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Video games developed by Polish companies.

Includes Battlehawks 1942, Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, Combat Mission II: Barbarossa to Berlin, and War Thunder

Includes Twelve Minutes, Norco, Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course, and As Dusk Falls

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 Darkwood, Darksiders, Maneater, and Spelldrifter

Includes Botany Manor, Legacy of Kain: Defiance, She and the Light Bearer, and Butterfly Soup

Includes Army of Two: The 40th Day, Spec Ops: The Line, Resident Evil 2, and Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

Includes Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

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

Includes Riot: Civil Unrest, 2048, Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, and MXGP 2019

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

Includes Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Bad North, and God of War: Ragnarök

Includes Super Seducer 2, Hoshizora no Memoria: Wish Upon A Shooting Star, Dead or Alive Paradise, and Wet Attack: The Empire Cums Back

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 Chex Quest 2: Flemoids Take Chextropolis, Quake, PO'ed, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

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 The Newlywed Game, Ben Casey M.D., Ask Pickles, and To Tell the Truth

Includes Overrun!, Gary Grigsby's World at War, Battle Brothers, and Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

Includes Convince Me!, Ready, Set, EIGO! Card Game, Stare Off, and Prompt

Includes Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence, Samurai Warriors 2: Xtreme Legends, Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, and Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada

Includes Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Dying Light, The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, and The Walking Dead: 400 Days

Board or card games you can easily make yourself.

Includes Chuchel, Good Bones, Flight of The Amazon Queen, and VirtuaVerse

Includes SteamWorld Dig, Robbotto, Backpacker, and Star Wars: Battlefront II

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 Word for Word, Initialisms, 10 Dice, and Bild-A-Word

Includes 2nd Best!, Coffee Roaster, Word Basket, and Aloha Burger

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

Includes Bagou, Hiragana Sentence, SHIRITORI, 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 Chroma Squad, Fire Emblem: Awakening, Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword, and Mordheim: Warband Skirmish

Includes There Came an Echo, Quarantine, Immercenary, and Digital Devil Monogatari: Megami Tensei

Includes Gothic II: Night of the Raven, Lost Chronicles of Zerzura, Car Tycoon, and FAST Racing NEO

Includes The Life of Mr Pips, Warhammer: Arcane Magic, Daze Before Christmas, and Shadow Puppeteer

Includes Nihilumbra, Gris, Silt, and Seasons After Fall

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, The Forest Cathedral, The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, and Kevin(1997-2077)

Video games based on the Western genre of fiction.

Includes Port Royale 3: Pirates & Merchants, Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge, Tales of Monkey Island, and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow

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