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Games available for Game Pass for PC subscribers. Includes EA Play games available for Game Pass for PC subscribers.

Games included in the 2022 Bundle for Abortion Funds from itch.io.

Games included in the 2021 Indie Bundle for Palestinian Aid from itch.io.

Includes The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Grime, Thimbleweed Park, and DNF Duel

Includes Good Bones, Abandon all Artichokes, Set, and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

Games where you play as female protagonist for the majority of the game (no choices offered at the beginning)

Includes Enter the Matrix, Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair, MDK 2, and Binary Domain

Includes El Paso, Elsewhere, Kid Dracula, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, and A Vampyre Story

Games included in the 2020 Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality from itch.io.

Includes Assetto Corsa, Ride 4, Ravenous Devils, and Hyperlight

Recommended by Steam curator Wholesome Games, or featured on the similarly titled YouTube channel, including the Wholesome Direct presentations.

Video games developed by Polish companies.

Includes Bad North, God of War: Ragnarök, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, and Northgard

Includes Criminal Border 2nd Offense, Rance III - Fall of Leazas, Rance VI: The Collapse of Zeth, and Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers Get All The Girls

A city-building game, or town-building game, is a genre of simulation video game where players act as the overall planner and leader of a city or town, looking down on it from above, and being responsible for its growth and management strategy. Players choose building placement and city management features such as salaries and work priorities, and the city develops accordingly.

Includes TimeSplitters, Bright Memory, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, and Chernobylite

4X (abbreviation of Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate) are a subgenre of strategy-based computer. The gameplay involves building an empire. Emphasis is placed upon economic and technological development, as well as a range of non-military routes to supremacy.

Board and card games that are suitable or easily adapted for use in a language learning environment.

Includes A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition), The Batman and Robin Game, The Flying Nun Game, and The Match Game

Includes Rise of Prussia, Valkyria Chronicles, Battle Isle, and Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command

Includes Stare Off, Master Word, Lawyer Up, and Hollywood Shuffle

Includes Like a Dragon: Ishin!, Tenchu 2: Birth of the Stealth Assassins, Total War: Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai, and Tenchu: Stealth Assassins

Includes Dead Rising 4, Resident Evil, Dead Island 2, and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

Includes Hidden & Dangerous 2, Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad, Unity of Command II, and WWII Aces

Board or card games you can easily make yourself.

Includes Gemini Rue, Lure of the Temptress, Nancy Drew: The Haunted Carousel, and Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill

Includes Robbotto, Goat Simulator, Battlefield 1, and Slam Tilt

Business simulation games, also known as economic simulation games or tycoon games, are games that focus on the management of economic processes, usually in the form of a business.

Includes Les 1000 Bornes des Mots, Articulate!, Scrabble Upper Hand, and What's the Word

Includes Chocolate Factory, Aloha Burger, Word Basket, and Knit Wit

Any board, card, tile or computer games for learning Japanese.

Includes Bagou, Gemu: The Japanese Language Card Game, Japanese: The Game, and SHIRITORI

Video games based on Games Workshop IPs.

The GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Video Game is an annual award that honors video games for excellence in the depiction of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) characters and themes.

For a video game to be eligible, it must contain "outstanding LGBTQ-inclusive content", consisting of LGBT characters and stories that are "authentic and impactful". An important criterion is to what extent the LGBT-inclusive content is integrated into the gameplay, specifically in regard to player agency and the game's world. Said LGBT-inclusive content must be revealed either within the game itself, or alternate media that are canonical to the game's world. Since 2021, only video games from major developers and publishers are eligible as standard, although a game from non-major developers and publishers can still be nominated if it achieves a similar level of visibility and impact to a mainstream work. If a game was released prior to the eligibility period, it can still be nominated if "substantial new first-party content" is released during the eligibility period, with said content being evaluated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLAAD_Media_Award_for_Outstanding_Video_Game

The GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Video Game is an annual award that honors video games for excellence in the depiction of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) characters and themes.

For a video game to be eligible, it must contain "outstanding LGBTQ-inclusive content", consisting of LGBT characters and stories that are "authentic and impactful". An important criterion is to what extent the LGBT-inclusive content is integrated into the gameplay, specifically in regard to player agency and the game's world. Said LGBT-inclusive content must be revealed either within the game itself, or alternate media that are canonical to the game's world. Since 2021, only video games from major developers and publishers are eligible as standard, although a game from non-major developers and publishers can still be nominated if it achieves a similar level of visibility and impact to a mainstream work. If a game was released prior to the eligibility period, it can still be nominated if "substantial new first-party content" is released during the eligibility period, with said content being evaluated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLAAD_Media_Award_for_Outstanding_Video_Game

Video games that simulate association football (soccer) management.

Was it a cool board game? And now you are playing it on your phone/desktop/web browser?

Includes Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, Jagged Alliance 2, Chroma Squad, and Mechajammer

Includes James Cameron's Dark Angel, Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, and Crackdown

Includes The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief, Chicago 1930, Wildlife Zoo, and Port Royale 3: Pirates & Merchants

Includes Daze Before Christmas, Snakeball, Dreamfall Chapters, and Draugen

Includes Lost Vikings 2: Norse by Norsewest, Puzzles for Clef, Shady Part of Me, and Silt

Video games developed by Ukrainian companies.

Scrolling shooters are a subgenre of shoot 'em ups. Vertically scrolling shooters or vertical scrolling shooters present the action from above and scroll up (or occasionally down) the screen. Side-scrolling shooters or horizontal scrolling shooters present a side-on view and scroll horizontally. (Wikipedia)

Bullet hell (弾幕, danmaku, literally "barrage" or "bullet curtain") is a subgenre of shooters in which the entire screen is often almost completely filled with enemy bullets. (Wikipedia)

Includes The Forest Cathedral, Venba, Final Profit: A Shop RPG, and A Highland Song

Video games based on the Western genre of fiction.

Includes Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, Tales of Monkey Island, Overboard!, and The Secret of Monkey Island

Stealth-oriented real-time tactics video game influenced bu the commandos serie.

Includes Panzer Dragoon, Sable, Chants of Sennaar, and Ultros