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 # Genre
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 # Setting
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