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Includes Solitairica, Metro: Last Light, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, and Prison Architect

Video games developed by Polish companies.

Includes Death to Spies, Panzer General, Hearts of Iron III, and Hearts of Iron IV

Includes American Arcadia, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Goodbye Volcano High, and Signalis

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 Cherry Orchard, I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, Letters - A Written Adventure, and Capybara Spa

Includes Jet Force Gemini, El Paso, Elsewhere, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, and Metal Arms: Glitch in the System

Includes BloodNet, BloodRayne: Betrayal, Dracula: Resurrection, and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

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

Includes Ride 4, Remothered: Tormented Fathers, Cuccchi, and MotoGP 17

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

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

Includes Rance 5D - Lonely girl, Wet Attack: The Empire Cums Back, Super Seducer 3: The Final Seduction, and Criminal Border 2nd Offense

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 Quake Live, Half-Life 2, Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, and Payday 2

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 To Tell the Truth, Sale of the Century, 12 O'Clock High Card Game, and Word for Word

Includes Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate, Xenonauts, Warship, and War in Russia

Includes Game of HAM: Adult Set, Master Word, Initialisms, and Prompt

Includes Ghost of Tsushima, Samurai Warriors 3, Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada, and Shogun: Total War

Includes Resident Evil, The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, The Walking Dead: Michonne, and Zombie Apocalypse

Board or card games you can easily make yourself.

Includes Norco, Blade Runner, Samorost 2, and Whispers of a Machine

Includes GoNNER, Amnesia: Rebirth, My Friend Pedro, and Penumbra: Overture

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 Script-o-Gram, Knit Wit, Scrabble, and Wordex

Includes Coffee Roaster, Knit Wit, Aloha Burger, and Word Basket

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

Includes Word Basket, SHIRITORI, Japanese: The Game, and Hiragana Sentence

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: Path of Radiance, Chroma Squad, Mechajammer, and Mega Man Battle Network 5

Includes Gemini Rue, Technobabylon, Liberation: Captive 2, and Mars: War Logs

Includes Park Beyond, Jack Keane 2: The Fire Within, The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom, and Dungeons 3

Includes Pode, Among the Sleep, Warhammer: Arcane Magic, and Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley

Includes Vessel, Braid, The Fall, and Teslagrad

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 Mediterranea Inferno, Cobalt Core, The Forest Cathedral, and Cocoon

Video games based on the Western genre of fiction.

Includes Port Royale 4, Konkan Coast Pirate Solutions, Pirates: Legend of the Black Buccaneer, and Cutthroat Island

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