Game Genres

Genre name		Genres example	Genre description
Third person Strategy		Strategy games are games similar to the style of play in chess, the game is all about making the right decision and taking risks, most strategy games are played in a god like view were you look down on the map and what you’re doing these games usually have long play times, and can last from 30 minutes to a couple of hours. An example of a strategy game is Company Of Heroes, a strategy game about WW2 combat. Strategy games can be a combat strategy or adventure strategy, these games are similar in style of play but different in the objective, combat strategy are games which are mainly aimed around war are and fighting the enemy to get an objective for example company of heroes has multiple games types like conquest where you play to capture and hold certain positions.  Annihilation in company of heroes is a game mode where the objective is to kill the enemy completely including their home base, hence the name. Adventure strategy are similar in the look of the game meaning you still play in a bird’s eye view overlooking the map, however the game objective is different an example of this type of strategy is banished a survival adventure game where you control a small settlement in the wild and you must keep the settlement stable unlike in company of heroes where you a fighting against an enemy AI, in banished you are fighting against problems such as starvation and disease. in banished you must thrive and sustain the settlement you have made, you encounter problems such as fires and starvation where you must tackle these problems by taking risks, much like how you take risks in other strategy games. Most strategy games are PC only.	The audience of Strategy games is more aimed towards older gamers although some younger gamers also play strategy, rather than the younger teen audience which are more likely to play games such as fps or adventure types. The audience is mostly older gamers because most strategy games require more skill and time, a lot of young gamers don’t want to sit and play games for hours and prefer shorter games. However survival strategy games are more susceptible to younger audiences as survival games have recently become more popular on the market. this results in younger audiences playing survival strategy games rather than combat strategy games however a lot of first person strategy games are played by all age audiences, games such as world of tanks where strategy is needed in a first person style of play where you must destroy the opposing team in tanks, is more common amongst younger audiences than third person strategy.
Puzzle Games	Puzzle games are found on all main platforms such as mobile console and pc. One puzzle like game which was recently big on the mobile market was candy crush a game which is not as difficult in solving stuff as other puzzle games however it still requires you to be fairly good at quick problem solving and requires quick reflexes. The aim of candy crush is to swipe identical candies together in rows of three (candies cannot be swiped diagonally), this results in more candy falling down from the top of the screen, the action is similar to Tetris however you must swipe to get rid of the gems. You keep swiping the gems until you hit the points needed to progress to the next level, there is a time at the bottom which decreases constantly and refills a bit when candies are swiped, if you cannot find candy to swipe before the time runs out it game over. If you hit the point limit objective you progress to the next level. Other popular puzzle games include portal series portal is a futuristic puzzle game. The game is about you completing tests in a room, to get to the next room. The game has a sense of maze game mixed in with the puzzle aspect, in the game you use a portal gun which can fire two oval portals which you can then walk through, the game starts of very simple with little difficulty and gradually progress’s to extremely difficult levels. Portal unlike candy crush is has a story, the aim of the game is to complete all the levels and rooms until you reach the last room where you meet the robot whose voice has been guiding you through the game, in the end you must kill the robot called Galdos.		Puzzle games don’t have a set audience at all any age group, or gender can play puzzle games in fact most games people play somewhere involves a puzzle and will involve trying to solve the puzzle, games such as action adventures have many puzzles within the game. Candy crush is a game that went viral in 2012 and most players of the game are women mostly older women in 30s and 40s. The game surpassed Farmville 2 as the most popular game on Facebook with an average 46 million active users per month. Candy crush is not as big in the younger market of teens and young adults. As it is in the older audience, most young females do not play as much as the older audience and very few males play the game. However portal was a very popular amongst gamers mainly male audiences as there are not as many female console gamers as the game was only ported for console and PC. Portal was very popular through both the console and PC market making 4 million sales in the first year of release. Puzzle games are games which are require intensive analysis of the situation or quick reflexes.
Horror		Horror games have only in recent years become popular on the market and are most common on the PC market. One popular horror game is Amnesia. Amnesia a machine for pigs is popular on the PC market, amnesia Is based around several interlocking stories. You as the player switch between past and present gameplay. The game is set in London on new year’s eve in the year 1899, you play as the character Oswald Mandus. Who has awakened from a coma/fever, throughout the game you hear the voices of Mandus’s children he then receives a phone call informing him that his children are trapped underground him in the machine which mandus created, the objective of the game then is to find your children you encounter various monsters such as man pigs deformed swine like men that guard the depths of the machine. The game features jump scares and sick graphic imagery, mandus must reactivate the machine to save his children, eventually after reactivating the machine mandus is regains his memory and the engineer betrays him by releasing all the man pigs out into the streets of London to catch people and feed them to the machine. Mandus eventually realizes his sons died in the battle of the Somme in ww1 (this is where the past and present comes into place and makes the game really confusing for the gamer) mandus so mandus decided to kill his children in the machine to stop them dying in the Somme. He realizes his mistake and decides to sacrifice himself (the player) into the machine to destroy in which ends the horror described above as it never happens	The target audience for horror is mostly young adult males and teenage males, the reason for this is because most male gamers prefer to get a scare out of game and can stand horror unlike how women or young children may not. Horror games are mostly either a few 16+ games but most are 18+ age ratings Amnesia machine for pigs was not as successful as the first amnesia however it still sold a considerable amount of sales Horror games are games which are designed to scare the audience and give keep them tense and never board. Most horror games have the common jump scares and loud sounds which will scare the player
