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Video games developed by Polish companies.

Includes Tank Warfare: Tunisia 1943, Sniper Elite V2, Faces of War, and Panzer Strike

Includes The Cub, Twelve Minutes, Signalis, and The Expanse: A Telltale Series

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

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 Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos, Alien: Isolation, Rocket League, and Gnog

Includes King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human, Bunny Park, Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City, and Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within

Includes Enter the Matrix, Postal III, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, and Alan Wake Remastered

Includes Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi, Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, and Vampire Rain

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

Includes Remothered: Tormented Fathers, Another Sight, Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom, and Ducati - 90th Anniversary

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

Includes Bad North, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and Northgard

Includes Ladykiller in a Bind, Lula: The Sexy Empire, Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson, and Kichikuou Rance

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 F.E.A.R. 3, Into the Pit, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, and Marathon Infinity

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 Dr. Kildare, What Am I Bid?, The Batman and Robin Game, and The Price Is Right

Includes Kampfgruppe, Worms 2, Jagged Alliance 2, and Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising

Includes Too Many Cooks, À la Manière d'Arcimboldo, Master Word, and Sounds Fishy

Includes Total War: Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai, Samurai Warriors: Katana, Shadow Assault: Tenchu, and Nobunaga's Ambition

Includes Resident Evil 5, Zombie Apocalypse: Never Die Alone, Organ Trail, and Dead Island 2

Board or card games you can easily make yourself.

Includes Grim Fandango, Runaway: A Road Adventure, Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work, and Return of the Phantom

Includes Valheim, Flipping Death, Hayfever, and Mechstermination Force

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 Crazy Alias, Letter Roll, Upon My Word, and Word Ace

Includes Word Basket, Rolling Japan, Knit Wit, and 2nd Best!

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

Includes Bagou, Gemu: The Japanese Language Card Game, Hiragana Sentence, and Japanese: The Game

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 Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword, Mordheim: Warband Skirmish, Disgaea 5, and Mega Man Battle Network 5

Includes System Shock, Binary Domain, Neuromancer, and Shadowrun Returns

Includes The Whispered World, Sacred, Gothic II: Night of the Raven, and The Patrician

Includes Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, Shiftlings, Dreamfall Chapters, and Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure

Includes Shadow Puppeteer, Fez, Silt, and Braid

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 Tchia, A Highland Song, Clash: Artifacts of Chaos, and The Forest Cathedral

Video games based on the Western genre of fiction.

Includes Jolly Rover, Port Royale: Gold, Power and Pirates, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, and Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat

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