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Appographic Segment
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Description
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Appographic ID
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Action
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Requires players to use quick reflexes, accuracy, and timing to overcome obstacles. These games tend to have gameplay that emphasizes combat and fighting.
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66
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Adventure
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The player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of literary genres.
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67
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Arcade
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Games with short levels, simple and intuitive control schemes, and rapidly increasing difficulty. These games simulates the arcade environment where the player essentially 'rents' the game for as long as their in-game avatar can stay alive.
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69
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Archery
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Sports games that imitate archery. Some emphasize actually playing the sport, while others emphasize the strategy behind the sport.
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119
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Baseball
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Sports games that imitate baseball. Some emphasize actually playing the sport, while others emphasize the strategy behind the sport.
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110
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Basketball
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Sports games that imitate basketball. Some emphasize actually playing the sport, while others emphasize the strategy behind the sport.
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351
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Billiards and Snooker
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Sports games that imitate billiards and snooker. Some emphasize actually playing the sport, while others emphasize the strategy behind the sport.
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114
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Bingo
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Board games that imitate the playing of Bingo.
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136
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Board
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Computer-based games that simulate board games like monopoly, chess, checkers, and so on.
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70
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Bowling
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Sports games that imitate the playing of Bowling. Some emphasize actually playing the sport, while others emphasize the strategy behind the sport.
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131
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Boxing
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Sports games that imitate the playing of Boxing. Some emphasize actually playing the sport, while others emphasize the strategy behind the sport.
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116
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Bubble Shooter
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A casual game of the pattern-match genre with elements of puzzle and shooter
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121
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Card
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Any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played.
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71
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Card Battle
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Games with a central theme of card battling.
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68
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Casino
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Games that imitate the playing and environment of casino games
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72
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Casual
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Games targeted at, or used by, a mass audience of casual gamers.They typically have simple rules and do not require special skills to play.
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81
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Casual card games
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Card games that do not emphasise gambling. For example, UNO.
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438
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City construction
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Simulation game in which the player acts as an overall planner or leader to meet the needs and wants of game characters by initiating structures for food, shelter, health, spiritual care, economic growth, defences, and fortification.
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99
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Clan Based Games
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MMO games offering clan formation inside the game.
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142
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Clan battle
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MMO games offering clan battles inside the game.
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102
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Cricket
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Sports games that imitatecricket. Some emphasize actually playing the sport, while others emphasize the strategy behind the sport.
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111
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Dice
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Games that use or incorporate one or more dice as their sole or central component, usually as a random device.
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75
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Hidden Object
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A genre of puzzle video games, the player must find items on a list that are hidden within a picture.
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117
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Drawing
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Two players take turns in drawing a picture to convey a "guess-word" that the other partner has to guess.
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128
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Endless runner
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Also called infinite running games, these are are platform games in which the player's character continuously moves forward. Game controls are limited to making the character jump, attack, or perform special actions.
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80
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Fighting
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Game that emphasizes one-on-one combat between players, or between a character controlled by a player and one controlled by the game's AI.
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129
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Fishing
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Game in which the player fishes. Many feature a wide variety of locations in which to fish, fish to catch, and fishing equipment like fishing rods, lures, and boats.
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115
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Football
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Sports games that imitate football. Some emphasize actually playing the sport, while others emphasize the strategy behind the sport.
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108
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Golf
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Sports games that imitate golf. Some emphasize actually playing the sport, while others emphasize the strategy behind the sport
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113
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Guessing
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Game in which the objective is to guess information of some kind. The information could be a word, a phrase, a title, or the location of an object
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95
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Hack and Slash
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Type of action games where the focus is on violent combat rather than strategy.
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90
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Hunting
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Simulation video games that usually take place in a thick forest or meadow and involve hunting animals.
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103
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Jigsaw
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Tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of interlocking pieces that are sometimes oddly shaped, and sometimes symmetric.
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133
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Kids
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Games are targeted at the age group of 4-13 years.
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88
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Logos
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Quiz game that consists of guessing logo names.