Shooter		Battlefield 4 is a popular shooter currently, the games story is not as interactive and as deep as the opposing call of duty stories are. However battlefield 4 is a game which is designed heavily for multiplayer. The game is an enjoyable experience most of the time. Working together to defeat the other team and heavy co-operation between players is what’s unique with battlefield as a shooter in call of duty you rarely see FPS games which can involve that type of team work. It also helps as in battlefield 4 you have squad spawn which can be used to spawn on a player in your squad, there is a maximum 5 players to a squad. The gameplay is medium paste , unlike call of duty where one player can win the game battlefield requires the entire team to be fairly good at the game, if you have a good squad of 5 all equipped with the right equipment such as , support like an LMG to provide suppression and ammo. Anti-air and anti-tank which an engineer can give, a medic which can heal squad members. However with all multiplayer games you will have cheaters, hackers are fairly common in battlefield lag switches can be used to disrupt the gameplay for everyone resulting in an unplayable experience. There are also a few bugs in the game such as gun sights not rendering properly.	FPS or first person shooter, is a game which is your standard shooter in a first person view. First person shooters have become extremely popular since the release of call of duty franchise in 2003, ever since then shooters have become frequently released every year some popular names such as battlefield, destiny, and titan fall. Frist person shooters audiences are varied, although most shooters have an 18+ age rating it is still very common to encounter under 18s playing the game. Apart from that first person shooters are played by many ages and genders
Racing		Most popular racing games are based around track races a couple examples include Gran Turismo and Forza, Forza is a track racing game for the xbox 360 and Xbox One, the game is in my opinion significantly more realistic than Gran Turismo and is more  aesthetically pleasing, the game is also less buggy than Gran Turismo. Gran Turismo which was first released in 1997 was one of the best racing games on the market, however since then other games such as Forza Horizon and the upcoming The Crew are more popular mostly because people are bored of the standard driving simiulator, after years of racing games all just repeating themselves with the same concept on a differnent track, people have become bored with them now action/adventure racing games are becoming more popular, forza horizon is more rally/street racing and contains special abilities such as rewindable perks in races encase you crash. The Crew is similar in the fact that it is off road and yourself and other players must race across The United States, as well as evading police, the game also contains other types of game modes yet to be revealed	Racing games are not as big on the market as some other genres such as shooters, although they are fairly common amongst most gamers. Racing games can range from sorts such as rally cars, track cars, or formula one. Many games also implement races into their games such as Grand Theft Auto. Racing games have no set audiences as there is no age limiting factors in racing games as they do not include violence or other controversial topics. Racing games is accepted among all gender and ages. Racing games unlike most games usually do not have a story and is a unlock to gain play style where you complete races to gain more upgrades for your vehicle and unlock more races until you have completed all the races.
Rpg Role playing game		One Example of a RPG game is The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim. this is the fifth title in the series of The Elder Scrolls. Skyrim was released on PS3, XBOX360, PC  in 2011. The game start out in the fictional continent of tamreil, In the province of Skyrim, Your unnamed character is being escorted to Helgen a small village for you execution, with you are captured Rebel militia who are fighting the Imperials, A legion which have conquered almost the entire of Tamriel. Your character which the player can customise including changing races, is about to revieve a deadly blow from the headsman when a dragon attack causing chaos in the village. you escape to find out dragon have come back from the end world, and are causing havok over the province. The player is set with the task of sending the dragons back to the end world, after he finds out he is a dragonborn, a power which enables him to speak dragons tongue giving him the powers of a dragon. The player must set out on a huge quest to complete his task at hand, whilst dealing with other problems such as bandit-ism, helping other people and trying to end the waging civil war between the native militia stormcloaks and the imperial empire.	Role Playing Games or RPG is where the player, acts the role of a character in a fictional setting, players also follow a sequences of development either in character development or the story line.
Simulator		Sims 3, The Sims 3 standing for simulator 3, attempts to act out the life of your own custom made person, the game is started by creating your character and siblings (optional), from here on the game is pretty simple, The player acts out everyday life, However of course with alot of exaggeration, your sim can go to the life of crime or become a rich celebrity, the game continues like this until you Sim dies, which is when you then move on to another sibling.	A simulation game or simulator game attempts to act out real life task and problems in the format of a video game, simulators can range anywhere form piloting simulators all the way to sitting simulators. Simulators are one of the least common genres on the market and only have recently become popular due to YouTube game commentators playing them.
sandbox		Rust is a example of a sandbox game in alpha development which is fairly popular on the market,The game is a multi player only game. The player starts out by waking up in the wilderness; the setting of the game is not fully known as of now,but the game location is unnamed, the world is filled with nothing but animals some which have radiation poisoning, and destroyed shacks and concrete huts, many people believe the game is set after a nuclear fallout and that 'man' has started again. after the player has woken his main objective is to survive and thrive, this includes making a base, finding a sustainable amount of food, Providing protection for yourself and making community's or waging war	Sandbox games or more commonly called open world games, are games which have no real objective, as the player makes up their own objective, and is just a fiction world which the player has no limits in.
Arcade		Pacman is a classic arcade game first released in 1980 during the rise of video games, pacman has ultimatley the grandfathers of video games. The objective behind the game is to collect white coins inside a maze by moving into them to get the yellow circle character called Pacman to eat them, the player must avoid four ghosts who chase Pacman round the map while still collecting the coins there are four white blinking dots on the corners of the maze called enigizers which if collected means pacman can eat the ghosts who will now run from him once a ghost is eaten they are locked away in the middle until a set timer converts them back into there normal selves who will chase pacman again.if all coins are collected the player moves onto the next stage which is to repeat the exact procedure how ever the ghosts are quicker and faster each time you progress through the stages the difficulty increases.There is a max level limit with the game, level 256 is a bugged split screen level caused by an error in coding, this causes the game to be in completable on the original version  -Level 256 coding bug on Pacman	Arcade games are simply fast paced action games, usually requiring fast reflexes and good hand eye co-ordination.