually stones, that player usually jumps from one to the other while aiming their jumps carefully.	1982 / 2014	26 games
Stockpiles (Warehouses;Silos;Storehouses)	Player can construct stockpiles or similar to store excess or currently unused goods.	1997 / 2018	36 games
Structure supports	Structures require supports to stay up, making destruction of the supports the fastest way to lose whole buildings.	1979 / 2020	34 games
Subtitles			0 game
Super prototype	Features a prototype version of some technology that is far superior to actual later production models. Usually these include a design flaw or some other unwanted feature that was removed from the later models explaining the change.	1993 / 2016	12 games
Superalloy (Supermetal)	Includes an alloy, metal, or other material that if anyone had the choice, they would make almost everything out of it.	1996 / 2015	15 games
Supply stations	Includes locations, devices, characters or other objects that can be used repeatedly to resupply on fuel, ammo, consumables, etc. Often without actually selecting or even telling them (activating them) you want to be resupplied. Completely for free.	2002 / 2015	28 games
SWAT(Special Weapons And Tactics)	Deals with the SWAT, a counter-terrorist unit of the police in the USA.	1986 / 2013	14 games
Syringes(Syrettes)	Tubular containers with needle attached to them, usually used to administer drugs intravenously or to extract blood or other liquids from a body.	2003 / 2017	19 games
Teens (Teenagers)	Includes human [i]children[/i] 13–17 (possibly 18–19) years of age. Or children of other sentient creatures obviously in the same condition if not age	1989 / 2012	54 games
Teleporters	Includes fixed devices or locations that teleport the player and anyone else to some other location.	1981 / 2023	202 games
Tesla coils		1996 / 2018	23 games
Thoroughfares (Rails;Routes;Paths;Trails;Roads;Streets;Highways;Waterways)	Includes any kind of thoroughfare that serves as something more than scenery.	1994 / 2018	60 games
Tower of Babel	A tower built for humanity's glory, to reach Heaven, or other (often vain) purpose. Usually inviting the wrath of the local god, gods, or equivalent beings of power.	2001 / 2012	8 games
Tracers	Includes tracer ammo, or other similar things that produce traces the player player can use.	2005 / 2016	31 games
Traffic signal system	Player can create and manage a traffic signal system of some sort.	2004 / 2016	10 games
Transcripts	Player has access to written record of what was said previously.	2013 / 2014	3 games
Traps	Player can encounter traps of one sort or another.	1982 / 2019	155 games
Trash (Unusable junk)	Player can find, collect and fiddle with large number of items that have no use what so ever.	1989 / 2015	58 games
Trees	Features trees [b][i]as more that mere scenery[/i][/b]. They play a significant part in gameplay or story.	1981 / 2021	107 games
Triad(Tong)[triads;tongs]	A type of crime organization of Chinese origin, with its American counterpart the Tong.	2000 / 2012	28 games
Tripwires		2008 / 2016	20 games
Twitch integration(TwitchTV)	Has integrated support for interacting with Twitch.tv, likely to trivially stream gameplay there and possibly integration with Twitch community interaction.	2011 / 2017	19 games
Twitter integration	Has integrated support for interacting with Twitter, likely to automatically publish somehow significant actions in-game.	2009 / 2016	19 games
Tyrant (Dictator)	Involves an oppressive ruler that bends, abolishes, ignores, and makes laws for (seemingly) personal benefit or amusement.	1982 / 2020	30 games
Ubi.com account	Requires account at Ubi.com for online multiplayer, and possibly for even offline singleplayer.	2005 / 2014	26 games
Ultimate hits	PS1 and PS2 budget range in the NTSC-J regions.	1997 / 2019	15 games
Unusual currency		1997 / 2015	19 games
UVL: Distributors	Includes info on distributors.		1 game
Vending machines	More or less functional vending machines that provide usable items for usually small amounts of money.	1993 / 2013	4 games
Ventilation (Air distribution)	Player needs to establish and maintain ventilation in some manner. Not including air cooling or similar, this is more for replenishing breathable gases.	2003 / 2019	8 games
VHS tapes			1 game
Wads of cash	A bunch of banknotes strapped together to form a compact pile of presumably set number of specific bills for easy management of large sums of money.	2005 / 2016	14 games
Waste management	Player needs to establish and maintain waste management in some manner.	1991 / 2019	10 games
Water distribution (Water supply network)	Player needs to establish and maintain water distribution in some manner.	1994 / 2016	25 games
Waterfalls	A natural wall of water. Characterized by water continuously falling down a significant distance and in excessive quantities, usually a sign of more exotic locations and often used to hide caves or other things beyond.	1986 / 2016	45 games
Whirlwinds[cyclones]	A vortex of wind, likely harmless to humans and similarly large creatures, but may throw about objects and smaller animals.		1 game
White Roses	White roses are literally or symbolically present. Traditionally they symbolize purity & true love (pure love)	1988 / 2006	10 games
Windmills	Stationary machines that translate the force of the wind [b]directly[/b] into rotational motion.	1994 / 2018	27 games
World championship(World Cup)	Involves any world championship/cup event.	1970 / 2022	254 games
World core (Planet core;Center of the Earth)	Involves the world's core somehow, as destination, location, a plot object, or such.	1988 / 2016	20 games
World tree(Yggdrasil;Irminsul)	A colossal tree that supports the heavens, the world itself (the ground essentially), or any number of other things.	1987 / 2016	18 games
Wreckage	Destroyed vehicles, buildings and such leave wrecks that block movement and whatever else. Usually these can be salvaged for resources or used as cover.	1997 / 2016	33 games
Yellow Roses	Yellow roses are literally [i]or symbolically[/i] present. Traditionally they symbolize joy & friendship.	1988 / 2004	8 games
Yggdrasil	Refers to "Yggdrasil", an immense tree that is central in Norse cosmology.	1997 / 2017	18 games
YouTube	Has integrated support for interacting with YouTube, likely to trivially submit gameplay videos there.	2008 / 2012	7 games
YuPlay	Requires login at YuPlay service.	2013 / 2014	2 games
Zip-lines	A cable, rope or such mounted on an incline commonly with a pulley or something else that does its job. Allows rapid one-way transit.	2008 / 2019	54 games

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3+ factions(Three way conflict)[3 or more factions]	There are 3 or more factions actively participating in the depicted conflict and aren't allied with each other.	1985 / 2020	145 games
3D printing(Additive manufactring)	Type of object construction where they're produced by layering the raw materials in place instead of constructing them piece by piece and assembling.	1997 / 2018	12 games
Abilities, spells, skills, etc.	Any tags referring to abilities and such in general without being restricted to certain sub-type (e.g. magic) or something plain or commonplace (e.g. locomotion).		0 game
Ability charges(Spell charges;Skill charges;Multi-charge spells;Multi-charge abilities)	Certain abilities, skills, spells, or such stack up 2 or more charges that replenish over time after being used, allowing multiple rapid uses of the ability before it enters actual cooldown where it can't be used at all.	2009 / 2018	10 games
Ability criticals(Spell criticals)	Abilities, spells, or similar can get "critical hits" much like basic attacks.	2003 / 2015	16 games
Ability ranks(Skill ranks;Spell ranks)	Abilities, skills, spells, etc. have ranks besides just saying you can do it or not.	2006 / 2016	6 games
Abnormal limbs	Player has to deal with strange non-human limbs.	2014 / 2015	5 games
Accidental discharge	Characters can accidentally fire their weapons, such as from shock (pain, electric, etc.)	2003 / 2004	2 games
Accused of plagiarism			1 game
Acrostic text	A type of writing where each first letter, syllable or word of each line or paragraph forms out a hidden message.		3 games
Action system[Action points]	A time-keeping system where available time is split into number of actions the characters can perform per turn, usually limited to 2 actions: such as move&attack or long/double move, and some special cases taking both actions.	1986 / 2018	38 games
Active ragdoll physics	Characters that are ragdolled maintain some degree of control and are still able to perform certain actions.	2014 / 2017	3 games
Active reload(Reload: Sped)	Reloading can be sped up under certain circumstances, such as by repeatedly hitting reload button or hitting it at a specific time.	2005 / 2018	30 games
Active/Passive detectors	Distinguishes between active and passive detectors, where active ones usually give more information but also reveal your location, while passive ones give less or even no information but do not reveal your location. Especially if these are toggleable.	2000 / 2013	6 games
Actual death	In the course of the game a player is shown an actual death that happened in reality, or gets to cause an actual death during the game.	1998 / 2013	6 games
Adaptive audio(Adaptive sound effects)	Sound effects change depending on what's going on, especially if this includes sound effects for the user interface or such.		3 games
Addiction (Simulated addiction)	The protagonist - and possibly other characters - may get addicted to one or more substances.	2008 / 2015	17 games
Aerial warfare	Player commands some military air force(s).	1975 / 2016	91 games
Aerokinesis (Air manipulation;Air magic)	Player character can control and/or generate air or other gaseous substances to some degree, regardless of how or why.	2000 / 2018	8 games
Aim sway (Weapon sway)	Aim sways or otherwise wanders around a bit on its own.	2006 / 2012	4 games
Air bursting	Simulates or imitates the effects of detonating explosive devices mid air instead of after they hit or penetrate a target (or hit ground or other non-target).		3 games
Alert states(Alert postures;Alert levels)	Player can control alert state, such as blue, green, yellow, red alert/condition.	2003 / 2004	2 games
All for one(Inverted sacrificial lamb)	Inversion of sacrificial lamb where all is sacrificed for the good of the "lamb" instead of the lamb being sacrificed for the good of all.	2008 / 2014	5 games
Allergies(Hypersensitivity disorders)[allergy]	Simulates allergies to a degree.	1996 / 2015	2 games
Alone (Alone against the world;Hostile world)	Player never meets any friendly or even neutral people during the game/story.	1981 / 2022	431 games
Alpha strike[alpha striking]	The act of deploying all weapons or similar to a single target simultaneously.	1995 / 2013	18 games
Altered states			0 game
Alternating protagonist	The protagonist changes between chapters or other events completely outside of player's control.	1986 / 2018	200 games
Ambient temperature	Player interacts with environmental heat and/or cold.	1987 / 2020	43 games
AMBIGUOUS: Action Points	This can either refer to `time units´ or `action system´.		3 games
Ambiguous: BMX(Bicycle motocross)	BMX alone doesn't signify much and is used to refer to either Freestyle BMX or BMX Racing depending on context.		1 game
Ammo regeneration	Ammunition regenerates or otherwise is produced out of thin air as time goes by effectively providing player unlimited ammo.	2012 / 2019	5 games
Amnesia Fortnight #1	First edition of Double Fine's game jam		1 game
Amnesia Fortnight #2	2nd edition of Double Fine's Game Jam		1 game
Amnesia Fortnight #3	3rd edition of Double Fine's game jam		1 game
Amnesia Fortnight #4 (Amnesia Fortnight 2012)	The 4th edition of Double Fine's game jam.	2012 / 2014	5 games
Animal torture	Depicts intentional torture of animals.		3 games
Animated characters	Characters are animated rather than set of static images. Should be used only if unusual, such as games where they're normally static (visual novels, for example).		3 games
Animated scenes	Includes animated scenes. Should be used only if unusual, such as games normally composed of static images like visual novels.		1 game
Anomalies	Strange abnormal occurrences that have no (clear) explanation within the mythos.	2007 / 2015	17 games
Antagonist awareness (Clairvoyant antagonist)	The antagonist expresses awareness of the protagonist's actions, location, etc. Often taunting them from afar somehow.	1982 / 2017	44 games
Anti-epilepsy[anti-epileptic]	Includes option for or is advertised as epileptic friendly or designed as such. Such as by slowing down or completely removing any flickering or rapid contrast changes the game may have by design.	2011 / 2013	9 games
Anti-humanitarian warfare	Any depictions of warfare involving things banned by international humanitarian laws, such as by Geneva and Hague conventions.		0 game
Anti-Utopian	Seemingly utopian but at the cost or result of fatal flaw(s) such as oppression, exclusion, lies or suffering, that when shown, reveals a false utopia		1 game
Anticipatory facing	Turrets, characters, and others face a direction automatically they think they're most useful to do so before the need for it. Likely direction from where the first targets appeared in previous confrontation.	2009 / 2010	2 games
Anxiety (Fear)	Simulates anxiety and its effects on the player character, their friends and/or minions.	1994 / 2018	37 games
Arcane technology[supernatural tech;magic tech]	Includes devices, machinery and whatever else that interacts with the supernatural.	2003 / 2015	6 games
Armor experience(Clothing experience)	Rather than the character wearing an armor becoming more practiced and skilled in using it, the armor itself gains power through its use.		2 games
Army of One [One Man Army]	The protagonist deals death as if they were a whole army company. Especially if the opponents treat them as such.	1989 / 2021	147 games
Art shift	During play the art [i]style[/i] changes significantly for whatever reason.	2004 / 2015	10 games
Asphyxiation(Oxygen;Drowning;Suffocation)	Player has to deal with asphyxiation or limited supply of whatever substance they require for breathing (such as oxygen). Including situations that remove or supplant the breathable substance, such as drowning, vacuum, gases, etc.	1981 / 2020	189 games
Asymmetric factions (Unique factions)	The factions have asymmetric gameplay.	1980 / 2017	113 games
Asymmetric non-irregular grid	The shapes in the grid are asymmetric but not irregular.	2012 / 2014	2 games
Attack/defense adjust	Characters' attack/defense values can be adjusted on the fly, usually shifting points from attack to defense and back.	1994 / 2015	8 games
Attacking[attacks]			0 game
Attribute drain(Stat drain)	Player may lose character attributes (strength, intelligence, agility, etc.) or similar statistics temporarily or permanently.		3 games
Attribute-based equipment	Items, even trivial ones, can't be used unless you meet certain basic and often quite arbitrary attribute limitations.	1996 / 2021	60 games
Auctions (Auction house)[auctioning]	Player (character) has access to auction style trading, commonly between other players where they place items for sale and designate minimum price and time how long the auction is open, possibly with a buyout price as well.	1977 / 2012	18 games
Audio	Any tags relating to audio, sound effects, and such.		0 game
Auras[aurae]	Fields surrounding characters or other creatures with varying effects which are often limited to friendly or hostile creatures.	2000 / 2021	27 games
Auto-move(Autocruise)	Allows somehow to automatically move somewhere, such as toggle for walk forward.	2010 / 2016	7 games
Automap (Automatic mapping)	Automatic world mapping is included, either by default or by some additional in-game device.	1979 / 2023	488 games
Automated exploration	Exploration (mapping, revealing fog of war shrouded regions, etc.) happens automatically or player can initiate automatic exploration by designating explorers.	2001 / 2015	10 games
Autosave points (Checkpoints)	Automatically saves the game progress at certain locations or when certain events occur.	1992 / 2022	550 games
Available in a Box	With the onset of ubiquitous digital distribution. It is becoming notable for a boxed version of a game to be sold.	1981 / 2022	186 games
Ballistics (Projectile physics;Bullet physics;Bullet drop)	Models projectile physics by allowing them to bounce off and penetrate certain materials as well as drop due to gravity, possibly including effects of wind and others.	1983 / 2018	231 games
Bank service	Includes a bank-like institution or service to which you can store wealth and/or items for safekeeping.	1974 / 2010	13 games
Based on real events	Advertises being based on real events, whether this is true or not however might be different.	1986 / 2016	2 games
Battle aura (Power glow)	Characters gain an aura, a halo, or a generic glow whenever they're preparing, charging or simply holding ready their powers, be those of martial fighting, magic or science.	1988 / 2011	7 games
Best Seller Series	A budget re-release line of presumably best seller games.	1996 / 2021	35 games
Beyond comprehension	A notable part of the plot involves a Thing that is beyond comprehension, so alien that your mind reels from the truth and shows only some vague approximation of what it truly is. Often an extra-dimensional entity of incomprehensible complexity.	1998 / 2011	5 games
Bilingual dialogue	Two or more characters speak multiple languages between each other understanding each other seemingly perfectly. Likely done for comedy if the other language lacks subtitles.	2000 / 2015	12 games
Binary logic	Plays with the concept of binary logic, where things have only two alternatives with nothing in between. Commonly involves extremists who think you're either with them or against them.		0 game
Binaural tones(Binaural beats)	Uses binaural tones/beats in supposed attempt to affect the player's consciousness.	2010 / 2012	0 game
Bioluminescence	Player encounters numerous light emitting flora and fauna.	2001 / 2018	78 games
Blackout(Power outage;Power failure;Power blackout)	Simulates blackouts, where parts or the entire electrical network has its power cut off for one reason or another.		2 games
Bleeding (Hemorrhaging)[Haemorrhaging]	Protagonist and other characters may get severe wounds that bleed profusely, eventually leading to the character's death if not taken care of.	1994 / 2018	50 games
Blind acquisitions(Blind purchases)	Player is presented with purchases or other acquisitions where they're not told what that thing actually does (and this is not limited to any sort of gambling).	2005 / 2016	15 games
Blinding	Player can be virtually blinded (e.g. whole screen turning white), losing visual feedback completely or near completely, forcing them to function by memory of the area or by audio cues rather than sight.	2005 / 2014	2 games
Blindness(Blind theme)	Uses blindness as a theme, gameplay mechanic, or such. Not necessarily playable by actual blind person.	1996 / 2015	5 games
