Gimmick

Culture concept

Includes a unique or quirky feature that somehow makes the game stand out of the others of its kin. Commonly focused on in any marketing.

20
games
5
platforms
Note that these may not be actually anything new in games, only that they try to sell the game with this feature and thus have likely spent extra time in making it very interesting/important part of the gameplay.

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Games by year

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The first Gimmick video game was released on August 21, 2007.

EA Partners, Recoil Games and 2K Games published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 7
PS3 5
X360 4
Mac OS X 2
Linux 2