Game categories

Genre
Action Action

Packed with action. Fast reaction, swift input control and a quick eye are advantageous.

Adventure Adventure

Take your time and let the story unfold...

Arcade Arcade

Short levels, easy controls.

Party Party

Get together, have fun and laugh!

Racing
Role-playing Role-playing

Be someone else. Enjoy the company of other players, create, communicate or fight.

Simulation Simulation

The goal of a simulation games is to virtually reproduce a part of the real world as closely as possible.

Strategy Strategy

The game is already won or lost in the heads of the contestants before it even started.

Subgenre
4X

4X is a subgenre of strategy, in which players control an empire and in order to win "eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate".

6DoF

Six Degrees of Freedom, move forward/backward, up/down, left/right.

Beat 'Em Up

Beat 'em up (also known as brawler) is a video game genre featuring melee combat between the protagonist and an improbably large number of underpowered enemies.

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Boardgame
Card game
Children / Educational
Driving

Drive cars, trucks or motorbikes.

Economy

The main goal of economy or tycoon games is to maximize the profit of your business.

Flying

Control airplanes or helicopters, anything that flies.

MMO

Massively multiplayer online game. The game is played online by lots of (100+) people.

Music
Navigate

Control ships, boats or submarines, anything that floats on water.

Platform
Point & Click

Point & Click is a subgenre of adventure video games.

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Programming
Puzzle Puzzle
Real-time
Roguelike

The roguelike is a sub-genre of role-playing video games, characterized by level randomization, permanent death, and turn-based movement. Most roguelikes feature ASCII graphics, with newer games increasingly offering tile-based graphics. Games are typically dungeon crawls, with many monsters, items, and environmental features.

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Shooter
Shoot 'Em Up

Shoot 'em up (also known as shmup or STG) is a subgenre of shooter video games.

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Social
Sports
Total conversion

A total conversion is a mod of an existing game that (usually) replaces almost all of the artistic assets in the original game, and sometimes core aspects of gameplay, in some cases creating a game in a completely different genre from the original.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_%28computer_gaming%29#Total_conversion

Turn-based
Visual Novel / Text Based Visual Novel / Text Based
Game modes
Campaign

The game tells a story. The player usually follows the storyline completing missions in a linear or self chosen order.

Open ended

There is no determined end to reach or ultimate goal to accomplish.

Sandbox

A place to test and try and investigate.

Tower Defense

Tower defense is a subgenre of real-time strategy video games.

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Challenge
Cooperative
Objective
Deathmatch
Elimination
Skirmish
Competition
Game features
Singleplayer Singleplayer

This game has a mode where it can be played alone.

2 Players 2 Players

This game is designed to be played by 2 players.

Multiplayer Multiplayer

This game is designed to be played by lots of players.

Editor

A designated editor enables the user to edit parts of the game, e.g. maps or levels.

Online

This game is playable online.

AI

The computer can control a side that usually is controlled by a human player.

Bots

The computer controls characters that replace human players in the game.

Game graphic
2D
3D
text (console)
Source
Open

The term open is used for games when most parts of the source code are publicly available.
Many of these games are published under the GNU General Public License (GPL) but also a wide variety of different licenses are used as well, some are more popular than others and some are custom ones. A game can have more then one license, one for the engine and another one for artwork or music. A game who's artwork is not published under an open source license is still eligible for this tag if the game code is.

Closed

Either the code or the artwork for these games is generally closed course and the game is usually released under a proprietary license.

Game theme
Abstract
Ancient
Colonial era
Comic
Fantasy
Futuristic

In contrast to a Science-fiction theme a futuristic theme doesn't focus so much on the science part, it just focuses on looking cool and uses some futuristic elements, plasma guns, laser guns, a rough idea of the future. It's a common theme for first person shooters.

Medieval
Post apocalyptic
Present
Science-fiction

Compared to a futuristic theme a science fiction theme focuses on the technology side of a conception of a future. What resources will be used, what would the social structure be? where did evolution develop? This theme is mostly used in simulation or strategy games.

Space
War
Payment
Free
Micropayment

Playing is free but for small amounts of money improvements and/or upgrades can be bought.

Commercial Commercial
Subscription

A monthly/yearly fee is required to play this game.

One-time

Pay once to play this game.

Distribution
Debian Debian

This game is in the Debian repositories. The different versions of Debian (stable, testing, unstable and experimental) usually contain different versions of the game or some might not contain the game at all. To display Debian specific package information click on the link at the bottom of the each game page.

openSUSE openSUSE
Packman (SUSE) Packman (SUSE)

This game is in the Packman repositories. The Packman repository has a large and recent collection of game and other packages for openSUSE.

Ubuntu Ubuntu

This game is in the Ubuntu repositories. The different versions of Ubunut (gutsy, hardy and the upcoming intrepid) usually contain different versions of the game or some might not contain the game at all. To display Ubuntu specific package information click on the link at the bottom of the each game page.

Development
Abandoned

Unmaintained and no support by the developer and no significant community involvement.

Early development Early development

This project is in a generally early development stage but some parts are released and playable and because of the promising nature of the project it is listed here.

Funding
No release

No release jet, but a native Linux version is confirmed.

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