Blood magic	Depicts magic powered by blood of either the caster or others be they willing or not. Often depicted as evil magic much like necromancy.	2005 / 2015	21 games
Bloodless	Despite characters getting shot, stabbed, or otherwise mutilated, there's no blood.	1975 / 2019	98 games
Bloodmist (Blood clouds)	So excessive blood splatter that it appears as large-ish mist or cloud-like phenomena (especially if pointedly created as a slowly evaporating cloud).	2007 / 2017	9 games
Boss arenas	Constrained areas from where players usually can't escape before the boss is defeated. Mostly of interest when the game otherwise does not constrain itself to small areas.	2001 / 2023	55 games
Breadcrumbs	Displays or otherwise indicates the route player has taken so far or possibly what's already been explored.	2012 / 2016	2 games
Break meter(Poise;Posture;Stability)	Involves a secondary meter, hidden or not, that when broken makes opponents more vulnerable, either causing more damage, stunning them, making them vulnerable to special attacks, or something along those lines.	2009 / 2019	29 games
Breakable doors[Destructible doors]	Doors in games are commonly indestructible, here they are not.	1983 / 2023	99 games
Breeding	Simulates procreation to a degree, with animals, characters, etc. creating offspring outside of players control.	1991 / 2018	38 games
Brownout	Simulates brownouts, where efficiency of various electrical systems is reduced as the energy supply is insufficient or capped.	2007 / 2016	6 games
Budget ranges	Any re-release budget ranges.		0 game
Builders	Building anything requires people, robots or such that build them.	1994 / 2020	134 games
Burning	Things, especially characters and other creatures, catch on fire and burn for a time.	1982 / 2019	139 games
Buy as Upgrade	Player can or must purchase a standalone game as an upgrade to a standalone product already purchased. (Do not use for DLC or add-ons.)		1 game
Cairo Pentagonal Tiling Grid (4-Fold Pentille Tiling)	A tiling pattern made of bilaterally but not radially (pentaradially) symmetrical pentagons. Or, hexagons made of 4 pentagons.		1 game
Calendric time[Calendar time]	Progress of time is tracked by weekdays, months and years or other similar counting methods.	1988 / 2015	33 games
Canada Media Fund(CMF;Fonds des médias du Canada;FMC)	CMF has provided funding for the game, a form of equity investment that can in some instances be bought out.	2012 / 2017	21 games
Card game elements	Any tags referring to concepts originally or only relating to card games. Not including card games themselves.		0 game
Carnographic(Gorn)	There isn't simply some instances of gore, splatter, and graphic violence, but they're rather (almost) a constant.	2002 / 2022	39 games
Carry capacity: Slots	Carry capacity is limited by the number of available slots. Some items may take more than one slot and some items may be stacked within single slot.	1983 / 2023	273 games
Carry capacity: Type(Category)	Carry capacity is limited per item type.	2013 / 2023	6 games
Carry capacity: Weight	Carry capacity is limited by the weight of the items.	1979 / 2021	92 games
Changing environment	The environment changes over time [i]on its own[/i] outside of player interaction with it and outside of changes invoked by plot.	2011 / 2012	5 games
Character advancement: Negative effects(Flaws)	Character advancement also adds negative effects on top of the normal positive ones.		3 games
Character background	Player can designate a background for their character which essentially covers what they were prior to the beginning of the game or prior to entering training in their chosen profession.	2003 / 2015	14 games
Character creation	Player creates one or more characters to play with, from defining their physical and mental attributes to what skills they have.	1981 / 2024	334 games
Character linked class	Classes are linked to specific characters. Usually each notable character having a class completely customized for them to a point where anything class-restricted names the character rather than their class.	2001 / 2019	3 games
Charged jump	Player can charge up the jump power to control how far or high they jump.	1990 / 2017	23 games
Chatter	The protagonist and/or their friends randomly chat with themselves or others, occasionally pointing out their observations about the environment, people they see, and other things.	1995 / 2016	16 games
Cheap death	In the depicted mythos, death is not an insurmountable obstacle. There exists technology, magic, or something else that makes returning to life somewhat trivial. Regardless if this is readily available to all (protagonist usually has easy access to it).	1995 / 2019	66 games
Chemical elements[periodic table]	Deals with chemical elements somehow, either as part of the gameplay or as a thematic element.		5 games
Chosen one (Champion)	The protagonist is chosen by someone of authority, such as a ruler, to do something important alone for whatever reason.	1985 / 2021	177 games
Chromatic aberration	Simulates the distortion effect of a flawed camera lens where colors separate visibly.	2012 / 2020	72 games
Cinematic inconsistencies(Cutscene inconsistencies)	Cinematics have content that is inconsistent with in-game content.	2005 / 2013	8 games
Class linked gender	Character gender is linked to their chosen class.	1996 / 2021	53 games
Class-based	Characters are defined by their class template that dictates what they can do and how they progress.	1981 / 2023	760 games
Class-based equipment (Class restricted equipment)	All or certain (specialist) items, tools and such can't be used at all unless the character is of certain class.	1990 / 2023	149 games
Clone conundrum	Deals with the various issues such as human rights, who is who, etc. associated with clones of people, especially if they share each others memories and personalities.	2000 / 2015	17 games
Closed beta(Founder's program)[Early Access]	Employed a closed beta phase at some point, allowing some people to play the unfinished game for a time before release. Either limited number beta keys involved and/or invite only. Includes things like Early Access.	2013 / 2019	29 games
Closed economy	There's a finite amount of actual money in the game world. So if someone hoards it all up, no-one can get any except by getting it from the one who hoarded it.	1979 / 2013	8 games
Collapse depth(Crush depth)	Simulates collapse depth, the depth at which a submersible's hull will collapse and rupture due to pressure. Especially if this varies with submersibles.	2010 / 2018	9 games
Collapsible environment		2009 / 2015	4 games
Colonialism(New World)	Involves discovery and settling of new continents, worlds, or such. Such as in progress establishment of settlements in such a place.	1971 / 2021	33 games
Color-coding[Color coding]	Any tags dealing with the strange habit of designers to color-code various elements in a way that makes them immediately distinguishable as something based on their coloration.		0 game
Combat auto loot	During or after combat all (revealed/known) loot is automatically collected for the player without any input from them.	1994 / 2017	32 games
Comic book cutscenes (Graphic novel cutscenes)	Cutscenes are delivered in comic or graphic novel format.	2001 / 2015	25 games
Commodore Max branded	These game were originally made for the Commodore Max. 100% compatible with the Commodore 64.		1 game
Conditional realism	Any tags that are only conditionally realistic. Which usually means the depiction you find in games isn't realistic, but the concept itself isn't unrealistic.		0 game
Conductive water	Water conducts electricity and likely has gameplay related to this.	1996 / 2020	12 games
Conflicting goals(Mutually exclusive goals)	Player is given multiple overall goals that conflict with each other and can not be accomplished together.		1 game
Consensus time(Time moves only as you do)	Time moves only when everyone agrees it does. Usually revolving around the player character being the only one who does not constantly agree to it and thus time moves only when the player character agrees with the rest.		6 games
Constructions	Tags related to buildings and other structures.		0 game
Consumables	Any tags related to so called consumables.		0 game
Contagions	Anything that is spread passively by those infected by it, often by touch or proximity.	2009 / 2016	5 games
Contextual movement(Contextual mobility)	Player character moves differently by choice depending on what they are on or what they're near of.	2014 / 2015	6 games
Controllable helplessness	Player can control the protagonist even in seemingly hopeless or helpless situation, regardless if the player can actually improve the situation.	1983 / 2018	113 games
Controller reference(Controller allusion)	One or more of the game's titles (redundantly) references, directly or indirectly, the controller they're for or meant to be played with.	2010 / 2017	16 games
Corporate warfare	Depicts corporations warring against other corporations.	1993 / 2015	24 games
Correct Release Date	The entered release date is correct despite what stated in screenshots and other media.	1980 / 2015	3 games
Corrupted terms	Any tags that refer to something the meaning of which has been corrupted since their heyday.		0 game
Cover system: Automatic(Autocover;Automatic cover usage)[auto-cover;auto cover]	Player characters will automatically take cover if not told to do otherwise.	2006 / 2017	5 games
Cover system: Contextual	Player character will change movement and positioning based on context to use cover or pop out of cover without specifically doing so from secondary actions, such as peeking around a corner when one tries to aim a gun.	2009 / 2013	4 games
Crafting tools	Some or all crafting requires tools (other than those provided by potential worksites) to perform the job.	2009 / 2012	6 games
Crafting worksites[crafting sites]	Some or all crafting involves finding (or creating) a location where the things can be crafted, such as a workbench or tool set, or you can build one yourself.	2003 / 2023	45 games
Crafting: Jewelry			1 game
Crafting: Restoratives	Player can craft healing or other restorative items or objects.	2012 / 2013	2 games
Crashing(Harmful collisions)	Characters, vehicles, etc. an collide harmfully with the environment.	2011 / 2018	3 games
Creative subtitles	Subtitles are used in creative manner, such as involving some kind of animation or unusual placement, to reflect the contents, the context, or the way they relate to everything.	2014 / 2017	5 games
Creature familiarity(Enemy familiarity)	Characters gain bonuses or extra actions to dealing with creatures they're more familiar with.	2013 / 2016	2 games
Cross-map triggers(Cross-level triggers)	Some triggers in one map cause changes in another, such as a control room in one map changing the state of a drawbridge in another.	1995 / 2008	3 games
Cross-region accounts(Cross-server accounts)	Accounts work on multiple disparate regions. Requires clear regioning of the game, such as to North American and European servers.		1 game
Crouchjump	Players can jump higher by crouching at the height of the jump.	1998 / 2013	8 games
Crowdfunded(Crowd financed)[Crowdsourced]	Any game project that used crowd funding.	2008 / 2022	600 games
Cryokinesis (Ice magic)	Player character can control and/or generate ice/cold to some degree, regardless of how or why.	1995 / 2021	29 games
Cuneiform Language			0 game
Currency (money)	Uses consistent abstract medium of exchange such as coins of intrinsic or fiat value, government or bank issued notes, credit, or an abundant consistent commodity	1970 / 2022	736 games
Cutscene incompetence(Cinematic incompetence)	During one or more cutscenes characters, especially the protagonist, display excessive incompetence that they according to all other evidence should not fall victim of.	2004 / 2015	6 games
Daily challenges	Each day the game generates one or more challenges for players to tackle, usually with online leaderboard that resets or cycles with each day. In some instances these have limited tries per player.	2012 / 2017	13 games
Damage	Any tags relating to how damage is dealt, modeled, or other effects it has including types and any interactions with things.		0 game
Damage drop-off(Damage falloff;Damage reduction at range)[Damage fall-off;Damage dropoff]	Damage lowers with distance.	2003 / 2017	16 games
Damage types, resistances and invulnerabilities	Damage is split into various types that may or may not be unrelated to each other, providing the basics of damage type resistance and immunity/invulnerability.	1985 / 2023	170 games
Dark choices	Player is made to choose between two or more options where each and every one of them are clearly the bad choice. Thus there's no real lesser of two evils, but rather one evil or another, or extremely drastic measure over an utterly foolhardy one.	2012 / 2013	3 games
Dated events	Certain events happen on specific in-mythos dates like 18th of February or every second Sunday of August.	1988 / 2015	14 games
Day-one DLC[day one DLC;day 1 DLC]	Separately purchasable DLC was made available on release.	2009 / 2017	39 games
Dead on display	Dead people are or have been put on display, either for intimidation, reverence, or some other reason instead of left to be, buried, or cremated.	2008 / 2019	19 games
Deadly sides	Going past the left or right side of the screen or scene causes death or other loss condition.	1995 / 2017	46 games
Deaf friendly	Either conveys no vital information via sounds or provides closed captioning for them.	2014 / 2022	4 games
Decensored	Originally censored but later updated to remove the censoring.	2009 / 2013	3 games
Defenseless	The protagonist lacks any direct method to protect themselves, mainly the lack of any capability to fight off anything that attacks them. This forces player to run away or otherwise evade enemies rather than fight them.	1979 / 2022	79 games
Degrees of Success(DoS)	Rolls to succeed, challenge vs skill comparisons, etc. don't have a hard threshold of success and failure but have multiple grades ranging from failure to partial success to full success, possibly padded with catastrophic failure and exceptional success.		3 games
Delayed release	Released notable time period after the game was finished. Possibly to avoid competition with other titles.	2008 / 2012	9 games
DELETE			1 game
DELETE: Dupe of GCOS			0 game
Demo save import	Player can import saves from demo version of the game into the full game in one manner or another, whether this is automatic or requires player to manually do something (except hacking or similar).	2012 / 2015	5 games
Depth fog (Ambient fog;Cull fog)	Uses a depth fog or similar effect, either to simulate fog or to hide rendering cut-off point.	1994 / 2018	46 games
Desperate power	Some characters (especially if protagonist) gain more power (in any form) as they become more wounded, beaten down, or otherwise nearing defeat.	1992 / 2013	19 games
Destructible environment	The environment can be destroyed in a more or less limited fashion, but often leaving the base level structure intact.	1984 / 2023	376 games
Destructible items	Items that the player can pick up and use, place in their inventory and so forth can be destroyed while lying about.	1991 / 2015	41 games
Development styles		2000 / 2015	8 games
Dialog: Actions(Physical actions)	Dialog occasionally includes physical actions as options, regardless if this actually is any different from spoken actions.	1986 / 2015	9 games
Dialog: Time limit	Player has limited time to choose their responses and possibly perform other actions during them, before some default choice is selected or even one not available otherwise.	2005 / 2016	20 games
Dialogue log	Player has access to a log of past dialog content.		1 game
Dice physics[physics dice]	Dice are rolled by simulating physics of them rolling around and landing one way or another instead of directly reading RNG output.	2007 / 2016	11 games
Dice pool	Results of rolls are determined by rolling multiple dice simultaneously, either summing up the dice, counting dice that break a threshold, or some other method.	1992 / 2016	18 games
Dice pool: Variable[Variable dice pool]	Uses dice pool where the number of dice can change depending on circumstances.	2009 / 2016	8 games
Dice reroll	Players and possible NPCs can at times opt to reroll.	2015 / 2016	8 games
Diet choice	Player has choice of what the protagonist can or is willing to eat.		1 game
Dimensional travel (Planar travel)	Involves traveling between dimensions or planes of existence, whether this is voluntarily or not.	1988 / 2024	143 games
Disc-locked content(On-disc DLC)	Separately purchasable DLC content is delivered on the game's original release disc.		4 games
Distorted hearing(Impaired hearing)[audio]	Something can cause the protagonist's hearing to get distorted or otherwise impaired. Especially cases where the hearing is always distorted	2004 / 2020	24 games
Distorted vision(Impaired vision)	Something can cause the protagonist's vision to get distorted or otherwise impaired. Especially cases where the vision is always distorted	1994 / 2020	220 games
Disturbed nature	Nature, its laws and the natural order of things have been somehow disturbed, broken, or altered in the depicted scenario.	2005 / 2016	9 games
Divine absence(Absent gods;Dead gods)	God or gods are missing, dead, abandoned the world, or just unresponsive to the mortals, and this is causing problems in the world.	2005 / 2013	16 games
Dolly zoom(Vertigo effect)	Originally a photographing technique that involves the depth of an image to change so the scene stretches while the focal element seems unchanged. Accomplished by adjusting focal length while moving the camera away or towards the focal object.	2001 / 2016	18 games
Dominion (Area of Influence;Sphere of Influence)[AOI;SOI]	Gameplay involves dealing with areas of influence or similar regions that indicate how far and wide one has some form of influence.	1993 / 2017	47 games
Doomclock(Doomsday Clock)	Features some kind of doomclock that ticks either with time or certain events forward towards the end.	2011 / 2019	15 games
Double life(Secret identity)	The protagonist leads a double life.		1 game
Drunkenness	Character in the game have the option to drink alcoholic drinks until drunk.	1983 / 2020	19 games
Dynasty	Deals with a line of rulers that come from the same family/bloodline.	2012 / 2014	2 games
Earthquake (Quake)	Player experiences one or more quakes and potentially their aftershocks.	1984 / 2020	56 games
Economic Decline	The player must deal with a widespread situation of economic decline.		1 game
Economy	Any tags relating to economy simulation.		0 game
Ecosystems (Biomes)	Simulates multiple disparate ecosystems to a degree.	2011 / 2023	24 games
Educational content: Culture		1986 / 2016	10 games
Elastic surfaces	Player encounters and must deal with elastic surfaces of any kind.	2011 / 2015	9 games
Electrical conduction	Simulates electrical conduction.		1 game