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93
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Mahjong
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Mobile game based on the classic Chinese game, Mahjong.
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135
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Three Pattern Match
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Pattern Match games involve the player manipulating tiles to arrive at a matching criteria. The tiles disappear when the criteria is met. When the number of objects or tiles to be matched is three, the games are referred to as three pattern match.
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122
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Mini
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Short games that are often contained within another game.
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124
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MMO
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Also called MMO or MMOG, these are multiplayer games that are capable of supporting a large number of players simultaneously.
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141
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Monopoly
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Mobile adoption of successful board game, Monopoly.
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349
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Music
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A type of game that uses music (or rhythm) as an integral part of gameplay. This may involve pressing buttons in time with a song (whether on a conventional controller, an instrument controller, or some kind of dance mat) singing into a microphone, or creating original music.
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199
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NFL
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Games that imitate NFL. Some emphasize actually playing the sport, while others emphasize the strategy behind the sport.
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109
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Numbers
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Number puzzles. For example, 2048.
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98
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Open World
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Game in which a player can roam freely through a virtual world and is given considerable freedom in choosing how or when to approach objectives
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160
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Pattern Match
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Pattern Match games involve the player manipulating tiles to arrive at a matching criteria. The tiles disappear when the criteria is met. The criteria could be matching tiles with the same numbers or pictures, for example.
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123
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Pinball
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Arcade game that imitates Pinball.
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350
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Poker
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Family of card games involving betting and individual play.
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125
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Pong
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Games that imitate the playing of Pong. Some emphasize actually playing the sport, while others emphasize the strategy behind the sport.
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130
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Puzzle
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Puzzle video games are a genre of video games that emphasize puzzle solving. The types of puzzles can test many problem solving skills including logic, pattern recognition, sequence solving, and word completion.
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82
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Quiz
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Game in which players attempt to answer questions correctly.
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94
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Racing
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Game that simulates the racing experience.
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83
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Resource management
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Type of simulation game that requires players to collect the necessary resources needed for a particular task like city construction, upgrades, and so on.
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101
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Role Playing
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Game in which the player controls one or more characters, usually on some kind of quest.
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84
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Scrabble
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Letter arrangement word game.
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92
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Shooter
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Action game where the player takes control of a tiny airplane or ship and shoots down enemy fighters. They are often 2-D auto-scrolling games and are typically quite difficult- shots may come at you from all directions very quickly.
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89
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Short Session
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Games with short sessions or stages. For example, Subway Surfer.
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152
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Simulation
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Abbreviated as "sim," these games simulate an experience as realistically as possible. Common types of simulations are flight sims, driving games, farm sims, and so on.
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85
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Slots
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Games with the mobile version of a slot machine, a casino gambling machine with three or more reels that spin when a button is pushed.
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74
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Solitaire
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A group of single-player card games
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118
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Sports
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Games that imitate traditional physical sports. Some emphasize actually playing the sport, while others emphasize the strategy behind the sport.
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86
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Strategy
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Games that emphasizes resource management and planning. They are often war games, but other kinds of strategy games exist.
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87
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Stunts
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Games are associated with racing games (like Motocross) on stunt tracks.
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104
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Sudoku
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Sports games that imitates the playing of Sudoku.
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127
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Table Tennis
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Sports games that imitate the playing of Table tennis. Some emphasize actually playing the sport, while others emphasize the strategy behind the sport.
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137
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Tennis
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Games that imitate tennis. Some emphasize actually playing the sport, while others emphasize the strategy behind the sport.
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443
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Tetris
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Arcade game imitating Tetris.
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132
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Tower Defense
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Game involving enemies crossing from one side of the battlefield to another. In order to prevent them from reaching their destination, the player has to create "towers" and "destroy" the enemies.
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73
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Train
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Simulation game that imitates driving a train..
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120
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Trivia
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A quiz game that involves obscure facts.
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65
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Virtual pet
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Simulation game focussing on the care, raising, breeding, or exhibition of simulated pets.
