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Immersive sims commonly have following traits : High levels of player intentionality and agency/ High systemicity / Emergence / Consistency / High reactivity. (tvtropes.org)

Games with a photography-based goal or mechanic. Not meant to include games that allow augmented-reality photography (e.g., Pokemon Go) unless that is a game objective.

Video games based on picross.

Video games developed by Austrian companies.

Video games developed in the Philippines

Includes Glückshaus, The 2000 Guineas, Chuck-a-luck, and Belmont Park Horse Racing Game

Includes The Belmont Stakes Handicap Horse Racing Game, Castle Poker, Cheese Thief, and Baccardo

Includes National Geographic: Pictures of the World Card Game, Alpha Nature, Trivial Pursuit: RPM Edition, and Wordie Wars

A subgenre of platform games. One main way in which cinematic platformers are distinguished from other platform games is that their game mechanics and visual style have a greater degree of realism, closer to that of Beat 'em Up games than other platform games.

Includes Tiny Lands, Immortality, Flutter Away, and Queen's Quest III: The End of Dawn

Videogames developed by Taiwanese companies.

Games that are primarily played in a web browser, especially on a personal computer.

Includes Dig & Spike Volleyball, Volleyball, Spike, and Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball

Includes Hog Auction, Bolsa, The Estates, and Across the Board

Board games only, not video games.

Any food related board or card games.

Any variation of games that can be played with a standard deck of playing cards.

Any board game that incorporates basic math skills in all or part of the gameplay.

Video games developed by Danish companies.

Includes Fated: The Silent Oath, Arizona Sunshine, Rez Infinite, and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality

Video games involving skateboarding.

Includes Beautiful Escape: Dungeoneer, Hatred, Carrion, and Dungeon Keeper 2

Games nominated for Game of the Year at The Game Awards (excluding winners).

Games that won Game of the Year at The Game Awards.

Includes Ming Mang, Lu Zhan Jun Qi, Hanafuda, and Ludus Latrunculorum

Psychological horror games are a breed of horror games with a particular focus on mental, emotional, and psychological states to frighten, disturb, or unsettle its audience. Psychological horror games differ from survival horror games in that the game focuses not on jump scares or monsters but rather on disturbing situations. (wikipedia)

Includes Q.U.B.E. 2, Viewfinder, The Entropy Centre, and The Talos Principle 2

Includes X-COM: Terror from the Deep, ABZÛ, James Pond 2: Codename: RoboCod, and Subnautica

Includes Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, Divinity: Original Sin II, Outer Wilds, and Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut

An auto battler, also known as auto chess, is a subgenre of strategy video games that typically feature chess-like elements where players place characters on a grid-shaped battlefield during a preparation phase, who then fight the opposing team's characters without any further direct input from the player.

Includes Dying Light, Dying Light 2 Stay Human, Mirror's Edge, and Hot Lava

Includes Wraith: The Oblivion - The Orpheus Device, Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York, Hunter: The Reckoning: Wayward, and Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood

Includes Deliver Us the Moon, Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space, Star Trek: Judgement Rites, and Star Trek: 25th Anniversary

Includes Disney's Aladdin, Arabian Nights, Disney's Aladdin, and Prince of Persia 3D

Includes Lakeburg Legacies, Stronghold, Defender of the Crown, and Medieval: Total War

Video games developed by Singaporean companies.

Includes The Occupation, Love, Sam, Tacoma, and Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard

Includes Shadow of the Colossus, A Short Hike, Grow Up, and The Climb 2

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

Video games developed by Brazilian companies.

Board and card games invented or produced between 1900 and 1950.

Includes Dog Gone Golfing, Golf Tiddlywinks, Everybody's Golf 6, and What the Golf?

Includes Instant Tennis, Matchpoint: Tennis Championships, Virtua Tennis 2, and AO Tennis 2

Includes Tiddlycricket, Tiddlytennis, Golf Tiddlywinks, and Tiddley Golf

Video games listed in this category have been considered by video game critics to have "art game" characteristics: they are designed to emphasize art or their structure is intended to produce some kind of reaction in their audience. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Art_games)

Includes Quantum, Abandon all Artichokes, Escape from the Hidden Castle, and Welcome to New Las Vegas

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

Morten and Kasper's quest to find and master the very best two player board games in existence.

A battle royale game is an online multiplayer video game genre that blends last-man-standing gameplay with the survival, exploration and scavenging elements of a survival game. Battle royale games involve dozens to hundreds of players, who start with minimal equipment and then must eliminate all other opponents while avoiding being trapped outside of a shrinking "safe area" or "safe zone", with the winner being the last player or team alive. (Wikipedia)

Games that use video/live actors rather than animation