Electrokinesis	Player character can control and/or generate electricity to some degree, regardless of how or why.	1994 / 2021	52 games
Elevation	Elevation has effects on gameplay besides Line-of-Sight.	2000 / 2017	20 games
Elevator battle	A fairly simple scene where player is attacked during an elevator ride somehow. Commonly involves an open elevator of some sorts at a side of a building or a freight elevator.	1995 / 2019	43 games
Enemy parity(NPC parity)	Enemies use much of the same systems player does. This is especially of interest for systems-driven games or similar where player can learn about the systems by observing enemies.	2002 / 2018	16 games
Enemy power up on death(Enemy powerup on defeat)	Your opponents power up when you are defeated, such as gaining a level or some other buff that makes them harder to defeat the next time you encounter them.		5 games
Enemy route indicator	Somehow displays the route your opponents will take.	2010 / 2015	6 games
Energy regeneration: Slow	Energy regenerates so slowly it's hardly of any use when you run out and need more.	1992 / 2021	10 games
Energy regeneration: Stunted	Energy regeneration works only up to a point (such as restoring a partial segment to full but not beyond it, or up to a certain percentage of full energy), never fully restoring it.	2012 / 2016	2 games
Energy regeneration(Mana regeneration)	Energy used by magic, electric devices, special skills or other things automatically regenerates over time.	1994 / 2021	209 games
Energy upkeep reserve (Mana upkeep;Magic point upkeep)	Magics or other energy consuming actions may require a portion of your maximum energy to be set aside as upkeep for as long as that magic or action remains.	2006 / 2016	8 games
Enlarging protagonist(Growing protagonist)	The main character increases in size, beyond what is normal for them (that is, not including growing back to their original size after being shrunk).	1982 / 2018	13 games
Epic powers	The protagonist possesses powers that are epic in scale, affecting colossal things such as whole worlds or even farther. Mostly of interest when normal scale is much smaller.	2008 / 2012	6 games
Epileptic Visuals	More than most, these games pose a higher risk of seizures due to flashing, specific contrasting patterns, or other known visual factors.	1986 / 2017	4 games
Equipment abilities(Equipment actions)	Characters gain new abilities or actions with new items that do not explicitly need that item to do or should be doable with other equipment as much.	2013 / 2017	8 games
Equipment experience	Rather than the character using some kind of equipment becoming more practiced and skilled in using it, the equipment itself gains power through its use.	2000 / 2015	12 games
Erosion	Simulates erosion, natural elements moving away solids to another location (e.g. river moving sediment downstream), to a degree.	2011 / 2012	3 games
Eternal fires	You've just entered a location that hasn't been visited in ages (if ever) by intelligent creatures, yet you find torches, fireplaces, and such happily burning as if someone had just switched and lighted them all for your pleasure.	2010 / 2017	10 games
Event log(Activity log)	Has a log of recent events player can peruse.	2007 / 2016	25 games
Evil genius (Evil wizard;Evil intellectual)[Mad scientist;Mad wizard;Insane scientist;Insane wizard]	A single - presumably highly intellectual - person is causing trouble in the world.	1985 / 2017	49 games
Executive meddling	Lead designers, writers, or such have voiced their displeasure at executive meddling with their vision, usually in form of marketing people requiring something be changed in a game to better sell it.		1 game
Exile (Banishment)	Plot deals with exile/banishment.	2012 / 2013	3 games
Experience			0 game
Experience: Attack	Experience is gained simply by attacking, regardless if this defeats the opponent or possibly even causes any harm.	1988 / 2014	5 games
Experience: Deeds (Quests;Missions;Tasks;Objectives)	Experience is gained by doing various deeds, such as completing or progressing missions, tasks, quests, or other objectives.	1979 / 2022	239 games
Experience: Defense[Defence]	Experience is gained by defending oneself, even if this is just being hurt and taking hits otherwise with no active attempt.	1988 / 2014	5 games
Experience: Drops	Experience is awarded from collecting dropped experience nuggets.	2008 / 2016	16 games
Experience: Encounters	Player character(s) gain experience from resolving encounters, whatever those may be and whatever they may involve.	2014 / 2015	2 games
Experience: Exploration	Experience is awarded for exploration, finding or visiting new (possibly hidden) locations or location markers.	1979 / 2015	15 games
Experience: Killing-Blow Bonus	In addition to a base experience system, more experience is awarded to a character that delivers a killing blow.	1989 / 2020	3 games
Experience: Kills/Defeats (Murder;Slaughter;Destruction;Defeats)	Experience is awarded for killing, destroying or otherwise defeating things, usually living creatures.	1978 / 2022	864 games
Experience: Level match	New characters that join your team have their experience adjusted to match yours, making it unnecessary for you to prioritize getting them into your team early on for reasons of avoiding xp grind.	1998 / 2017	29 games
Experience: Literal (Character advancement: Literal experience;Learn by doing)	Experience (and thus advancement) is gained by literally doing what you want to get better at, meaning you get better at swimming by swimming, get more accurate with guns by shooting with them, get better at preparing food by cooking, etc.	1984 / 2018	128 games
Experience: Lockpicking	Experience is awarded for opening locks without the proper key, be it door, chest, or other locks.	1998 / 2023	18 games
Experience: Method / Style	Experience is awarded based on the method, manner, or style of doing something.	2011 / 2016	15 games
Experience: None	Experience points do not exist despite being an RPG or having a character advancement system.	1985 / 2020	32 games
Experience: Objects	Experience is awarded from collecting certain objects or using certain items (e.g. potion of experience).	1985 / 2020	123 games
Experience: Other	Experience is gained from an unusual activity or source.	1988 / 2015	20 games
Experience: Passive(Idle;Time)	Experience is gained passively for doing nothing at all, or alternatively from aging.		1 game
Experience: Plot progress (Game progress)	Experience or other advancement points are awarded for progressing through the plot/game.	1984 / 2019	36 games
Experience: Shared	Any experience gained in a group is shared between all members of the group regardless of participation in what prompted the gain.	1988 / 2023	78 games
Experience: Tenuously Literal	Experience/advancement gained by activity tenuously connected or entirely disconnected to the skill that is improved. Dog bites increase max speed. Apply poison to knifes to gain max strength. Move silently to improve left-hand attacks.		1 game
Experience: Trading	Experience is awarded from trading and related activities.	2002 / 2007	2 games
Experience: Undefined	Source of experience gain is unknown or otherwise undefined.	1991 / 2019	47 games
Experimental technology (Prototype technology)	Depicts experimental or prototype technology in practical use.	1992 / 2017	47 games
Exploding criticals	Criticals can crit. Essentially a system that tests if you do a critical and if successful, it tests it again.		1 game
Explored indicator	Somehow shows what places you've already explored (fully or not) or been to. Mainly when this is not otherwise indicated, such as via automap.		1 game
Exponential costs	Cost of buying more of the same thing increases with each one you already have of it.	2009 / 2012	2 games
Extermination war(Extinction war)	Plot involves a war or such where one side of the conflict primarily aims to fully exterminate a race or species.	1998 / 2016	8 games
External documentation	Most of the game documentation is only available in sources external to the game package and runtime. Such as tutorial or other information only available on a website when the game is played without a browser.	2011 / 2014	4 games
External notification	Offers notification services through external systems, such as e-mail or SMS.	2009 / 2010	2 games
Fake crash(Fake BSOD)	Pretends the computer, console, or such has crashed, displaying more or less convincing error screen, such as BSOD for Windows, kernel panic screen for Linux, and so forth.	2002 / 2016	5 games
Falloff death	Falling out of the play field results in death. As opposed to transitioning to a different area. This can coexist.	1983 / 2013	11 games
False advertising(Misleading advertising)[False advertizing;Misleading advertizing]	Promotional material for the game near or post release show things that are not in the game or use other advertising material not present in the game in similar form. Or otherwise use misleading advertising.	1992 / 2013	7 games
False Hints	The game is purposefully designed with a source of hints within the game that gives outright false information. Lies, basically.	1987 / 2014	6 games
False history	History as you know it is a lie.	2007 / 2011	11 games
Falsehoods	A collection of specific occurrences of non-truth.		0 game
Fame (Infamy;Recognition;Notoriety)	Player is assigned a score that tells how famous they are, how likely people are to have heard of you and know of your deeds.	1987 / 2015	26 games
Famicom Disk Fax	Famicom Disk System games featuring the ability to send in your high scores via fax for the chance to win prizes. The game usually came on blue disks.	1987 / 1988	4 games
Family project	Development team has only members of the same family, whether this is immediate, extended, in-laws or such.	2006 / 2015	9 games
Fan translated	Has a translation to one or more other languages available as provided by fans of the game rather than anything official (though may be approved [but not supported] officially).	1998 / 2011	7 games
Fateless	Deals with people who have no fate unlike everyone else or at least most others. Likely only the protagonist (or the protagonist's kind if it's somehow different) is said to be this.	1995 / 2017	16 games
Fatigue	Characters suffer from extended periods exertion or staying awake, ranging from simple fatigue to more drastic ailments. Usually fixed by a good night's rest.	1982 / 2018	62 games
Feather fall	Includes a limited use device, ability, spell, or such that allows the protagonist to fall from great heights without fear of dying or injuring themselves from the drop.	1996 / 2015	4 games
Feedback(Impact;Sense of weight)	Any concepts that relate to sense of weight, impact, or general feedback to player character's physical actions.		0 game
Financial and business models			0 game
Finite ammo	Ammo even for the starter weapon can run out. This tag is mostly useful if unusual, such as for scrolling shooters.	1978 / 2022	59 games
First-party title[First-party game]	Developed by platform manufacturer's own development studio or produced&published by the platform manufacturer for it. Explicitly platform exclusive except in cases where same platform manufacturer has multiple active platforms.	1981 / 2018	214 games
Flanking	Somehow simulates the benefits of flanking, such as giving bonuses to hit chance, greater chance of lethally wounding, etc.	2004 / 2018	25 games
Flat damage reduction(Flat damage soak)	The combat mechanics involve flat damage reduction, which reduces the incoming damage by flat amount rather than proportional (e.g. 10 points instead of 10%). This makes certain weak attacks have absolutely no effect.	2001 / 2017	12 games
Flat space (Two-dimensional space)	Space, despite its lack of any limitations on movement and positioning, is depicted as a flat expanse of nothing.	2000 / 2017	43 games
Flower motif		2004 / 2006	3 games
Follow in someone's footsteps[follow in the footsteps of someone]	Plot involves someone following in the footsteps of another, usually someone's descendant following the footsteps of their parents/ancestors. Also including attempts to avoid doing exactly that.	2003 / 2014	6 games
Font options	Player is given options for fonts, such as size, style, and possibly coloration and other visual decoration such as backgrounds.	2016 / 2022	4 games
Forced berserking	Some characters, possibly the protagonist, can cause others to go berserk, attacking friend and foe without distinction.	2012 / 2016	6 games
Forced polymorph(Forced shapechange)[baleful polymorph]	Some beings in the setting can force others to take some other form. Commonly lasts only a short while.	1985 / 2022	48 games
Forced suicide	Involves someone or something forcing another to commit suicide by any means, be it mind control, intimidation, or such.	2001 / 2017	6 games
Forced teleport	Player character(s) or NPCs can forcibly teleport other non-friendly characters elsewhere.	2010 / 2013	8 games
Former vaporware	Was considered vaporware for a long time but came out eventually anyway.	2003 / 2020	22 games
Fractionals[fractions;decimals;irrational numbers;real numbers]	Player deals with fractional numbers to some degree instead of or in addition to plain integers.	2000 / 2014	11 games
Free slicing(Freeform cutting)	Allows slicing characters and/or objects as the player wishes instead of along predefined cutting points.	2010 / 2017	14 games
Freeze frames	Uses freeze frames, pausing the scene completely for a moment, likely panning the camera around some subject of interest.	2013 / 2017	4 games
Freezing	Things, especially characters and other creatures, can be frozen to a degree.	1995 / 2016	25 games
Friendly Fire	Player can attack their own side purposefully or by accident or be attacked themself in similar manner.	1979 / 2018	228 games
Friendly hostiles	You can encounter enemies, that are clearly marked as enemies to be defeated, such as targetable with appropriate markers, yet you can interact with them like with friendly NPCs.		1 game
Full voice-overs	Every conceivable bit that could be spoken out loud, is.	1995 / 2015	12 games
Fully refunded expenses	Cancelling a purchase, or selling something back, gives money and any resources back in full.	2013 / 2014	2 games
Fusion mode(Fusion dance;Fusion super mode)	Two or more characters somehow fuse their powers for even greater power. Usually involves only one character remaining behind with the others merging together or disappearing until the end of the fusion.	1994 / 2021	9 games
G-force induced Loss Of Consciousness(G-LOC)	Simulates G-LOC in some manner.	2012 / 2015	7 games
Game mode developer discrepancy	Not all game modes were made by the same developer. This often leads to the game modes being very different from each other.	2006 / 2020	8 games
Game mode discrepancy	There are differences for same thing depending in which game mode you encounter or use it. For example shotgun might be instant kill at close range for singleplayer nide while it does not do so in multiplayer.	2010 / 2015	6 games
Gameplay innovation	Games that really started something new.	1971 / 2017	126 games
Gas hazards(Aerosol hazards)	Includes areas where dangerous gases are present, whether these cause direct damage, asphyxiation, poisoning, or some other effects. This also includes aerosols, spores, and other similar and similarly dealt with hazards.	2003 / 2016	14 games
Gender bender	Character gender is altered at some point of the game, possibly permanently.	1985 / 2017	24 games
Gender choice	Player can choose the gender of the main character.	1974 / 2023	1115 games
Gender effects	Player's gender choice has more gameplay effects than whatever is seen in character creation. Such as completely different dialog trees, actions not available to the other gender, NPCs behaving differently, etc.	2012 / 2016	5 games
Gender-neutral (Androgynous protagonist;Ambiguous gender)	The protagonist's gender can't be determined, there is no protagonist, or otherwise does not make assumptions about player (character) gender or similar.	1982 / 2020	86 games
Generational	Player controls several passing generations of people.	2009 / 2018	12 games
Generic pickups	Various pickups have as little detail attached to them as there can be even though what they contribute to is not treated in similar manner. Such as if weapons use different kinds of ammo, but there's only one kind of ammo pickup that fills any of th		2 games
Geokinesis (Earth manipulation;Earth magic)[lithokinesis;geomancy]	Player character can control and/or generate earth, soil and related things to some degree, regardless of how or why.	2000 / 2012	8 games
Ghosted motion	Movement of some things, such as certain characters or actions can have the character or the action have one or more ghost of itself (or slow motion blur trails) move slightly before or after the actual thing.	1998 / 2015	9 games
Glare	Simulates glare to some degree, making it difficult to see in presence of a bright light.	2001 / 2011	4 games
Glitch visuals	The visual design includes glitches occurring in varying frequency and severity, regardless if these have any meaning or function outside of the visual design.	2005 / 2017	47 games
Global organization	Involves an organization that works in all corners of the world (or even all corners of the universe if it's in space age).	1994 / 2014	18 games
Global Positioning System	Player is either constantly aware of their position in the world or can trivially ascertain it, such as by opening their map.	1999 / 2010	4 games
Gradual expenses(Partial expenses)	Expenses are charged as needed in small bits when possible, such as paying for individual materials to build the end product as needed rather than the end product itself. Or player can put small parts of the total payment in at a time.	2007 / 2014	5 games
Grant funded[grant funding;grant-funded;grant-funding]	Received funding in form of a grant from some organization or government.	2010 / 2020	24 games
Gratuitous titillation(Borderline erotica)	Borderline erotica without actually pushing over certain boundaries to be such.	2014 / 2015	11 games
Gray choices(Ambiguous choices)[grey choices]	Player is made to choose between two or more options in which none seem better or worse than the other or are vague on their effects, especially when all options are bad.	2008 / 2016	30 games
Grid	Uses a grid of any shape or type.	1972 / 2023	3587 games
Grid of Wang Tiles	Four right triangles form a square arranged in a standard square grid.		2 games
Grid-Extradimensional	Any grid using more than 3 dimensions.		1 game
Gridless	Does not use a grid where one is to be expected. In strategy and war games for instance.	1992 / 2019	27 games
Ground effect	Simulates the aerodynamic concept known as ground effect that gives aircraft increased lift and reduced drag near fixed surfaces.		1 game
Group (Squad-based;Party-based)	Player is part of a group and can issue some form of instructions to (or, in some instances, assume full control of) the other members.	1975 / 2023	1175 games