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126
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Word
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Games based on words and letters. For example, Scrabble, Words with Friends, and so on.
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64
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Word search
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Word game where words, usually related to a particular theme, are hidden in a grid of jumbled letters. The objective of the game is to find and mark all the hidden words.
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91
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Anime
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Games that include anime are adaptations of video games or whose characters originated in video games.Japanese video games. Anime characters have a distinctive look and feel and are most popular in Japan and China
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207
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Aquarium
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Simulation game replicating an actual aquarium. Players can keep fish, feed them, and watch them virtually grow.
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192
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Bakery
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Simulations game imitating the activities that happen in bakery. These games are popular with children.
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191
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Christmas
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Games with a Christmas festival theme. These games are popular with children.
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188
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Classic
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Replica or Classic games from the early video game era of around the 1990s.
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184
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Cooking
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Simulation game that imitates kitchen activities. These games are popular with children.
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353
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Crime and Mafia
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Games involving the Mafia, gangs, and/or organized crime as a significant part of its plot or settings.
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206
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Dating
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A subgenre of simulation games, with romantic elements. The most common objective of dating games sims is to date, usually choosing from among several characters, and to achieve a romantic relationship.
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173
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Doctor
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Sim games intended for kids that imitates the activities done by doctors. For example: Dentist, Surgery, General check-up.
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209
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Dragons
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Games that strongly feature dragons. Here, the player's character may a dragon, or a dragon may the primary enemy.
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216
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Dress-up
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Game involving dressing up, usually to impersonate someone or something, like an animal or character in a fairy tale. The type of clothes available in these games varies on who the player is trying to dress up as. It could be adult clothing, or special play clothes designed for dress-up like boa feathers and costume jewelry.
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175
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Dungeon
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Fantasy game where which players have to navigate a labyrinth-like dark environment (a "dungeon"), battling various monsters, and looting treasure.
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198
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Fantasy
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Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary plot element, theme. It can also have a theme background of Ancient myth stories like Spartans and Greek.
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180
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Farm
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farming simulation social network game.Its gameplay involves various aspects of farm management such as plowing land, planting, growing, and harvesting crops, harvesting trees and raising livestock
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203
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Fashion
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Sim games intended for girls emulating fashion
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177
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3D Graphics
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Games offering 3-dimension Graphics
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219
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Greek
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Games depicting the ancient Greek cultural(Look and feel) theme
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186
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Home design
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Simulation game to design & decorate virtual home with best 3d looking furniture and other items.
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176
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Horror
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Subgenre of action-adventure video games which draws heavily upon the conventions of horror fiction.
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182
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Hospital
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Sim games intended for kids that imitates the activities that happen in Hospital.
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205
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Kitchen
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Sim games intended for kids that imitates the cooking activity
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189
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Medieval
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Games depicting the Middle Ages, or having some sort of a medieval theme.
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178
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Monsters
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Games which strongly feature Monsters. This includes games where the player character is a monster, or where a monster is the primary antagonist or enemy variant.
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211
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Motocross
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A motocross Bike racing game.
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187
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Office
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Casual Game with office theme
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354
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Pixel Graphic
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Games having Pixel-based graphics. For example, Flappy Bird
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217
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Restaurant
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Sim games intended for kids that imitates the activities that happen in Restaurant
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194
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Sci-fi
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Sci-fi is a genre of fiction/fantacy dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life.
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170
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Space
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Space is a genre of fiction/fantacy dealing with imaginative content such as Alien life, space
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183
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Spartan
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Games depicting the ancient Spartan cultural(Look and feel) theme.
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185
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Survival
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Survival games focus on fear and last-man-standing concepts via traditional horror fiction elements such as atmospherics, death, the undead, blood and gore
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172
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TV Show
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Mobile games based on television series
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196
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Blood and Gore
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ction game containing violence and minimal blood
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202
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War
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Action-adventure games having war based theme.
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179
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Zombies
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Action-adventure games that are heavly centered on Zombies attack theme.
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208
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Chess
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A Mobile chess game based on rules of chess
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112
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