Groups comparison

Dialog: Stance (Demeanour;Behaviour)[Demeanor;Behavior] - 1984 to 2011
Dialogs work by selecting a stance, such as aggressive, helpful, evasive or neutral.

Dialog: Progressive - 1985 to 2002
Dialog largely proceeds forward without returning to earlier subjects or repeating them.

Dialog: Sentences - 1985 to 2021
Dialogs work by selecting or typing in whole sentences. Often used in point and click adventures or action/adventure games to provide limited options to advance the gameplay down a particular narrative road.

Dialog: Tree - 1985 to 2017
Dialog works by navigating a tree-like structure of subjects in form of keywords or whole sentences.

Interactive dialogues - 1985 to 2024
Includes dialogues where the player has some control over the course they take.

Dialog: Actions(Physical actions) - 1986 to 2015
Dialog occasionally includes physical actions as options, regardless if this actually is any different from spoken actions.

Dialog: Keywords(Paraphrased) - 1988 to 2021
Dialogs work by selecting or typing in keywords or very short versions of what is actually being said.

Dialog: Time limit - 2005 to 2016
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.