Grid
Other (objects, etc.) concept
Uses a grid of any shape or type.
3570
games
147platforms

DOS 1994

PS2 2004-10-28

WIN 2013-02-18

MAC 1989

GBA 2004-11-25

MAC 1992

GB 1997-06-24

PSP 2005-08-25

LIN 2008

VCS 1983

CSTM 1957

WIN 2015-09-01
Most non-polygon based games use grid of some sort in the background to align environments, props, etc. these should NOT be included in this tag. Most of these are much better described with the tile-based tag anyway. There are few games that are confusing in this, such as Minecraft and related games, but that is still tile-based and not grid-based (characters are not locked to that "grid").
Related:
* Grid move
Related: (environment rendering)
* Tile-based - can appear grid-based if the tiles are uniform sized/shaped, but notably character movement and other actions are not locked to that grid.
* Pre-rendered backgrounds
* Grid move
Related: (environment rendering)
* Tile-based - can appear grid-based if the tiles are uniform sized/shaped, but notably character movement and other actions are not locked to that grid.
* Pre-rendered backgrounds
The first Grid video game was released on August 25, 1950.
SSI, Koei and Paradox Interactive published most of these games.
Child groups
Irregular grid, Triangular grid, Hexagonal grid, Rectangular grid, Microgrid, Volume grid, Grid of Wang Tiles, Cairo Pentagonal Tiling Grid, Asymmetric non-irregular grid
Platforms
Linux | ![]() | 798 | |
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Windows | ![]() | 357 | |
MS-DOS | ![]() | 223 | |
Mac OS Classic | ![]() | 209 | |
Apple II E | ![]() | 160 | |
BeOS | ![]() | 117 | |
Mac OS X | ![]() | 89 | |
Amiga | ![]() | 73 | |
C64 | ![]() | 65 | |
TRS-80 | ![]() | 58 | |
BSD | ![]() | 55 | |
OS/2 | ![]() | 49 | |
PS | ![]() | 46 | |
Atari 400/800 | ![]() | 44 | |
Win3.1 | ![]() | 44 | |
Tandy Coco | ![]() | 43 | |
Atari ST | ![]() | 42 | |
NES | ![]() | 42 | |
custom | ![]() | 38 | |
ZX Spectrum | ![]() | 37 | |
SNES | ![]() | 36 | |
Nintendo DS | ![]() | 31 | |
Amstrad CPC | ![]() | 30 | |
GBA | ![]() | 30 | |
Android | ![]() | 30 | |
NeXT | ![]() | 29 | |
PS2 | ![]() | 26 | |
PSP | ![]() | 25 | |
GB | ![]() | 25 | |
Commodore PET | ![]() | 23 |