Classifying games is an art form, and there's people better at it than I am. But here is my current attempt.
| Name | Description |
| 1st person | View the gameworld as your character in it. Example Myst |
| 3rd person | Currently games which are not 1st person but may refine later. Example The Secret of Monkey Island |
| Name | Description |
| Cards | Card based gameplay. Example Cardpocalypse |
| Comedy | Less than serious game like The Secret of Monkey Island |
| Dungeon crawl | Example Darkest Dungeon |
| Edutainment | Game with a strong didactic element like Bioscopia |
| Escape | Escape a room or rooms like Great Escapes |
| Exploration | Often solitary exploration where you discover what has happened like Myst |
| HOG | Find hidden object gameplay like Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst |
| Horror | Example Amnesia: The Bunker |
| Interactive Movie | Example Late Shift |
| Investigation | A mystery game with emphasis on clues and deduction or legal processes. Example The Centennial Case |
| JRPG | Japanese style RPGs where battles occur randomly Example Fantasian |
| Mystery | Example The Cameron Files: The Secret at Loch Ness |
| Puzzle | Focus on the puzzles more than anything else like Drawn 1: The Painted Tower |
| Quest | End goals well defined like save the universe example Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time |
| RPG | Example Baldur's Gate 3 |
| Visual Novel | Page turners in more ways than one like Amairo Chocolate |
| Walking simulator | Can have minimal gameplay example 7Groves |
| Name | Description |
| Futuristic | Think spaceships etc example Tron: Identity |
| Pirates | Think Guybrush Threepwood like The Secret of Monkey Island |
| War | Example This War of Mine |
| Wild West | Example Fenimore Fillmore: The Westerner |