Group leader (Squad leader;Party leader)	Player has direct control of only the leader, with little indirect control of the the others.	1996 / 2016	72 games
Guerrilla (Guerrilla warfare)		2008 / 2016	8 games
Guild (Trade union;Labor union;Labor organization)	An association of craftsmen in a particular trade working towards common goals.	1991 / 2018	25 games
Hallucinations (Delusions)	Player character experiences hallucinations of varying severity.	1988 / 2019	55 games
Hammerspace(Malletspace)	Player character stores abnormally large objects in their pockets or other luggage that should NOT be able to hide them, especially if such pull-out-of-pocket action is shown.	1988 / 2018	49 games
Healing items	Player can carry about healing items and use them when necessary.	1980 / 2023	724 games
Healing stations (Health stations;Medical stations)	Player can find stations, devices, characters, or other objects that can be used repeatedly to heal wounds and possibly other ailments.	1981 / 2020	189 games
Health buffer(Temporary hitpoints)	Player can gain a secondary health bar that is depleted before the actual health is ever touched, this can exist in form of temporary hitpoints, armor, shields, or pretty much anything but functions the same.	1995 / 2021	95 games
Health regeneration	The protagonist regenerates health automatically over time.	1982 / 2022	531 games
Health regeneration: Activity Levels	Activities offer several rates of regen (even to none), ie: combat (slowest), combat-ready, running, walking, standing, sitting, lying down (fastest).		1 game
Health regeneration: Slow	Health regenerates so slowly it won't save you even if you get a few moments of peace. Requires long downtime between battles to help at all.	1991 / 2021	40 games
Health regeneration: Stunted	Health regeneration works only up to a point (such as restoring a partial segment to full but not beyond it, or up to a certain percentage of full health), never fully restoring it.	2001 / 2017	54 games
Heat transfer	Heat transfers, seeking thermal equilibrium. Especially if player interacts with this somehow.	1987 / 2020	6 games
Held jump	Jump height is dependant on how long the jump button is pressed, but this is not pre-charged, jump starts (near) immediately upon pressing jump button and drop starts soon after releasing it or reaching maximum height.	2015 / 2016	3 games
Hexagonal grid	Uses grid of 6 sided convex shapes.	1976 / 2024	780 games
Hold/tap toggle	Has option to toggle the need to repeatedly tap a control to just holding it in place.	2018 / 2022	4 games
Home(House owning)	Player has or can have a home of some sort with attached activities, though may only serve minimally as a stash and/or diegetic information display of things like achievements and other inconsequential bits.	1983 / 2019	75 games
HUD malfunctioning	The HUD may occasionally malfunction, usually when it is explained (e.g. hi-tech visor or cybernetic eye with info feeds) and thus can be (temporarily) damaged.	2008 / 2013	14 games
Human resources(Human cattle)	Humans (or anything equivalent sentient species or protagonist's own species) are treated as rather literal resources, harvested for spare (body) parts or other materials or used as whole as components in something.	1997 / 2015	19 games
Humanism	Deals with humanism, philosophical and ethical ideas that value humanity as individuals and as a collective.		3 games
Humanity's wake[after humanity;after humans]	Events after the end of the human species.	1988 / 2015	29 games
Humidity	Simulates humidity and its effects to a degree.	2011 / 2012	3 games
Hunger(Starvation)[starving;malnutrition]	Player must keep their characters and/or minions fed with solid or semisolid sources of nutrition lest they suffer starvation and possibly death.	1974 / 2023	506 games
Hydrokinesis(Water manipulation;Water magic)	Player character can control and/or generate water or other liquids to some degree, regardless of how or why.	2010 / 2015	12 games
Hygiene (Cleanliness)	Simulates hygiene to a degree, possibly having effects on social interactions, health, or some other things.	2001 / 2021	16 games
Hypermuscles (Muscular hypertrophy)	Involves characters with abnormally prominent musculature. Realistically these are either very dedicated bodybuilders (who also possibly - but not necessarily - ingest certain nutrients), or people with muscular hypertrophy.	2003 / 2016	22 games
Hyperthermia(Heatstroke)	Simulates effects of hyperthermia in some manner, including things like excessive sweating, heatstrokes, and anything else.		1 game
Ignored vandalism	NPCs pointedly ignore the protagonist's vandalism (or never hold him/her accountable for it) as they go about stealing from them, destroying their property, and otherwise terrorizing short of directly mugging and/or killing the people themselves.	2012 / 2017	5 games
Ill-equipped	You start out your quest to save the universe with a stick, or the near equivalent of.	1981 / 2020	126 games
Immobile	Player does not control movement from place to place – nor is moved by the game itself – despite the game type usually including that. Not including level selection or similar.	2007 / 2014	7 games
Impact angle	Simulates the effects of impact angle, such as penetrating with direct hits, scraping at medium angle, and glancing/ricocheting at extreme angle.	2003 / 2016	13 games
Impact shock	Getting hit, shot, or such can send the player character/vehicle reeling, shaking, staggering, or such, messing up with aim, micro stunning and/or other things.		1 game
Imperfect healing	Any immediate healing the player can use can not accomplish perfect results.	1992 / 2018	9 games
Impossible geometry (Impossible objects;Undecidable figures;Impossible figures;Impossible architecture)	Somehow deals with impossible geometry.	1996 / 2014	13 games
In-genre gameplay innovation	Innovates in some significant way within a genre, but not in a way that is notable for other types of games. Generally involves breaking out of the mold that other games establish for the genre.	1981 / 2015	10 games
Incarnated Divine Beings (Incarnated Angels; Incarnated Demons; Incarnated Deities)	Features unearthly divine spirits housed in earthly bodies. (vulnerable earthly bodies, not just in appearance only)	1982 / 2018	74 games
Incomplete multiplayer information	Is known to have multiplayer but lacks details on it.		1 game
Inconclusive ending	The ending leaves the original or biggest issue unsolved without having made it a non-issue or without a proper sequel hook.	2001 / 2017	5 games
Indigenous Residents (Natives)	Interaction with (or avoidance of) indigenous residents effects gameplay.	1981 / 2000	11 games
Infestation	Deals with the presence of abnormally large quantity of parasites, rodents, aliens or other pests that normally wouldn't be expected to be in the presented location(s).	1997 / 2011	11 games
Infinite resources[Unlimited resources;Endless resources]	As long as you have access to a source of a resource, you can collect from it indefinitely or resources regenerate indefinitely after being depleted.	1995 / 2019	35 games
Infinite shop stock(Endless shop stock)	Shops and similar sources of things have infinite stock, never running out of items or other supposedly finite things.		0 game
Information	Any tags referring to information player is given.		0 game
Information warfare			4 games
Instant killers	Regardless of how many hit points the player character has, there are still things out there that can kill them outright.	1991 / 2018	104 games
Intentionally broken	Game is broken on purpose, such as bugs discovered (or added) before release, being left unfixed, without time or budget limitations. Sometimes to cover up lack of promised features.	2014 / 2015	3 games
Interactive dialogues	Includes dialogues where the player has some control over the course they take.	1985 / 2024	324 games
Interest income	Player gains income through interest, usually by depositing wealth in a bank, giving out loans, or some such.	1974 / 2014	21 games
Interface puzzle	Learning to operate the game interface is one of the goals of the game.		1 game
Internal vision	Player can see the insides (organs, skeletons, etc.) of characters, vehicles, etc. without having to open them up. So far used mostly to graphically depict how people are hurt by various attacks.	2011 / 2015	15 games
Invasion	The plot involves hostile invasion of territory in some manner, such as as part of war of aggression.	1982 / 2024	29 games
Inventory	Player has an item storage of unspecified capacity they can access.	1979 / 2023	1763 games
Inverse time(Reverse time;Backwards time)	Time is inverted with the game starting from the end of the story and progresses towards the beginning, and not simply by taking events out of chronological order but rather everything happens in reverse order.	2012 / 2014	5 games
Investors (Financiers)	Gameplay involves investors funding your project(s). With player primarily trying to keep the investors satisfied with you and thus keep funding the project(s). May involve trying to find (additional) investors.	1981 / 2014	16 games
Invincibility frames(Invulnerability frames)[iframes]	Employs moments of invincibility tied to certain animation frames, such as certain dodges. This tag is only when the iframes aren't specified better with something else.	2009 / 2022	27 games
Involuntary actions	The protagonist may suddenly decide to do something that is not what the player commanded them to do, whether or not this was voluntary for the protagonist either. Only when this happens out of scripted events (cutscenes).	1992 / 2018	10 games
Irregular grid	A 2D space of irregular or arbitrary divisions used as if it were a regular grid. Divisions such as divided territories (but not settlements) on a map	1982 / 2020	210 games
ISC License	A simplified BSD & MIT amalgamation. Effectively grants credit to & simultaneously absolves the author of all issues of morality created by their work	2009 / 2015	2 games
Item charges	Includes items with multiple depletable charges/uses, when these are distinguishable from item stacks.	2010 / 2018	18 games
Item comparison	Offers easy way to compare two or more items, usually by displaying them side-by-side and possibly highlighting differences.	2011 / 2020	27 games
Item pickup: Global	There's no range limits to where you can pick-up items. This may however be limited to drops by enemies ("loose items") and not things placed in the environment.	2007 / 2014	7 games
Item pickup: Stash excess	Upon trying to pick up items you can't store in your inventory, the new item is stored in your stash automatically.		1 game
Item recharging	Depletable charges/uses from certain items can be replenished without buying the item again. Such as filling an empty bottle. Even if such items have only one use, as long as the depleted item can be recharged.	2010 / 2018	18 games
Item sets	Includes item sets that when used together impart additional bonuses or effects.	2000 / 2021	43 games
Job system	A variant of class system where characters can freely (no limit how many times) swap between classes (jobs), retaining pretty much everything they had in them. Although mostly the currently selected job is actually usable.	2002 / 2019	23 games
Jukebox	Offers some way to play all or most music/songs of the game as player sees fit.	1995 / 2014	5 games
Junk inventory(Autosell inventory;Quick sell inventory)	Player can designate items as junk that still keeps them in the inventory but removes them from normal browsing, usually with the purpose of quick selling all items marked as such and speed up inventory management.	2011 / 2016	14 games
Karma (Alignment;Reputation)	Player character's deeds affect the manner in which they're known, regardless of how well or far.	1985 / 2023	122 games
Keycodes (Key sequences;Access codes;Passwords)	Player is required to locate keycodes - and possibly to fill in missing characters in them - to gain access to something.	1987 / 2019	53 games
Konami the best	Re-released japanese games published by Konami in Japan.		1 game
Land warfare		1975 / 2018	133 games
Language: Pictographic	Language such as speech or writing is represented through the use of pictographs.	1989 / 2015	13 games
Last of a kind	The protagonist is one of the last or [i]the[/i] last representative of a kind.	1994 / 2016	11 games
Latent ability (Latent power;Potential)[latent abilities;latent powers;dormant powers]	The protagonist has potential for something great and may or may not know of it before it rears its ugly head.	2004 / 2009	5 games
Lego genetics	Gene manipulation works by injecting specific traits like hairyness, extra alien arm, horse leg, etc. specific things to other beings.	2000 / 2015	5 games
Lens flare (Diffraction spike)	A visual artefact seen in photography, video recording, telescopes, and others where lenses are used. That said, human eye sees the effect quite differently than what cameras and such do, but the camera variety is often used regardless.	1999 / 2016	23 games
Level drain	Player may lose levels or other measure of character progress, temporarily or permanently.	1985 / 2009	18 games
Level timer(Play timer)	Includes a timer for how long you've taken to play through a level. May be shown during play, likely to aid speedrunners than anything actually tangible for the game itself.	2014 / 2015	3 games
Level-based equipment	Items, even trivial ones, can't be used unless the player character has reached a specific character level.	1992 / 2016	77 games
License GNU Affero General Public License	Distributed under the GNU Affero license. Free to use for any purpose, study, improve, & redistribute. Not free to restrict. Network use requires full compliance	2007 / 2016	11 games
License-postfreedom	Released under a Free or Open Source license but later became proprietary. Any current copyright holder can do this to a FSF/OSI licensed code.	2000 / 2010	4 games
License: BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution license)	Distributed under the BSD license.	1991 / 2016	69 games
License: Choice of licenses	Authors of these games have specified multiple licenses that users and other developers may select at their option.		1 game
License: Common Development and Distribution License	Based on the MPL & SPL. Not GPL compatible [b]by design[/b]. Open Source & Free Software.		1 game
License: Contradictory	A subset of [url=/groups/info/license-vague]License: Vague[/url]. License or copying information contains conflicting terms. ie: '$5 Freeware' or 'Public Domain but no commercial use', etc...	1988 / 2021	19 games
License: Creative Commons	A license primarily intended for artistic products such as graphic art, stories, etc.	1997 / 2020	139 games
License: Eclipse Public License	Distributed under the EPL license.		1 game
License: Freely Redistributable Source / Freely Redistributable Software	FRS was before Free Software, GPL & Open Source were systematically legally defined. "S" stood for "software" (binaries only) or "source".		1 game
License: GNU GPL 1 or 2 (GNU General Public License)	Distributed under the GNU GPL license (ver. 1 or 2). Free to use for any purpose, study, improve, and redistribute. Not free to restrict said freedoms	1983 / 2021	1334 games
License: GNU GPL version 3	Distributed under the GNU GPL Version 3 license. Which includes clauses allowing fundamentally different uses & restrictions not existent in GPL 1 & 2	1994 / 2021	207 games
License: Illegal Aspects	Compliance with one or more aspects of the licensing terms of the software are a violation of law either by the copyright holder and/or the end user.	1987 / 2021	2 games
License: Lesser GNU Public License	Licensed under the terms of the LGPL. Intended to apply to code libraries that [b]can[/b] be mixed with code under licenses incompatible with GPL	1987 / 2017	42 games
License: Microsoft Public License	Available under Microsoft's least restrictive license. It is OSI and FSF approved but not compatible with the GNU GPL.		1 game
License: MIT / X11 / PFSL / ISC / Expat	Distributed under the MIT license, X11 license, ISC license, or any other license that meets the standards of a Permissive Free Software License.	1983 / 2016	84 games
License: Mozilla Public License	Distributed under the Mozilla Public License. MPL is based on the modified BSD license & the GNU General Public License, having elements of both.	2006 / 2020	20 games
License: New BSD (3-clause BSD;Simplified BSD License)	The BSD license with the advertising clause. Source & binary are redistributable & derivitivible, but must retain copyright & license & 'no endorsement' by original author	2006 / 2017	12 games
License: Open Software License 3.0	An OSI approved license designed for developers.		1 game
License: PNG/ZLIB	Distributed under the PNG/ZLIB license.	2000 / 2017	25 games
License: Public Domain	Copyright holders have formally and irreparably relinquished all rights to these games. No one owns it, nor can it be owned ever again (in theory).	1979 / 2020	208 games
License: Yawaraka	Simular to the BSD License	2006 / 2007	3 games
Life powered(Cast from hit points)	Some actions, abilities, attacks, etc. are powered by draining away the player character's life (hit points).	1990 / 2017	22 games
Limited capacity	Carry capacity is limited in more ways than the quantity of ammo you can carry.	1981 / 2023	636 games
Limited darkness[partial darkness]	Includes significant quantity of dark locations or periods of darkness, prompting the use of light sources or vision enhancers, but not so much as to be called universally dark.	1983 / 2023	370 games
Live actors	Some or all characters are acted by real people or animals (not just voice acted). May be limited to cutscenes, videos, or similar.	1990 / 2017	187 games
Load recap	During loading a game the current goals or recent events are recapped to remind the player what they were supposed to be doing next.	2007 / 2016	9 games
Loans(Debts)	Player can take out loans and thus going into debt, or possibly even give them out and gaining additional income via debt interest.	1982 / 2016	27 games
Locational health (Multiple health pools)	Each individual part that can be damaged has its own health, lowering the health of individual part may lead to death, the part tearing off, crippling it, or simply reduced performance with it.	1988 / 2018	58 games
Locomotion(Movement)			0 game
Login rewards(Daily rewards)	Player is rewarded for the simple action of logging in or launching the game, usually limited to once per day and sometimes given increasing rewards for consecutive days logged in.	2012 / 2021	5 games
Long range warfare	Warfare at such range that discerning enemies from friendlies and/or neutrals is (extremely) difficult.	2006 / 2013	6 games
Loose Grip	A protagonists hands (prehensile members) can slip or ungrasp completely do to some not readily seen cause such as fatigue and/or a physical force.		1 game
Loot: Random (Random item drops)	NPCs drop semi-random items when they're enough hurt.	1982 / 2021	197 games
