Collections at Criticker

Includes Everybody's Talking, The Adventures of Rin-Tin-Tin, Barnabas Collins Dark Shadows Game, and Wheel of Fortune

Includes KKnD, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, Myth: The Fallen Lords, and Cossacks 3

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

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

Games included in the 2022 Bundle for Ukraine from itch.io.

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

Includes The Mixologist, Bethump'd with Words: Discovery Edition, Try Time: New Zealand's Rugby Trivia Game, and Facts in Five

Includes Word Ace, Word Rummikub, Lexicon-Go, and Word Blur

Includes Dodo Peak, This War of Mine, Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, and The Outer Worlds

Includes Luma Island, KarmaZoo, Spiritfarer, and PlateUp!

Video games developed by studios from the Netherlands.

Video games based on farming.

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

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

Includes Fallout Tactics, Metro 2033, Metro: Last Light, and Iron Lung

Games in which cooking is a gameplay theme or mechanic (including cooking-based crafting)

Video games developed by Serbian companies.

Includes Mutropolis, Nihilumbra, Tiny Thief, and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate

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

Video games developed by Brazilian companies.

Includes Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure, I.G.I.-2: Covert Strike, Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley, and Shadow Puppeteer

Includes Storage Auction Showdown, Hog Auction, Quest for the Open Tavern, and 1822: The Railways of Great Britain

Board games only, not video games.

Any food related board or card games.

Games where there are explanations or reviews available on YouTube. Sometimes the explanations or reviews are not in English.

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

Includes Air Hoops, Go Fish Dice, Chess, and Logical Line

Video games developed by Czech companies.

Video games developed by Danish companies.

Includes Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive, My Riding Stables: Life with Horses, Mall of America Tycoon, and The Patrician

Includes Chrono Quest, UFO Robot Grendizer: The Feast of the Wolves, MachiaVillain, and Splasher

Board or card games you can easily make yourself.

Includes The Hajj Fun Game, Pharisees: The Party Game, Going to Jerusalem, and The Mansion of Happiness

Includes Tiddlytennis, Tiddle Tennis, In The Soup, and Golfwinks

Fun games particularly suited for an ESL/EFL kids' class, either as a distraction, transition or to focus on a specific learning point.

Includes Knit Wit, Coffee Roaster, Word Sniper, and Rolling Japan

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

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

Includes Pinball Dreams, War of the Roses, Hokko Life, and Victoria II

Hack and slash, also known as hack and slay (H&S or HnS) or slash 'em up, refers to a type of gameplay that emphasizes combat with melee-based weapons (such as swords or blades). They may also feature a few projectile-based weapons as well (such as guns) as secondary weapons. It is a sub-genre of beat 'em up games, which focuses on melee combat usually with fists. Hack-and-slash action games are sometimes known as character action games. (Wikipedia)

Includes Gears of War 4, Army of Two, Spec Ops: The Line, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Games only for people 18 and older. These kind of games often contain explicit humor and situations that might be offensive to some adults and not appropriate for younger gamers. Many of these games contain sexual or alcohol related humor.

Video games based on Games Workshop IPs.

Video games developed by Russian companies.

Includes Gibbon: Beyond the Trees, Echolocaution, Feather, and Ecco: The Tides of Time

Dating sims, or romance simulation games (恋愛シミュレーションゲーム, ren'ai shimyurēshon gēmu), are a video game subgenre of simulation games with romantic elements. Dating sims are often dialog-heavy and focus on time management. The player must befriend and carefully build and maintain a relationship with one or more characters. (Wikipedia)

Includes ESC, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, The Crimson Diamond, and The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game

Videogames developed by Indonesian companies.

Less than 2 hours

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.