Game Genres

What’s a Game Genre?

Game genres are used to classify video games based on their gameplay interface rather than visual or story differences. Game genres are defined by a set of gameplay challenges and are classified independent of their setting or game-world content.

Video games have become more popular and much more complex over the past years.  There are heaps of game genres out there now and just like with movies, not all are suited for every player. The genre of a game is basically the group the game belongs to, Call of duty is a FPS; Skyrim is a RPG and so on. But genres of games can become confusing especially when they are more than one genre in one. Games like Portal fit the genre of FPS because it’s played in first person but it’s seen by a puzzle game by everyone who’s played it or seen it.

Arcade games started off great, but as better consoles and eventually computers came along, arcade games have been slowly dying off. It’s interesting to see that puzzle games have been bumped up to some of the most played games but that’s all thanks to the apps on smartphones. Action games remain on a steady streak along with strategy, RPGs and Action adventure.

Game genres are very important to the game and the gaming community because that’s what helps the players decide what game to play.