Lost equipment	Player loses all or at least the most vital equipment at some point in the game.	1987 / 2020	103 games
Lost powers (Lost levels;Lost abilities)	The protagonist has lost or loses her powers, abilities, skills, spells, etc. intangible that make them presumably great and powerful. A notable part of the story is either spent reclaiming them or coping in their absence.	1991 / 2017	39 games
Lost technology (Forgotten technology)	Involves technology for which the means or knowledge to produce them has been lost with no hope of recovering (e.g. due to a global catastrophe). This technology usually far exceeds the capabilities of tech the people now create.	1993 / 2015	12 games
Low violence mode(No blood mode)	Has an option to reduce the violent content, such as lowering or completely removing the amount of blood shown.		1 game
Loyalty	Simulates loyalty and its effects on the friends and/or followers.		1 game
Loyalty program(Loyalty pricing)	Gives extra benefits or better price for people who own previous titles from the same publisher/developer. Usually in form of a notable discount.		1 game
Lying	Player is given the choice to willingly dispense false information, obscure the truth, or possibly withhold critical information (when such action is harmful to others).	2012 / 2015	4 games
Machine civilization (Robot civilization;Machine culture;Robot culture)[Machine civilisation]	Features a machine civilization of some sort. Not just a mass of automatons, but an actual civilization created and run by more or less sentient artificial beings.	1984 / 2024	60 games
Magazine cover gift	First released (usually for free) as a cover-disc or cover-tape in magazines.	1983 / 1995	528 games
Magic (Mystic powers)	Features anything definitely magical or strange mystic powers.	1974 / 2024	3118 games
Magic fail(Spell fail)[magic failure;spell failure;spell fail chance]	Magic can fail, either by chance or other reasons besides targets resisting or being immune to it.	1989 / 2019	21 games
Magic is science (Scientific magic;Natural magic)	Magic is depicted as scientifically studied and quantified concept with predictable results.	2003 / 2010	6 games
Magic: Innate (Thought)	Magic is invoked by thought or simply by "doing magic" (like breathing or circulating blood). Magic user performs no perceivable actions to do magic.	1995 / 2012	8 games
Magic: Rare(Low magic)[rare magic]	Magic exists but is very uncommon, extremely difficult, relatively limited in power, and/or reserved for a select few. Tolkienian magic for example.	1979 / 2016	28 games
Magic: Sigils(Runic)[runes;symbols;symbolic;sigillary]	Magic is invoked by sigils of power, usually drawn by the magic user when needed or activating previously drawn sigils somehow.	1992 / 2014	30 games
Magic: Somatic	Magic is invoked by visible bodily movement, gestures, dancing, or anything else similar except for spoken words.	1992 / 2017	45 games
Magic: Verbal (Singing;Chanting;Vocalizing)[sung;chanted;vocalized;spoken]	Magic is invoked by speaking, singing, shouting, or otherwise vocalizing gibberish or words of power or similar.	1986 / 2017	32 games
Mail (Postal service;Internal email)	Player has access to mail service, either for sending and receiving textual messages or actual in-game items like in postal service. Commonly exists for communication between players who aren't on-line at the same time.	2004 / 2009	4 games
Mail order	Player can purchase certain items, goods, services, etc. that are delivered to them at a later date, as if by mail order (whether literally or figuratively).	1986 / 2015	3 games
Maintained jump	Player maintains the upward motion of the jump with the jump button held and releases it at any time to start the downward part of the jump. In other words, higher jump with longer press of the jump button, but they start immediately upon pressing it.	2011 / 2016	21 games
Maintenance Tag: Unknown Requirements for OS	Precise operating system, system software, system ROM, BIOS versions, or similar system requirements, are currently unknown & should be added	1986 / 2020	112 games
Malfeatures	Any tags describing a feature that is usually viewed as plain negative or even as bugs (despite lacking the usual requirement of being an error in code).		0 game
Malfunctioning(Duds;Unreliable tools;Jamming)	Tools, vehicles, and whatever else have a possibility to malfunction under certain conditions, though usually only when they become too worn down.	1978 / 2018	55 games
Mana burn (Energy feedback)	An overload or literal burning of energy that harms whoever has it. Commonly has little to no effect on regular people.	1994 / 2021	49 games
Mandatory loss	Player is given a fight they're meant to lose.	1986 / 2019	31 games
Mandatory recipes & blueprints	Player can not craft, cook, build, or such anything they don't have the recipe, blueprint, or similar instructions for even if they know how what is required and how to do it otherwise, such as from previous playthroughs.	2006 / 2015	8 games
Market failure (Financial failure)	Failed to cover its development costs or produce enough profit to even partially fund subsequent projects.	1981 / 2014	18 games
Market preview	Player has access to information about prices, demands, and such for far away markets, allowing easier way to plan what to trade and where.	1999 / 2021	14 games
Martial law	Martial law is in place within the depicted setting.	2011 / 2020	6 games
Mass murder	Depicts or is about mass killing of non-combatants.	1997 / 2015	7 games
Match-locked characters(Match-locked vehicles)	Characters, vehicles, etc. are locked in game matches until the end of the match, unusable in new matches even if player leaves the match early (e.g. leaving a last man standing match early after their own death).	2010 / 2016	6 games
Matchmaking Rating(MMR;Elo rating system)	Uses any kind of matchmaking rating system to calculate relative skill of players, usually to match relatively similarly skilled people against each other in multiplayer. May use variables besides those signifying skill to match people.	1998 / 2016	66 games
Measurement options[Measurement system choices;System of units choices]	Player has choice between measurement systems, such as between metric and imperial.		1 game
Melee impact(Hit impact)	Melee strikes actually impact with opponents, swings stopping (possibly with haptic feedback and/or slight screenshake accompanying it) when they meet hard enough resistance instead of passing through like air.	2012 / 2014	3 games
Meta Consequences	The choices, actions or lack of action [i]made by the player[/i] have non-obvious consequences outside of the game.		1 game
Meta interface	Besides the normal interface you work with to play the game, it also simulates a different interface within itself for the player.	2007 / 2016	7 games
Metahumor(Meta-jokes)	Jokes about jokes.		0 game
Microgrid	Uses grid-size that is significantly smaller than most entities placed on that grid, most notably the player character and other creatures.	1990 / 2015	16 games
Mind upload(Brain upload;Consciousness upload)[Soul upload]	Deals with consciousness of a person copied into fully artificial system and continuing to function relatively in similar manner to the original in that artificial system.	2001 / 2017	26 games
Minigames	Includes minigames on the side or in the main game, but these are only small diversion rather than what the game is about.	1982 / 2023	202 games
Minimum damage(Guaranteed minimum damage)	Harmful effects are guaranteed to do at least some amount of damage, however insignificant, regardless of damage nullifying features on the target of the effect.	1985 / 2010	4 games
Minimum range	Some things need to be at least at a certain minimum distance before they can be used at all, or are incapable of doing anything below that distance. Such as artillery not being able to fire in the first 50 meters around it.	1998 / 2016	21 games
Minion permadeath(Minion permaloss)[minion permanent death;minion permanent loss]	Minions, troops, etc. when they die off, you have no immediate ways to regain someone with similar skillset or traits, possibly even never as they may have been unique individuals.	1994 / 2018	63 games
Minion, unit & structure statistics	Provides statistics on the performance of individual minions, underlings, structures, etc.	2011 / 2014	7 games
Misfortune	Plot involves events spiraling out of control, with any success usually proving to be a failure or simply invoking greater dangers/threats. The protagonists are likely to suffer from despondency eventually.	2010 / 2011	6 games
Misleading choices	Player is given choices that lead to something completely different than they were about.	1997 / 2014	2 games
Misleading title screen	Title screen of the game is misleading somehow, such as having false information or some crucial information is missing.		1 game
Mixed license	Distributed under mixed licensing.		2 games
Mixed reality	Two or more distinct types of reality are mixed together.	1988 / 1991	7 games
Mixed time(Mixed time-keeping)	Mixes two or more methods of time-keeping simultaneously, such as turn-based and real-time.	2014 / 2015	5 games
Modular structures	Structures are modularly built from variety of pieces.	2011 / 2015	2 games
Moon phases	Simulates moon phases to a degree with noticeable effect one way or another.	2006 / 2015	5 games
Moral choices	The player is presented with moral choices which may stray the story or side-story to different directions. A common tool for character building in RPGs.	1997 / 2017	55 games
Morale(Simulated morale)[simmorale]	Simulates the effects of morale on any creatures, especially the player's troops and the main character(s).	1981 / 2018	90 games
More Genders	Game includes genders other than Male and Female.		1 game
Multi-classing	Class-based system where player can select multiple classes, though usually limited to 2 or 3. This often limits the development of the primary class.	1989 / 2022	39 games
Multi-function abilities	Same ability, skill or spell can be used to do large number of different things.		2 games
Multi-purpose resource	Features one ore more resources that are used for 2 completely unrelated purposes, for example bullets being also used as money.	1999 / 2015	9 games
Multi-stage abilities(Combo abilities)	Includes abilities, spells, skills, or other actions that pass through multiple stages, changing what they do with each use. Usually resets after a short while if not triggered again.	2009 / 2014	3 games
Multinational organization	Depicts a multinational organization, group, or similar where people from different nations work together towards common goal(s).	1991 / 2016	36 games
Multiplayer: Defunct(Shut down)	Multiplayer service of the game was shutdown. Unless the game offers direct connection option, this means multiplayer is completely unavailable.		1 game
Multiplayer: Gun Game	A multiplayer mode where scoring (e.g. killing other players) gradualy improves the player's weapon, usually by swapping it to a more powerful one.	2000 / 2015	31 games
Multiplayer: Leagues	Multiplayer is split into leagues. Usually for the purpose of splitting ranked multiplayer community into segments of roughly equal skill with some kind of gating to higher and lower leagues.	2009 / 2015	4 games
Multiplayer: Looking for Group(Looking for more)	Includes an inbuilt feature to look for other people to play with outside of matchmaking.	2009 / 2015	12 games
Multiplayer: NPC allies	One or more of the included multiplayer modes includes NPC allies regardless if bot-replacements for humans are possible. Usually less powerful individuals that provide a constant push and action in the games even if the players themselves do nothing.	2009 / 2015	27 games
Multiplayer: Pre-game commitment	Player has to commit to a significant choice, such as character/class or loadout before entering a game where they can discuss the overall plan with the other allied players.	2011 / 2015	8 games
Multiplayer: Private	Has one or more options of private games, such as password lock, friends only, group/clan only, etc.	2011 / 2019	23 games
Multiplayer: Quick join(Instant action)	Offers quick join or instant action option which finds a game that has free player slots and connects to that without much thought given to it. Usually favoring more populous games but ignores relative skill level of players (no matchmaking).		1 game
Multiple calendars[multicalendar]	Dates, years, etc. are given using multiple calendars instead of just one.		3 games
Multiple currencies	Uses more than one incompatible but perhaps exchangeable currency systems.	1995 / 2015	7 games
Multiple experience pools (Multiple types of experience)	Player can gain more than one type of experience, usually split by activity type.	1985 / 2018	40 games
Multiple narrators[multinarrator]			6 games
Multispecies organization	Depicts a multispecies organization, group, or similar where people from different species work together towards common goal(s).	2007 / 2012	8 games
Mundane dangers	The protagonist is hurt or even killed by very mundane things that shouldn't really hurt anyone. Fatal allergy to something being one of the most realistic instances of this.	2000 / 2014	14 games
Murder penalty	Killing anyone, possibly limited to people, imposes a penalty of some sort.		5 games
Naturalistic (Mundane;No Magic)	Not necessarily realistic. Has nothing overtly fantastic, be it magical, paranormal, psychic, mystic, super powers, technomagic, nor magical technology.	1970 / 2023	4136 games
Nature simulation			0 game
Naval warfare	Player commands some military naval force(s).	1974 / 2020	174 games
Necessary evil (Lesser evil)	Plot involves someone notable performing "evil" deeds because of necessity for them to achieve certain "good" goals.	2003 / 2016	8 games
Negative wealth(Negative capital)	Player can have negative wealth where their usable wealth goes below zero.		4 games
No agenda(No motives)	The reason why the protagonist is doing what they're doing is not revealed for a good portion of the game if at all.	2011 / 2018	22 games
No Amazon Standard Identification Number (NO ASIN)	Not yet listed (or has been deleted) from amazon.com. This is a maintenance tag.	1981 / 2012	41 games
No boss arenas	Gameplay is not limited to carefully constrained area during boss fights, letting player to go anywhere they wish, possibly as a result allowing fleeing a boss battle without failing it.	2011 / 2015	2 games
No cooldowns	There are no cooldowns on abilities or items to be used again, allowing them to be used extremely rapidly regardless of what they do.		1 game
No deck building	Despite being a collectible card game or card battle game, player can not build custom decks.	2009 / 2012	10 games
No fantastic recovery	Averts a common trope in popular fiction where recovery from disfiguring wounds, forced polymorph, or such, does not produce perfect or near perfect recovery, leaving the person at least partially and quite noticeably disfigured.	2009 / 2012	2 games
No generic enemies	Every enemy you encounter is unique, with possible exception with animals and similar but anything that could be a person is unique.	2014 / 2015	6 games
No HP system(No health point system)[no hit point system]		2012 / 2014	2 games
No pause menu(No in-game menu pause)	Opening the base in-game menu (usually opened with start button, esc key, etc.) does not pause the game.		1 game
No platform license	Published without license on a platform that normally requires such. May have as such involved reverse engineering the platform itself.	1990 / 1991	4 games
No Resale	The company providing the game has attempted to prevent subsequent transfer of ownership.	1993 / 2015	2 games
No shop restocking	Shops and other sources from which you can buy things never restock, eventually indefinitely running out of things to sell.	2006 / 2014	5 games
No squad health	Squads or similar groups of units don't have shared or generic health that covers all members of the squad but instead tracks each individual squad member individually. Only if this is unusual (e.g. most strategy games).		1 game
No stray fire(No stray bullets)	It is impossible to cause stray fire (as in, hit something other than the one targeted), excluding anything that is defined as affecting an area, capable of overpenetration, or similar.	2009 / 2015	12 games
No voice-overs	There are no voice overs despite being recent enough that such are commonplace and made by developer/publisher who should've been able to fund such part of development.		0 game
No-one left behind[none left behind]	Plays with the concept of leaving no-one behind, endangering oneself and possibly others just for the sake of not leaving anyone. Often foolhardy and/or excessively heroic.	1993 / 2013	16 games
Noise indicator	Includes an indicator for how much noise you're making, possibly complemented with inclusion of how much your environment is making noise.	1999 / 2017	20 games
Non-choices(False choices)	Player is given options to choose from but same thing happens regardless of what the choice was, even when this is a series of choices.	2001 / 2016	13 games
Non-Euclidean geometry		2011 / 2013	4 games
Non-standard colors[non-standard colours]	Uses non-standard coloring schemes for objects and elements.	1994 / 2006	6 games
Non-working age[retirement;children]	Characters exist sapping resources but being in non-working age where they either are too young or too old to actually work, creating a buffer of needs with no (immediate) benefits in return.	2009 / 2016	5 games
Noodle incident	References one or more significant events, possibly multiple times, but never actually shows or explains what they were.	2004 / 2013	3 games
NPC ammo	NPCs have limited ammo supplies like player instead of usual unlimited.	1998 / 2014	5 games
NPC anxiety (NPC fear)	Simulates anxiety and fear on NPCs to some degree.	1994 / 2013	27 games
NPC asphyxiation(Oxygen;Drowning)	NCPs have issues with asphyxiation in certain situations, such as drowning, being exposed to vacuum, oxygen supplanting gases, fire depleting oxygen, etc.	2006 / 2014	13 games
NPC body dragging	NPCs purposefully relocate unconscious or dead characters.	1997 / 2015	8 games
NPC disarming	NPCs can somehow disarm the protagonist and others.	2010 / 2014	7 games
NPC environmental vulnerability	NPCs are vulnerable to environmental hazards, such as traps, open fires, and such the same as players are.	1998 / 2018	12 games
NPC fleeing(Enemy fleeing)	Under certain circumstances some or all enemy NPCs will try to flee from the player character. Usually not including wild animals or similar that can be expected to do so regardless of anything, especially not if this is limited to them.	1995 / 2021	25 games
NPC last known position behavior(NPC last seen position behavior)[last known location]	NPCs behavior is partially dictated by last known positions of certain things, such as where they last saw the protagonist or an enemy. Possibly firing blindly into brush with presumed enemy is or going to scout it out long after the enemy has departed.	2009 / 2017	29 games
