Action
Game genre theme
Informal group for finding action sub-genres.
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games
2platforms
Most common companies
This is a container group; its children are:
| Action-Adventure | A very vague genre often involving lots of action in form of bloody combat, somewhat spacious environments, and an occasional environmental puzzle. Also includes adventure games that are very action oriented. | 1980 / 2024 | 1128 games |
| Action-RPG | RPG sub-genre characterized with heavy focus on fast-paced (real-time) combat and is overall very similar to Action-Adventure genre. | 1980 / 2021 | 504 games |
| Fighting | Informal group for finding fighting game sub-genres; Primarily one-on-one fighting genre, but includes tag team fighting, too. | container group | |
| Frogger-like | Anything that replicates the basic gameplay introduced in Frogger, where you navigate obstacles, time your movements, and find safe paths, often from a top-down view or grid-based layout. | 1981 / 2022 | 153 games |
| Head On-like | Anything that replicates the basic gameplay of "grid capture" games, introduced in Head On. (too short) | 1979 / 1990 | 25 games |
| Pac-Man-like | Any game that replicates the basic gameplay of the original Pac-Man, with the goal of clearing a maze of dots while eluding deadly adversaries. | 1979 / 2020 | 560 games |
| Platformer | Informal group for finding platformer sub-genres. (too short) | 1981 / 2021 | container group 1229 games |
| Pong | Pong and any game that reproduces a simple two-dimensional table tennis simulation. Widely considered one of the first video games. | 1972 / 2021 | 230 games |
| Shooter | Informal group for finding shooter sub-genres. (too short) | container group |