1. Sport
1.1. Sport games imitate a sport taken from real life and allow you to play it in video game form
1.1.1. Team vs Team
1.1.2. May contain real life players
1.1.3. lots of players
2. Platformer
2.1. Players must avoid obstacles and pits
2.1.1. Can be both 2D and 3D
2.1.2. Powerups
2.1.3. Lots of mobility options
2.1.4. Many Stages
3. Educational
3.1. Games designed to teach you
3.1.1. Kid friendly
3.1.2. Not too difficult
3.1.3. Typically free and to be played on browser
4. Rhythm
4.1. Games where you must press a button on beat to music
4.1.1. Score System
4.1.2. Many Songs
4.1.3. Difficulty System
4.1.4. Streak
5. Adventure
5.1. Games with heavy emphesis on exploration
5.1.1. Open world
5.1.2. Large map
5.1.3. Secrets
5.1.4. Story and world building
6. MMO
6.1. A Massively Multiplayer Online game with lots of players all in one world
6.1.1. Many player interactions
6.1.2. Big world
6.1.3. Sometimes also RPGs
6.1.4. Guilds
7. Puzzle
7.1. Games where you must use your brain to solve puzzles and advance through the levels
7.1.1. Many variables allowing for complicated and difficult puzzles
7.1.2. Many are top down
7.1.3. Difficult
8. RTS
8.1. Real Time Strategy
8.1.1. Typically top down
8.1.2. Many troops you can deploy to defeat foes
8.1.3. A base to defend
8.1.4. Often PvP
9. Horror
9.1. Grenre of games designed to scare
9.1.1. Dark rooms/nighttime
9.1.2. High amounts of blood and gore
9.1.3. Jumpscares
9.1.4. Contains phobias
10. Driving/racing
10.1. In driving games you ride a vehicle towards a goal before anyone else can
10.1.1. High amounts of players
10.1.2. Many cars, sometimes with different stats
10.1.3. Many race courses
10.1.4. Drifting
10.1.5. May have powerups
11. Sandbox
11.1. Games where you have little to no objective and create and use whatever you want and whatever pace you want
11.1.1. Many items to use and mess around with
11.1.2. Minimal to no risk
11.1.3. Freedom to do whatever you want
12. Shooter
12.1. Long range combat games where players might defeat their enemies using ranged weapons
12.1.1. Gun modifiers and attachments
12.1.2. Ranged Weapons, typically guns
12.1.3. Many maps
12.1.4. Items such as grenades or medkits
12.1.5. Cover
13. Fighting game
13.1. Close range hand to hand combat games where 2 or more players fight to the death to decide who is victorious
13.1.1. Close range combat
13.1.2. Typically 2D
13.1.3. Multiple Characters with unique abilitys and moves
13.1.4. Bar that fills up that allows you to use stronger moves
13.1.5. Moves require special inputs to preform
14. Simulation
14.1. Simulate an action, job or thing
14.1.1. Highly diverse, many simulations games share little simularities
14.1.2. May play not as a character but as a floating camera you can look from the sky from
15. RPG
15.1. Role Playing game, the player controls the actions of 1 or more characters
15.1.1. Large majority are turn based combat
15.1.2. Lots of story
15.1.3. Party system
15.1.4. Many characters
15.1.5. Spells, attacks, blocking etc
16. Action
16.1. Action games contain lots of combat
16.1.1. Combat both close and long ranged
16.1.2. Various enemies
16.1.3. Require good hand-eye co-ordination