NPC map crossing(NPC level crossing)	Some or all NPCs (can) cross over area load boundaries (screens, maps, levels, sectors, or whatever the game partitions the game world with), not being stuck in some area just because it requires level load to go over there.	2016 / 2017	2 games
NPC mercy	NPCs can show mercy, such as stopping attacking you if you're clearly losing & are willing to acquiesce to conditions (ie: leave & never return).		1 game
NPC reinforcements	NPCs can call in reinforcements from outside of the play area or outside of the immediate vicinity.		1 game
NPC reloading	NPCs need to reload their weapons as much as the player does, giving somewhat predictable pauses in their firing other than random stops as well as visible/audible feedback of it.	2012 / 2015	5 games
NPC schedules	NPCs follow certain schedules, regardless if they're static or dynamic, such as going to sleep at night, eating dinner, working for most of the day, spending free time during evening, etc.	1982 / 2018	66 games
NPC stunning	NPCs can stun the player character for any amount of time.	1998 / 2018	19 games
NPC suppressive fire	NPCs employ suppressive fire tactics, firing in an area (even if they know they're guaranteed to not hit anyone) where they know or suspect enemies to be in to deny them chance to relocate or return fire.	2009 / 2014	5 games
NPC UI interaction[NPC user interface interaction;NPC 4th wall interaction]	Certain NPCs interact with player's user interface, such as messing up with player's user interface, using said interface, or interfering with its use.	2015 / 2017	5 games
NPC world change awareness	NPCs are aware of something changing in the world, for example they will notice a door is closed when it wasn't earlier, an item is somewhere where it wasn't before, etc. Specifically when they weren't observing the change.	2014 / 2015	9 games
Object Components	Objects/Weapons have multiple components that can be substituted and may or may not have other uses.		1 game
Object imprinting (Psychic imprinting;Empathic imprinting)	Objects, mainly tools, gain traits of the person using them or the place they're stored in.		0 game
Objective indicator (Task indicator)	Shows where the current objective is located in one way or another.	1990 / 2023	329 games
Odd nature	Nature and the laws of nature behave strangely in comparison to reality, but the depicted natives see nothing strange about it.		3 games
Offscene death	Going off scene in any direction (falling down, going off the sides, jumping at the top, etc.) causes death or other loss condition.	1991 / 2013	4 games
Old faith(Old religion;Old gods)[Old deities]	Deals with an older faith, its beliefs, or its gods. Usually something that was supplanted by the depicted current major religion some time ago.	1998 / 2020	13 games
Old skool surveillance(Visibly flawed surveillance)	Surveillance system that clearly leaves holes in what they're surveying. Often with security cameras that show their view cones and move about in predictable patterns that leave holes through which the player can slip by.	1999 / 2016	42 games
On hold	Any project that has entered the vague state of being "on hold". Often result of financial problems with developer or publisher/producer as resources are allocated elsewhere until they get enough capital to continue the projects.	1987 / 2015	16 games
Online pass	Required the use of an online pass. Such as separately purchased online subscription, a serial key delivered along with the retail game, or some other method that limits the availability of online gaming to new purchases of the game.	2011 / 2012	4 games
Open beta	Employed an open beta phase at some point, allowing anyone to play the unfinished game for free for a time before release. Usually in hopes of stomping out all remaining technical issues but possibly also for marketing.	2001 / 2018	33 games
Optional running commentary	Supplemental commentary material by the creators that plays or can be read at various locations explaining how or why they did things as they are.	2001 / 2022	41 games
Optional tasks(Side quests;Optional objectives;Secondary objectives)	Player has optional tasks they may perform for one reason or another.	1982 / 2023	402 games
Orbital drops	Troops, vehicles, supplies, etc. are dropped from orbit to surface as-is without aid of drop pods or drop ships.	2009 / 2011	6 games
Out-of-place characters	Characters that appear very out of place, such as the mailman of a nearby village delivering mail in some buried city you just unearthed.	2005 / 2016	13 games
Out-of-turn actions (Reactions)[Reaction fire]	Characters can perform certain actions outside of their own turn.	1992 / 2016	49 games
Over-exposition	Explains everything in almost technical detail, especially if this is by characters who shouldn't know or care about such minute details for everything, not to mention not care to explain it all to someone asking about it all.	1994 / 2015	5 games
Overburdening[overloading]	Character, vehicle, etc. load weight is somehow part of gameplay besides as a limit for how much you can carry. The effects of overburdening can start to happen as early as at 20% of total capacity or only after going over 100%.	1995 / 2020	46 games
Overdraw discard	Drawing more than certain number of cards or such causes the new ones to be discarded.	2014 / 2015	4 games
Overkill	Defeating opponents can be overdone and is rewarded with some more spectacular death/defeat sequence than normal. Often results only in gibbing of the subjects, or turning them into explosions of gore, even when such makes no sense.	1994 / 2020	95 games
Overloading[overburdening]	Character, vehicle, etc. maximum load weight, volume, or such can be exceeded. Usually leaves the thing immobile, but still gives the option, possibly to allow using super-heavy equipment on the spot or make inventory management easier.	1995 / 2015	10 games
Overpenetration (Penetrating projectiles;Piercing projectiles)	Certain projectiles can pass through multiple targets.	1990 / 2017	72 games
Overtime(Extra time)	A time extension to prevent a tie/draw from happening or to let some currently contested thing get settled.	2007 / 2015	10 games
Pain (Simulated pain)	Getting hit, falling significant heights, being electrocuted, etc. cause the subjected character (especially in case of the protagonist) to reel in pain or otherwise temporarily becoming incapacitated.	1994 / 2021	54 games
Panspermia	A theory involving the transportation of life from planet to planet.		1 game
Paper doll(Visible equipment)	Uses paper doll like inventory and equipment system with the chosen equipment reflected in-game outside of the paper doll manager.	1995 / 2021	51 games
Passage on demand[Scenery on demand;Scenery as you go]	A passage, area, or similar forms around you as needed (and often disappearing as you move away from it). Commonly a passage over a chasm.	1990 / 2016	17 games
Past characters(Previous characters;Old characters)[meet old characters;meet previous characters]	Player gets to meet old player characters, their graves, or some other remains of them.	1985 / 2014	10 games
Past creations(Previous creations;Old creations)	Player can find their old creations, their remains or ruins, or some derivatives of them [i]in new playthroughs[/i].		0 game
Patents	Any concepts that are patented somewhere in the world. Unlike other concepts these are worth having even if just one game would be in it.	1997 / 2008	0 game
Pawn	The protagonist is used or otherwise manoeuvred without their (initial) knowledge towards goals they may not agree with.	1999 / 2015	39 games
Pay-once MMO[Buy to play]	MMOs for which you only pay once after which it's playable like any other game with no need to pay subscription if one even exists. Pay-once bit does not extend to expansions or possible microtransactions.	2005 / 2019	15 games
Penetrating explosions(Passthrough explosions)	Explosions pass through matter that is not destroyed or moved by them, causing harm to things that should've been safe. In other words, explosions ignore indestructible level geometry and other things that should shield from them.	1997 / 2014	7 games
People resources(People harvesting;Organ harvesting)[Human resources;Human harvesting]	People (humans or whatever constitutes the setting's sentients or equivalent) are harvested in their entirety or some part of them, and not for their ability to do work as themselves.	1992 / 2020	53 games
Per-character relations	Relations are tracked per-character in addition to or instead of overall or per-faction.	1975 / 2017	50 games
Percentage damage(%health damage)	Some attacks or sources of damage cause it as percentage of the target's current or maximum health.	2009 / 2015	7 games
Periodic autosaves (Timed autosaves)	Game progress is periodically (usually every 5 to 15 minutes) saved without any action from the player needed.	1996 / 2019	84 games
Periodic calamities(Periodic natural disasters)	Certain kind of calamities, such as natural disasters, periodically threaten the player on fairly regular basis, especially if these are as predictably common as night and day cycle.	2008 / 2017	6 games
Periodic dangers(Circadian dangers;Daily dangers)	Includes dangers (such as enemies) that are only present during a certain period of a day, such as the night.	1998 / 2023	47 games
Permanent level drain	Level drain when it occurs is permanent and does not restore with time or have any simple restoration mechanics.	1985 / 2009	18 games
Permeable environmental materials(Porous environmental materials)	Some environmental materials are permeable, letting liquid and/or gas pass through them while blocking passage otherwise.		3 games
Persistent minions (Persistent units)[permanent minions;permanent units]	Minions or similar stick around with the player across missions, maps, etc. However, this does not mean they can not be lost. Should only be used when unusual, such as in strategy games.	1994 / 2016	98 games
Personal quest	The protagonist is trying to achieve something they themself decided to do for themself.	1992 / 2015	55 games
Perspective-based reality	Reality changes according to how (from what direction, or even possibly through what) or what specifically you look at.	2007 / 2014	9 games
Phase transitions	Simulates matter phase (solid, liquid, gas, and plasma) transitions to some degree.	2009 / 2019	14 games
Photo Mode	The ability to pause the game and take screenshots moving the camera around and eventually altering other elements.	2005 / 2020	76 games
Physical magic(Contact magic)	Features physical magic, where magic is performed purely by touching things and/or enhancing ones own body or traits.	2007 / 2020	2 games
Picture-in-picture(PiP)		1990 / 2017	20 games
Place swap(Position swap)[swap places;swap positions]	Player can swap positions with willing or neutral characters, possibly even with hostile ones.	1994 / 2013	8 games
Planetary destruction	Whole planets, moons or other immense astral bodies can be destroyed.	1988 / 2015	17 games
Platform best seller	According to VGChartz Pack-in games should not be considered	1982 / 2011	17 games
Platform reference(Platform allusion)	One or more of the game's titles (redundantly) references, directly or indirectly, the platform they're for. Not including fan titles.	1978 / 2017	550 games
Platinum range (Essentials range)	PlayStation (from PS1 to PS4, including handhelds) budget range in the PAL regions that attained 400,000 worldwide in Europe on the first six months. Later renamed to "Essentials" for PSP in 2010 and PlayStation 3 in 2012.	1994 / 2011	205 games
Player comparison	Offers comparison of how the player performed in comparison to other players. Possibly plain statistics or what choices they made across gameplay.	2012 / 2015	10 games
Player profiling	Collects information about the player - usually anything related to playing habits, success, preferences, and such - and sends it to the developer/publisher. Commonly anonymous.		1 game
Player taunting	Player specifically is taunted, mocked, ridiculed, etc.	1983 / 2022	11 games
Point of no return	Player is told at one or more points that proceeding will prevent them from returning, possibly causing active quests to be cancelled/abandoned, etc. Usually when player is about to start game ending mission or cause large status change to the game world.	2012 / 2017	17 games
Pollution	Player has to deal with pollution outside of plain hygiene and waste management.	1973 / 2016	11 games
Poor item grip	Characters (especially player characters) can lose either randomly or due to certain circumstances grip on items they're holding in their hands. Not cases of intentionally causing loss of grip (e.g. disarming).	2013 / 2016	9 games
Post-credits scene[Post-end credits scene]		1993 / 2020	29 games
Post-release name change(Post-release rename)	At some point [i]after[/i] initial publishing, these games officially had their names changed without it being a separate release in different territory. Usually online-only releases.	1999 / 2012	11 games
Post-release states			0 game
Power flicker	Insufficient energy output/production causes devices, buildings, and others to flicker back and forth between operational and inoperative state.	2007 / 2010	4 games
Power negation (Power dampening;Power nullification;Silencing)	Player character can somehow negate powers (such as magic) of others, or be subjected to such themselves.	2003 / 2018	12 games
Pre-combat	Player has action choices before actual combat begins that affect it in some significant manner, either before combat mode starts or as part of setup phase for combat mode (the latter only when this includes something that can't be done otherwise mid-comb		7 games
Pre-order bonus	Pre-ordering the game gives the player free day 1 DLC content or other in-game goodies (such as things normally acquired via microtransactions).	2013 / 2016	11 games
Pre-release states			0 game
Pregnancy	Deals with pregnancy in some manner.	2017 / 2020	2 games
Prehensile hair		1992 / 2018	59 games
Premature task completion(Premature quest completion)	Player can complete quests or other such tasks before actually acquiring said tasks.	1998 / 2017	17 games
Price info (Value info)	Just by looking at things you get info on their approximate value, average price, last known price, or similar without having to remember it yourself or visit a shop to see what they really offer for it.	2005 / 2014	23 games
Proprietary license	Distributed under a license that witholds and/or restricts source code & rights granted by law, usually for commercial purposes & is almost always unique per game	1970 / 2024	13324 games
Protagonist does everything	For some obscure reason, the protagonist is called out to do every single thing, even though most of it falls out of their job description, area of expertise, or even common sense. Especially if actual specialists are easily reachable in the situations.	1984 / 2010	8 games
Pseudo-rape(Agonophilia)	Either acted out rape or simply the non-con partner "warming up to the idea" after a while. Mostly seen in erotic fiction as a type of rape where the non-con partner actually likes it (possibly after the fact) and wants to be the victim again.		1 game
Pseudo-real	Makes false claims on the events happening being real or even being happening Right Now.	1999 / 2014	4 games
Psychological Theory	Above average knowledge of psychology and/or psychological theory plays an important role in gameplay.		1 game
Puppet animation(Modular animation)	Individual pieces (pieces of clothing, possibly smaller pieces of the body, whatever they hold, etc. not just limbs) of characters are animated as separate entities.	2004 / 2017	37 games
Pyrokinesis (Fire manipulation;Fire magic)	Player character can control and/or generate fire to some degree, regardless of how or why.	1994 / 2021	71 games
Pyrrhic victory	As part of the major events in the overall game (story), there's a victory achieved at such loss the winners might as well count it as a loss.	1999 / 2008	16 games
Quick turn(180° turn)	Includes a shortcut to quickly do a 180 degree turn.	2013 / 2015	3 games
Race choice (Ethnic group choice)	Player can choose the race of the main character.	1981 / 2015	31 games
Radiation (Radioactivity)	Player has to deal with radioactivity and radiation poisoning.	1977 / 2018	49 games
Radio tap	For some obscure reason, the player can hear the enemy's radio chatter.	1998 / 2013	26 games
Rage meter(Bloodlust;Focus;Adrenaline)	Player gains "rage" or some other vague power from beating up their opponents or doing something else significant, which in turn (briefly) unlocks more powerful moves, additional bonuses or enables other actions/features such as activation of super mode.	2002 / 2018	144 games
Rampant creation	Something artificial escapes quarantine, gets broken and functions inappropriately, or does their job too well.		2 games
Random gender	Player character is assigned gender randomly.	2012 / 2013	2 games
Random NPC health	NPC health is randomly chosen whenever they're generated/spawned rather than having a static one.		1 game
Random protagonist	The protagonist is either randomly chosen from a set of them or randomly generated with little to no player control.	2012 / 2018	7 games
Random start gear	Starting equipment is randomized.	2012 / 2018	6 games
Random starting equipment(Random starting gear)	The equipment player starts with is randomized.	2012 / 2016	9 games
Randomized keycodes(Randomized passcodes)	Keycodes or such are randomized between playthroughs, forcing players to actually find or figure them out instead of relying on walkthroughs or memory of previous playthrough and skipping content.	2015 / 2016	2 games
Ranked multiplayer(Multiplayer: Ranked)		2009 / 2017	25 games
Rare concepts	Any tags that describe concepts that are rarely or barely ever seen, and not just because of tagging not being thorough.	2000 / 2003	0 game
Re-animated dead(Revived dead)	Any kind of re-animated dead and not just supernatural undead. Including resurrected and similar entities.		0 game
Reactive narrator	The narrator reacts to various things the player does or sees instead of only relaying pre-scripted exposition.	2011 / 2016	5 games
Real clock	Shows actual time of day for the player instead of in-game time of day (which may actually be the same).	2010 / 2016	7 games
Recoil	Simulates recoil to some degree, throwing aim off target rather than usual bullet dispersion increasing for a moment or simply nothing at all.	1997 / 2017	59 games
Recrafting (Reforging;Recooking;Rebaking)[cyclic crafting]	Some crafted or otherwise player created items can be used as "ingredients" for other things they may craft.		1 game
Rectangular grid (Square grid;rectgrid)	Uses an ordinary grid of 4 sided convex shapes (rectangles, squares, etc.).	1973 / 2023	2747 games
Refillable liquid containers	Liquid containers can be refilled instead of disappearing into the ether completely upon use.	2002 / 2018	13 games
Reflected deeds[Wendigos]	The actions one takes are reflected upon their physical appearance, such as making evildoers look monstrous to reflect their inner monstrosity.	2003 / 2016	18 games
Region locked	Can only be played on a console with specific region code, an OS installation with specific region selected, or activated online while connected from specific kind of IP address.	2007 / 2013	6 games
Reincarnation(transmigrationofthesoul;metempsychosis;rebirth)	The soul and/or spirit lives again in a newborn body after the death of its old one.	2001 / 2015	4 games
Reload: Conditional	Reloading can only be performed when certain conditions are met.	1978 / 2016	3 games
Reload: Passive	Reloading happens even when the thing isn't held out, continuing as the player swaps to other weapons or tools.	2012 / 2014	4 games
Reload: Phased(Pauseable)	Reload works in phases or is pauseable. In both cases reloading can be interrupted but is not reset/cancelled entirely but rather continues either exactly or nearly where you left off.	1984 / 2012	2 games
Rental service	Certain services, people, tools, or such can be rented for a limited time.	2008 / 2015	7 games
Repair limit	Things with durability can only be repaired a limited number of times.		3 games
Reputation			0 game
Resource industry	Deals with any industry producing basic resources, such as food, minerals, oil, and so forth.	1979 / 2015	34 games
Resource respawning	Resources one might forage, mine, cut down, etc. respawn occasionally even if it makes no sense.	2016 / 2018	2 games
Resting reset(Reset on rest)	Resting or similar activity resets the world fully or partially.	2009 / 2019	32 games
Result estimation[estimated result]	Shows estimated result of actions before you take them.	2006 / 2015	4 games
Revisited locales	Certain locations are revisited for some reason.	1990 / 2015	8 games
Rise to power (Rise to rulership;Rise to supremacy)	Deals with the protagonist's, a group's they work for, or some secondary character's (that the protagonist works with) ascension to power.	2010 / 2015	6 games
Rock-Paper-Scissors Mechanics	Gameplay mechanics includes some RPS-like component, which is at its core: X counters Y, Y counters Z, and Z counters X.	1996 / 2019	44 games
Roller coaster battle(Train battle;Minecart battle;Tram battle)	A high-speed battle scene usually in open train, tram, or minecart where player is conveyed through route often similar to roller coaster ride as they fight off attackers.		1 game
Rotting (Spoiling food)	Organic substances, especially those used for food, eventually rot and spoil.	1985 / 2018	53 games
Route indicator (Route calculation)	Player is given a full or almost full route to follow rather than some hotspots or the final destination alone, similar to GPS route calculation.	2009 / 2020	33 games
Rumors	Player can hear a variety of rumors. Regardless if any of them are even remotely true.	1998 / 2016	6 games
Russian Roulette	Traditionally played with a revolver pistol. This tag refers to principle of players taking turns choosing actions that risk elimination from a game or round by death of the player.	1978 / 2014	5 games
S-rank[S rank;SSS-rank;SSS rank]	Uses ranking system that goes from (usually) F to A and then to S, possibly even to SSS beyond that.	2001 / 2018	11 games
Safe powers (Safe magic)	Magic and such powers are perfectly safe for the user (and possibly allies) despite appearing extremely dangerous. Such as being able to toss explosive fireballs, rain acid, and summon tornadoes at their own feet without being affected by them themselves.	2001 / 2016	36 games
Safe zone (Safe haven;Weapons free zone)	Includes one or more areas where the player character can not attack or be attacked by anyone. Enforced either by changed game mechanics or the player character simply refuses to attack.	1982 / 2021	92 games
Sand sea(Sand is water)	Sand behaves like water when convenient, such as animals/monsters swimming around in it or people sailing on the sand with ships.	1993 / 2019	11 games
Sanitation			0 game
Satakore (サタコレ)	Satakore means "Saturn collection". Satakore games are japanese Saturn games re-released and sold for ¥2,800.	1994 / 1998	67 games
Save anywhere (Location free saves;Unbound saves)	Allows saving the game progress at any point regardless of location with few if any limitations (such as no saving during combat).	1981 / 2020	527 games
Save on exit (Quit save)	Saves or offers to save game progress when player exits the game.	1983 / 2021	149 games
Save points	Allows saving manually at specific locations, such as certain safe rooms or on level change.	1982 / 2021	374 games
Scatter indicator (Dispersion indicator)	Shows the possible area or locations in which something will land, such as the possible area where a thrown grenade would fall. Visualizes an area where something will land rather than its exact position.	2006 / 2016	7 games
Scenic	The scenery has received extreme attention to detail and depth, and player has numerous chances to admire it.	1989 / 2019	83 games
Scientific notation	Uses scientific notation to express very large or small numbers instead of plain numbers.	2014 / 2015	2 games
Score loss	Some things can cause player to lose score (negative score change) rather than simply not gain more of it.	1994 / 2018	12 games
Scrapbook Visuals (Cutouts; Cutout Graphics)	Visuals include photographs, pieces of photographs, shapes cut from a flat objects, and/or items that appear to have been flattened.	2007 / 2017	3 games
Screen noise(Analog video noise;Video white noise)	Simulates analog video noise, usually seen as random interference all over the screen that at extreme end is just rapidly changing black and white dots ("snow") all over the screen.		1 game
Second wind	Characters may, after exerting themselves for a while, suddenly become re-invigorated, regaining all or part of their health, energy, stamina, or such (or all of them).	2009 / 2019	15 games
Secondary classes(Trade classes)	Includes secondary classes that are practicable outside of primary classes and do not count for multiclassing or sub-classing with primary classes, usually exist in form of crafting/exploration/solo-oriented classes in MMOs.	2009 / 2014	2 games
Secondary conflict	A conflict that occurs at around the same time as the one you're dealing with. The secondary one may be completely unrelated to you, your goals, or such, but it significantly affects how you can go about doing your thing.	1992 / 2015	17 games
Segmented health	Player character's health is divided into segments.	2005 / 2014	14 games
Self-correcting reality	Reality, time, etc. doesn't like being tampered with and thus tries to correct itself or sends its minions to do this if it can't do it on its own.	2001 / 2016	9 games
Semi-automatic map	Map is automatically filled in but only when player prompts it, such as activating a sonar mapping tool, entering a cartography mode where the character fills in a handdrawn map, or some other thing.	1991 / 2012	7 games
Seniority choice(Age choice;Maturity choice)	Player has choice of how old the character is, affecting story or gameplay.	2014 / 2016	4 games
Series change	Non-spin-off games that change the direction of a series.	1996 / 2011	12 games
Series name drop (Series name change)	Bears no outward connection to the series they belong to because the series name was changed or removed altogether.	1995 / 2014	14 games
Settlement minigame	Settlement, village, or such management as a minigame, side activity, or such without being a proper city-building or colony sim hybrid.	2002 / 2016	5 games
Shadowless	Does not employ any form of shadow projection even though such should be visible.		1 game
Shared vision	Characters share vision, so if one sees an enemy (or some other thing of interest), the others see them too, giving vision beyond obstacles.	2012 / 2014	4 games
Shield regeneration (Energy shield regeneration)	Energy shields automatically restore themselves to full power over time.	1991 / 2019	60 games
Shock material	Any tags describing content that is likely included only for the shock value attached to it.		0 game
Shop restocking	Shops and other sources from which you buy things restock their supplies occasionally. Requires they can run out of items for a while but not indefinitely (except in case of unique items).	1997 / 2014	2 games
Shortcut opening	A notable component of the exploration is opening or otherwise enabling shortcuts back to where you were were before, easing traversal back and forth the new areas you are exploring and the old ones and not just for single use kind.	2009 / 2018	21 games
Shrapnel	The shockwave of explosions is not the only danger they pose.	1998 / 2018	7 games
Shrinking protagonist	The main character decreases in size, to something smaller than their normal (that is, not including shrinking back to their normal size after being enlarged).	1982 / 2018	39 games
Sidegrades	The alternative to upgrades, where equipment are not direct upgrades to others but instead have strengths and weaknesses compared to each other, leading to equipment choice to be either based on what you're dealing with and/or your playstyle.	2013 / 2014	3 games
Simon Says	Much of the story or gameplay revolves around doing exactly what you're told, or somehow interacting with that expectation.	1977 / 2017	18 games
Simulated insanity	Simulates insanity in one form or another.	2002 / 2016	31 games
Simulated law	Any tags referring to simulation of law or similar concepts.		0 game
Sir Typhil's Tale	Takes place in the shared universe of Sir Typhil's Tale created by Stand Off Software		6 games
Skill-based equipment	Items, even trivial ones, can't be used unless you meet certain basic and occasionally somewhat arbitrary skill limitations (e.g. need 15 points in electronics skill to use voltage meter).	1999 / 2016	22 games
Slippery surfaces (Slick surfaces)[Ice;Grease;Icy surfaces;Greasy surfaces;Oily surfaces]	Player encounters and must deal with slippery surfaces of any kind (anything that is notably lacking in friction).	1987 / 2020	45 games
Slow explosions(Slow-motion explosions)	Explosions take relatively long time to go through compared to real explosions which are near instantaneous. Likely depicted as slowly expanding fireball.	1997 / 2000	3 games
Social decline (Moral decline;Social degeneration)	Deals with social/moral decline in some manner, usually as a response to some catastrophe.	2012 / 2017	8 games
Soft ability cap	Abilities, skills, spels, etc. have a soft cap on their ranks which can be circumvented in some manner, such as gaining bonuses to ranks from external sources.	2015 / 2016	4 games
Sound cues(Auditory cues)	Sound is used as the [u]only[/u] method for finding or realizing something is there, or as the only cue for something for the player to react or act to. Excluding music and sound oriented games where this is expected to be the norm.	1977 / 2016	15 games
Space friction	Spacecraft are required to be in constant acceleration to maintain speed.	1987 / 2017	18 games
Space warfare		1982 / 2016	12 games
Sparse music	Music is played only in some rare circumstances, otherwise staying silent for most of the game.	2011 / 2018	5 games
Spatial logic (Spatial puzzle)	Requires spatial-temporal reasoning. Visual, mental, actual manipulation of shapes/objects that have at least rudimentary realistic spacial relations.	1975 / 2022	460 games
Spawn protection	Employs some form of protection to prevent the player character dying soon after spawning in, such as the spawn happening only in safezones where enemies can't enter nor attack, or there's a brief invulnerability timer after spawning.	2007 / 2015	8 games
Specicide (Xenocide)	Player can somehow cause the extinction of a whole species.	1985 / 2016	8 games
Species choice	Player can choose the species of the main character.	1983 / 2019	165 games
Species penalty(Race penalty;Species skill restrictions;Species class restrictions)	Certain species, sub-races, or such can't ever become as proficient in some skill (or class) as another, no matter what. Or gets other significant penalties that no other get (to such degree).	1998 / 2021	20 games
Species uplift[uplifted species]	The story somehow deals with species uplift, either the process, as a goal or past occurrence of such.	1992 / 2024	41 games
Species-restricted tasks(Race-restricted tasks)[Species-restricted quests;Species-restricted missions]	Includes tasks, quests, missions or such that are only available to a subset of species/races or even just one.		1 game
Speech: Artistic language	The characters speak some constructed language made purely for its artistic value (to sound cool).		1 game
Speech: Inuit(Greenlandic;Inuinnaqtun;Inuktitut;Inupiatun;Inupiat;Inuvialuktun)	Despite the release locale and set language, some or all of the voice overs are in some Inuit tongue.	2014 / 2016	5 games
Speed limits	Player must observe appropriate speed limits when driving or otherwise moving around in public locations.	1999 / 2011	6 games
Speed of sound	Simulates speed of sound, thus you can see lightning striking, explosions, people lifting their hands to their mouth to shout, gunshots and their effects in distance long before you actually hear them.		1 game
Spell chance	Spells, abilities, etc. have a chance to not trigger at all when used.	2014 / 2015	2 games
Spheroid world	Instead of regular flat surface of some unspecified size, the world is depicted as a sphere-like mass in-game.	1991 / 2017	41 games
Split currency	Wealth is split into several types of cash of differing value.	1994 / 2016	13 games
Spoiler tags[includes spoiler tags]	Includes non-obvious spoiler tags – as in, things that normally aren't spoilers but are in the context of the game – and/or an article describing them.	1983 / 2017	38 games
Spreading vegetation[plant reproduction]	Plants, fungi, etc. reproduce and spread where suitable conditions are present.	2005 / 2023	23 games
Staining (Dirtying)	Characters get stained by splattering blood, pillowing dust, or just water clings to them and their clothing.	2003 / 2019	22 games
Stamina (Endurance)	Simulates character's ability to continuously perform strenuous physical activity such as running, carrying heavy objects and so on, draining the character's stamina and eventually preventing farther work-out before resting.	1993 / 2023	226 games
Standby power(Phantom load)	Simulates standby power, where devices constantly drain (small amount of) power even when not in use while connected to an electric network or power supply such as a battery.	2015 / 2016	4 games
Status effects		1987 / 2023	159 games
Status effects: Stacking	Some or all status effects stack on their intensity/effect as opposed to only one instance of the status effect being allowed. Specifically status effects stacking with themselves, not with other unrelated status effects.	2012 / 2014	2 games
Steam Trading	Supports Steam Trading which allows players to trade in-game items and such between players ignoring game boundaries in terms of what is tradeable for what (though usability is still likely restricted to the particular games).	2007 / 2013	10 games
Sticky surfaces	Player encounters and must deal with sticky surfaces of any kind.		3 games
Stock art	Uses stock visual art of one type or another, usually seen with smaller developers using assets provided by their game making tool or acquired from other free or stock sources.	2009 / 2014	3 games
Stock sounds (Stock sound effects)	Employs stock sounds, possibly remastered to fit better into the game experience.	1995 / 2011	6 games
Stop-motion animation	Uses digitized stop-motion images.	1995 / 2013	19 games
Store exclusive	Exclusive to specific store on a platform.		1 game
Stormtrooper effect	Characters, beings, or such claimed or otherwise supposed to be extremely skilled at something show excessive incompetence when needing to use it against the protagonist.	1991 / 2008	9 games
Story: Dispersed	Story/plot is delivered via scattered pieces, usually diaries, newspaper cutouts, reports, recordings, and other such things. Most of which require player to examine them to get any of it.	1999 / 2014	4 games
Stray fire(Stray bullets)	Missed shots can actually hit something.	1994 / 2015	23 games
Structure relocation (Building relocation)	Most or even all structures can be relocated somehow.	1998 / 2015	14 games
Structure synergy	Placing certain types of structures near each other or connecting them somehow provides additional benefits, other than building X provides increased efficiency to connected/nearby buildings. Includes orchards, animal dwellings, and others as well.	2013 / 2017	2 games
Stumbling (Tripping)	Player character and others can stumble, trip over, or such from poor maneuvering.	2005 / 2020	24 games
Stupid evil	Evil for sake of evil, especially when that evil is actually more detrimental to the evil person, such as killing people who are helping them or required for certain things.	1998 / 2016	26 games
Style bonus	Player gains bonuses (to score, cash, experience, whatever) for doing things stylishly or otherwise in more interesting ways.	2011 / 2018	18 games
Subspecies choice(Race choice)	Player has choice of subspecies (non-ethnic race).		3 games
Succession	Deals with succession, passing the mantle of something on to next person. Especially if this happens repeatedly for the same thing.	2012 / 2019	2 games
Sudden sentience (Sudden self-awareness;Unexpected sentience)	Something that shouldn't have sentience (self-aware and dictating its own actions) suddenly finds itself to have that.	1994 / 2017	8 games
Super Science	A variation of science fiction or even weird science where extremely high tech equipment and/or understanding of them is limited to very few people, even one person. The technology is usually not distributed/sold to public for some unexplained reason.	1992 / 2014	18 games
Superhuman powers (Superhuman abilities)	This is for tags describing powers, abilities, or technology or some other thing that produces such effects that are clearly superhuman and can't be defined properly otherwise.		0 game
Supernatural disaster	Depicts a major supernatural disaster or events immediately caused by it.	2007 / 2015	5 games
Supply and demand	Simulates supply and demand mechanics in economics, with selling price of items rising as the items become more scarce, and buying price lowering as they become more abundant.	1977 / 2021	24 games
Sweeping strikes (Cleaving)	Single melee strike can hit multiple targets.	1995 / 2016	33 games
Symmetric factions (Identical factions)	The factions have symmetric gameplay.	1992 / 2013	20 games
Synergy	Any tags referring to some kind of synergy, where two or more things together provide a greater effect.		0 game
Tag team	A type of team fight where only one character is actively controlled while the other waits nearby to be switched over (keeping fighting 1v1). In some instances both can act simultaneously (2v2 or even 2v1).	1984 / 2013	20 games
Tangible foes[Tangible enemes]	Enemies block movement just by being there.		4 games
Target lead indicator	A simple computer aiming aid model which calculates the direction you need to shoot at to hit the target at their current movement vector.	2002 / 2016	15 games
Targeted jump	A method of precise jumping in otherwise imprecise system. Player somehow targets where to jump.	1984 / 2016	8 games
Task failure(Quest failure)	Failing non-plot critical tasks does not allow repeat attempts. Besides denying task reward, this will also block progress in task chains.	1984 / 2015	17 games
Task tracker (Quest tracker;Mission tracker)	Player has an automated tool, explained or not, that automatically tracks vital points of any tasks they've agreed to perform.	2000 / 2021	218 games
Taunting loot	Player is shown clear glimpses of loot that they can not get until [i]much[/i] later, especially if this happens frequently.	2014 / 2016	4 games
Technological disparity (Mixed technology)[Tech disparity]	Low (primitive) and high technology are mixed on purpose in the depicted setting, such as swords and laser pistols being used at the same time by the same people.	1982 / 2018	56 games
Telefrag	A fatality or other often grotesque mishap that occurs when someone already occupies the teleport target location.	1995 / 2015	30 games
Temperatu scale options	Offers options on what scale to use for temperature presentation. Likely has celsius and fahrenheit at minimum.	2018 / 2020	4 games
Temperature	Temperature by itself can refer to several things.		0 game
Temperature changes	Temperature of an area (a room or a larger area) can change on its own or by influence of player (character) or others.	1987 / 2020	11 games
Temperature unit choice(Choice between celsius, kelvin and fahrenheit)	Player can choose which temperature unit to display, out of whatever is available. Likely celsius, kelvin and fahrenheit.		3 games
Templates[templating]	Player can create templates, usually to speed up doing identical or similar groups of actions/tasks later.	2000 / 2016	9 games
Text macros(Chat macros)	Has quick to use shortcuts for various pieces of text to send in-game, possibly customizable.		3 games
Text search	Includes a text search filter to quickly find something from long lists of things.	2014 / 2016	8 games
Thaumaturgy	Any tags referring to specific instances of miracle working that are not or can not be bundled or merged with other concepts.		0 game
The subject of Ternary Numerals	Features a ternary numeral system (trinary/base-3).	1975 / 1979	2 games
Theories	Deals an real life theory or theories. A theory is a group of true sentences which together support a particular conclusion.		1 game
Thermal conduction(Heat conduction)	Simulates thermal conduction.	2003 / 2020	5 games
Theurgy	A form of magic accomplished by compelling or persuading a god or gods to do it for you. Prayers bringing protection, good fortune, or other positive things to oneself and friends or harm to enemies.	1989 / 2021	14 games
Third option	Player is given clear options for what they can do, but the game also recognizes options beyond those clearly given. Especially if this happens repeatedly.	2000 / 2016	9 games
Third-party	There's an extra person, group, organization, or something that takes somewhat active role in the depicted events but is not really part of them (steers clear of any conflicts if possible, does not challenge either of the ones fighting).		0 game
Thirst(Dehydration)	Player must keep their characters and/or minions watered lest they suffer dehydration and possibly death.	1983 / 2018	32 games
Threat display	A behaviour meant to scare away any potential adversaries, usually accomplished by making oneself look larger, baring teeth, brandishing weapons (if any), and making threatening noises. Done as a warning to which player may react appropriately.	2001 / 2014	21 games
Threat indicator (Detection indicator)	Has some extra HUD or gameplay element that shows the protagonist is in danger even when the player does not know it. Often with several degrees of danger, from NPC suspicion, recognition, search, pursuit, to all out alarm.	1998 / 2018	50 games
Tides	Simulates tides, or similar cyclic rising and falling of water level, to a degree.	2011 / 2013	4 games
Time span: Millennia[millenia]	The story covers thousands of years.		1 game
Time span: Vague	The story of the game covers an indeterminate amount of time, with no clues on how much actual time passes.		2 games
Time Unit carryover[TU carryover]	Some or all unused time units (or action points or such) are carried over to next turn.	2014 / 2017	7 games
Time units[Action points]	Turn-based system that uses a point system (usually named TUs [time units] or action points) to simulate more real-time system where each action takes a varying number of them, such as walking one square takes 1-2, attacking takes 8-16, and so forth.	1992 / 2021	88 games
Time zones	Simulates time zones, with time of day being different around the world or on different worlds, instead the same one for all or similar limited system.	1984 / 2020	10 games
Time-lapse Images	Utilizes time-lapse images.		1 game
Timed block attacks	Timing blocks properly causes an attack to be performed in addition to it.		1 game
Timeout hunter	Once time limit is reached, or just certain time has passed, a hunter of some description is spawned that proceeds to chase the player until they finish the objective or are defeated.	1980 / 2018	36 games
Timing puzzle	Puzzle that requires some kind of synchronization between the pieces, and forces the player to measure the time/rhythm of the different parts to solve it.		3 games
Title mentioned(Eponym)	The game's title is mentioned in dialogue, cutscene or some other story related thing.	1983 / 2022	536 games
Titles	Player character may gain one or more titles over the course of the game, such as Champion of Divine Bakery, Verminslayer, Chosen of Bob, or some such.	2005 / 2014	6 games
Titular character (Titular protagonist)	Includes a character or such, commonly the protagonist him or herself, to whom the game's title refers to.	1983 / 2021	609 games
Titular concept	Involves a concept the game title refers to.	2000 / 2005	3 games
Titular entity	Involves an entity the game title refers to.	1999 / 2016	13 games
Titular event	Involves an event the game title refers to.	1992 / 2020	20 games
Titular group (Titular organization)	Involves a group (organization, company, faction, sect, gang, etc.) the game title refers to.	1991 / 2015	80 games
Titular locale[titular location]	Involves a location the game title refers to.	1983 / 2023	219 games
Titular object	Involves an object, device, vehicle, or such the game title refers to.	1991 / 2022	59 games
Titular vehicle	Involves a vehicle or such the game title refers to.	1984 / 2017	31 games
Tombstones [Gravestones;Headstones]	Features humorous quips or references written on tombstones as epitaphs. Likely things the authors couldn't fit anywhere else but didn't want to discard them.	1982 / 2017	73 games
Tornados (Twisters;Waterspouts;Typhoons;Hurricanes)[cyclones;vortexes;vortices]		1985 / 2003	23 games
Toxins (Poison;Venom)	The protagonist can get poisoned to varying degrees and must deal with it somehow.	1982 / 2021	98 games
Traction	Simulates variances in traction and loss of it.	2010 / 2016	5 games
Trade	Any and all trade related tags.		0 game
Trade with anyone	Player can trade, barter, or such with almost anyone they encounter and is not limited to just actual traders, shops, or similar, assuming the other party is open to such activities (such as not being hostile towards the player character)	2007 / 2016	11 games
Transcendency(Ascendancy)	Deals with reaching a higher state of being/existence. Usually becoming a higher non-corporeal being, a powerful spirit, demigod or even a full god or one that is indistinguishable from one.	1985 / 2014	51 games
Transdimensional (Dimensional overlap)	Involves (the protagonist) existing in multiple dimensions/realities simultaneously or otherwise uses the concept as notable plot or thematic element	2009 / 2014	3 games
Transformative corruption	Corruption that transforms those afflicted with it in one or more ways. Especially when this is when simply an idea physically corrupts/transforms someone. This may overlap with body horror, general corruption themes, presence of mutagens, etc.	1994 / 2023	31 games
Transforming presence	The presence of the protagonist or something they build/place transforms the surrounding area somehow, commonly with plants sprouting to life where they step. The effect is often temporary, though in some rare cases it's permanent.	1999 / 2018	19 games
Triangular grid[Triangle grid]	Uses grid of triangles.	1988 / 2019	23 games
Trophies	Objects that have little practical value but can be used to decorate one's home, vehicle, clothing, etc. Usually awarded for significant deeds, such as slaying a terrible monster or rendering a great service to some person or people.	2004 / 2014	9 games
Tunnel vision	A condition where person sees only the center (focal) part clearly or sees only that part with everything else indistinguishable.	1999 / 2014	9 games
Uncertain ending	The ending is uncertain if the heroes won, if things are better now, if what they did mattered, or any such spell uncertainty if that's the real end of the story or not.	1992 / 2016	10 games
Unconfirmed	Entries added before official (public) confirmation has been made for the game (thus these are not necessarily even in development).	2013 / 2015	3 games
Unfixed bugs	Exhibits significant game breaking bugs even after having been moved out of support phase.	1980 / 2017	35 games
Unique minions(Unique underlings)	Players minions, underlings, troops, etc. are all or mostly unique individuals and thus if lost something unique about them is lost as well.	1994 / 2017	58 games
Universal theatre (Universal theatre of war;Universal theatre of operations)		1994 / 2014	20 games
Unknown past (Blank past)	What the protagonist did or was before the beginning of the game is never revealed.	1990 / 2022	124 games
Unsteady camera (Unsteady perspective)	The camera moves about on its own. Likely to give sense that you're seeing the things from someone's or something's eyes or from a camera carried around by someone than the artificial fixed view you normally have.	2010 / 2015	10 games
Unused content(Cut content)	The data included with the game includes notable content that is not actually used in the game itself, often revealed by analysing the game data outside of the game.	2014 / 2015	4 games
Update retcon	Disregards or blatantly changes (story/mythos) facts compared to an earlier version of the game.	2004 / 2013	4 games
Upkeep	Your hirelings, projects, or other things require resources to be diverted to them for them to continue working.	1990 / 2019	49 games
UVL maintenance: Confusable	Any games that can be easily confused with another game by same or similar name on same or related platform.	1970 / 2021	2843 games
UVL Maintenance: Generic tie-in tag	Needed when migrating the tie-in game type to tags, now these games have to be tagged more specifically.	1981 / 2021	2245 games
UVL Maintenance: Phonetic Title Listed	An officially used phonetic title is listed in the game entry as an alternate title.		1 game
UVL maintenance: SKU problem	Known to have missing or incomplete SKU information. Or has a known technical problem (such as improper barcodes on packaging, and such difficulties)	1983 / 2016	57 games
UVL Steam Coverage Check	This is a maintenance tag to use when all the platforms involved have an entry.	2007 / 2017	51 games
UVL: Image Issues	This is a maintenance tag. The stored images have some unexpected issues ( i.e. thumbnails were not generated )		1 game
UVL: Images are safe, but not 'front page appropriate'	A maintenance tag to be removed from games later. For safe images that might give UVL visitors the wrong impression about UVL if seen on the main page		1 game
UVL: Refining needed	Any tags that are or seem to be in need of refining, better or more clearly defining what they are about and providing examples if some of the proposed concepts are vague or limited in scope.		0 game
UVL: Tags that may need renaming	This is maintenance tag for other tags that need their raw name changed. Usually a menial but time consuming task.		0 game
UVL: Version synchronization	This is maintenance tag for game entries that need to be synchronized with other more complete versions/ports of the game, such as copying basic game information and tags.	2009 / 2012	7 games
Vague story	The story is told only bits and pieces that don't entirely connect if at all, leaving a lot to be made up by the players.	2011 / 2018	9 games
VAGUE: Adventure	This could possibly mean `adventure game´ or `adventure fiction´.		0 game
VAGUE: Chat macros	This either refers to `text macros´ or `voice macros´.		0 game
VAGUE: Voice commands	This either refers to `voice macros´ or `voice control´		0 game
Vaguely Naturalistic	While is has nothing overtly magical, paranormal, psychic, mystic, super powers, technomagic, nor magical technology, some elements are not clearly so	1980 / 2018	16 games
Vanity items[Transmog;Glamor;Infusion;Infuse]	Player has access to items that do nothing but change the characters appearance and possibly sounds, having absolutely no impact in actual gameplay. Usually these have separate slots from normal gear.	2003 / 2021	28 games
Variable ability power (Variable magic power)	Player can use variable amount of power, force, time, etc. on performing a magic spell, ability or similar. Such as by selecting the power level each time the ability is used.	1993 / 2015	13 games
Variable gravity	Gravity is not uniform across a map, level, or other similar area with clear boundaries.	2010 / 2015	3 games
Variety bonus	Player gains bonuses (to score, cash, experience, whatever) for varying the method of doing whatever gives a reward.	2013 / 2014	3 games
Vendor trash	Objects that have absolutely no value for the player regardless of character build outside of being sold, and usually of sufficient monetary value to keep around specifically for that purpose. Usually things like jewellery, gems, and other trinkets.	1994 / 2018	67 games
Verse	Game features words presented with metric and/or rhythm and most likely rhyming.		2 games
Veterancy (Unit experience)	Your underlings gain experience when they participate and stay alive.	1984 / 2016	129 games
Virgins	Deals with virgins, regardless of the reasons for it, but puts some importance to the fact.		1 game
Vision indicator(Sight visualization)	Player is given some form of indicator of where other characters can see.		1 game
Visionary plan (Plan of foresight)	Story involves a plan set in motion long ago in anticipation of future threat.	2003 / 2011	13 games
Visualized trajectory[throw trajectory;projectile trajectory;trajectory indicator]	Non-straight trajectories are visualized somehow for the player, usually for thrown objects.	2009 / 2018	55 games
Vocal powers (Power of Voice)[sonic powers;sonant powers]	The player character expresses unusual powers with his/her speech, singing or voice in general.	2007 / 2011	4 games
Voice macros(Voice commands)	Simple pre-defined voice overs that may or may not be actual commands. Commonly exist in place of or as supplementary to text chat, voice chat, and text macros.	2005 / 2016	18 games
Volume grid	Uses any shaped grid with volume.	1974 / 2014	63 games
Vorarephilia(Vore)	Caters to people with vorarephilia, the act of being eaten or eating someone else. Divided into soft and hard vore, where the latter is gorey and grotesque while the former is harmless to the one being eaten.	2008 / 2010	5 games
VR: Room-scale	The VR experience is meant to be experienced while standing with plenty room to move about without bumping into things, meaning motion controllers and full body tracking or at least position tracking within that room is included.	2016 / 2019	3 games
VR: Seated	The VR experience is meant to be experienced while seated. This is the most basic VR experience as it likely means it doesn't use motion sensors besides head tracking if even that.	2014 / 2017	9 games
VR: Standing	The VR experience is meant to be experienced while standing.	2016 / 2017	4 games
VR: Vehicle locomotion	VR experience is in something that clearly is identifiable as passenger in a vehicle.		1 game
Wardrobe malfunction damage(Clothing damage)	Damage taken is presented as wardrobe malfunctioning to one degree or another, revealing more and more of specifically intimate bits.	2013 / 2018	8 games
Water (Liquids)	Any tags related to how water or other liquids behave or how player interacts with it.		0 game
Water walk[water walking;walking on water]	Includes a limited use device, ability, spell, or such that allows the protagonist to walk on water as if it was solid ground.	2005 / 2018	14 games
Wavering aim	All or most ranged weapons (possibly even melee weapons) suffer from the aim wavering about, possibly getting worse the longer you aim.		1 game
Waypoints	Player can set waypoints through which their characters or other units go through in order.	1997 / 2023	70 games
Weapon experience (Growing weapons;Weapon levels)	Rather than the character wielding a weapon becoming more practiced and skilled in using it, the weapon itself gains power through its use.	2000 / 2018	14 games
Wetting[Drenching;Soaking]	Things, especially characters and other creatures, can become wet/drenched. Alone this hardly does anything significant, so features that work with it are required.	2011 / 2016	11 games
Wild magic	Features magic or other powers that have unpredictable extraneous results. Not for magic that has completely random effects.	2000 / 2015	11 games
Wind indicator	Includes an indicator for wind direction and possibly speed.	1983 / 2018	160 games
Window entry/exit[Window exit]	Player can enter or exit locations through all or most windows (not counting armored windows or steel mesh reinforced ones or similar), by smashing the window if necessary.	1998 / 2017	24 games
Witnesses	Various activities (usually criminal) can have witnesses who can be eliminated in that capacity somehow (by bribing, killing, coercing, etc.)	2001 / 2012	10 games
Workers(Worker placement)	Work sites need workers and player can assign and re-assign those workers at will. Likely involves managing a limited workforce.	1994 / 2018	62 games
World domination	The plot involves someone (protagonist, antagonist, or some third party) trying to take over the world, galaxy, or the whole universe.	1991 / 2016	24 games
Xbox Classics (Best of Classics)	Budget range for games on the Microsoft consoles in PAL regions.	2006 / 2013	4 games
Xbox LIVE Gold	Requires Xbox LIVE Gold subscription to play (online) besides any other fees (such as the game's own subscription fee)		2 games
Zoned global lighting	Global lighting is changed by zones. Simple way to provide mood lighting for zones without volumetric lighting or similar, but causes transition areas between such zones to behave oddly with light.	2011 / 2018	4 games
Zoophilia(Bestiality)			2 games