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Just Dance 2017
Just Dance 2017 is Ubisoft's 2016 dance rhythm game, the first in the series on PC and a Switch launch title, with 40+ tracks, Just Dance Machine mode, and Just Dance Unlimited; its online servers closed in 2023.
Just Dance 2018
Just Dance 2018 is Ubisoft's dancing game released October 24, 2017 on PS4, Xbox One, Switch, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and Wii U, with over 40 new songs, a three-month Just Dance Unlimited trial, a Kids mode, and a Metacritic score of 71.
Just Dance 2019
Just Dance 2019 is Ubisoft's tenth annual dance rhythm game, released October 23, 2018 on Switch, PS4, Xbox One, Wii U, Wii, and Xbox 360, with 40 new songs, Kids and Sweat modes, and Just Dance Unlimited streaming.
Just Dance 2021
Just Dance 2021 is Ubisoft's 2020 rhythm dance game, released November 12, 2020 on Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and Stadia, and November 24 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, with 40 new songs and the Just Dance Unlimited streaming service.
Just Dance 2022
Just Dance 2022 is Ubisoft's dance rhythm game released November 4, 2021 for Switch, PS4/PS5, Xbox, and Stadia, with 40 new tracks, Sweat/Co-op/Kids/World Dance Floor modes, six-player phone tracking, and the Just Dance Unlimited subscription, later replaced by Just Dance+.
Just Dance 3
Just Dance 3 (2011) is Ubisoft's third Just Dance rhythm game and the first released beyond Wii, on Xbox 360 Kinect, PlayStation 3 Move, and Wii, adding Just Create choreography, four-player Kinect play, and about 40 songs.
Just Dance 4
Just Dance 4 is Ubisoft's 2012 dance rhythm game, the fourth main series entry, released October 2012 on Wii, Xbox 360 Kinect, and PS3 Move, and November 18, 2012 as a Wii U launch title, with over 40 tracks, Battle and Just Sweat modes, and Metacritic 77.
Lineage II (리니지 II)
Lineage II (리니지 II), also called Lineage 2, is NCSoft's fantasy MMORPG set in Aden, launched in Korea October 2003 and North America April 2004, known for open-world PvP, karma penalties, clans, and castle sieges.
List of battle royale games
The list of battle royale games covers the genre's defining titles, from mod origins through PUBG, Fortnite Battle Royale, Apex Legends, and Call of Duty: Warzone.
Lost Ark (로스트아크) (video game)
Lost Ark (로스트아크) is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online action role-playing game by Smilegate RPG, launched in South Korea in 2018 and worldwide by Amazon Games in 2022.
MapleStory 2 (메이플스토리2)
MapleStory 2 (메이플스토리2) was Nexon's free-to-play 3D voxel MMORPG sequel to MapleStory, launched in Korea in 2015 and globally in October 2018 with a cosmetic-only cash shop; global service closed May 27, 2020, Korea in 2025.
Massively multiplayer online game
Massively multiplayer online game (MMO, MMORPG): persistent online worlds for hundreds or thousands of simultaneous players, from MUD1 (1978) and EverQuest to World of Warcraft (12 million subscribers, ~$9.2 billion revenue); covers sharding, instancing, virtual economies, gold farming, and subscription versus free-to-play models.
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game): persistent online role-playing worlds descended from MUD1 (1978), Ultima Online, EverQuest, and World of Warcraft; known for guilds, subscription and free-to-play monetization, and client-server architectures.
Microsoft Entertainment Pack
Microsoft Entertainment Pack, also known as Windows Entertainment Pack, is a series of casual game compilations Microsoft released for 16-bit Windows between 1990 and 1992, bundling games like Minesweeper, Tetris, and FreeCell.
Microsoft Solitaire Collection
Microsoft Solitaire Collection, released July 28, 2012 by Microsoft Game Studios and developed by Arkadium, bundles Klondike, Spider, FreeCell, Pyramid, and TriPeaks with daily challenges and Xbox achievements; free with ads, Premium subscription removes them.
Mobile game
Mobile game: video game played on smartphones, tablets, and phones. From 1997 Nokia Snake through J2ME and the 2008 App Store to a $100B+ free-to-play market with in-app purchases.
Multi-user dungeon
Multi-user dungeon (MUD, also Dimension/Domain): persistent real-time multiplayer text virtual world, created 1978 by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle at Essex University; ancestor of MMORPGs, with codebase families LPMud, DikuMUD, TinyMUD, MOO.
Multiplayer video game
Multiplayer video game: games where multiple people play together or against each other, competitively or cooperatively, online or co-located. From Spacewar! (1962) to rollback netcode, toxicity research, and ESA play statistics.
Neverwinter (video game)
Neverwinter (2013) is Cryptic Studios' free-to-play action MMORPG set in the Forgotten Realms city of Neverwinter, based on Dungeons & Dragons; announced 2010 as a co-op RPG, launched on PC June 20, 2013, later on PS4 and Xbox One, known for its Foundry user-content tool and 30+ modules.
New World (video game)
New World (New World: Aeternum) is Amazon Games' MMORPG launched on PC September 28, 2021, set on the supernatural island of Aeternum; over 900,000 peak Steam concurrent players, later released on PS5 and Xbox.
Online game
Online game: a video game played over a network, also called networked or multiplayer gaming. Spans postal and telegraph chess, BBS and MUD games, CompuServe's MegaWars (1982), MMORPGs like World of Warcraft, Xbox Live (2002), and mobile titles, built on client-server or peer-to-peer architectures.
Osu!
Osu! is a free-to-win, open-source rhythm game by peppy, publicly released September 17, 2007, with four game modes (osu!, taiko, catch, mania), community beatmaps, and pp-based global ranking.
Party game
Party game: social games with simple group rules, from charades and Truth or Dare to the video game genre defined by Mario Party (N64, 1999, Hudson Soft), board-game play plus minigames; 23.4% of internet users 16+ play monthly.
Party video game
A party video game is a video game played by a group in one place or online, with simple rules and short rounds anyone can learn in minutes.
Phantasy Star Online
Phantasy Star Online (PSO) is Sonic Team's December 2000 Dreamcast action RPG, the first online console RPG, set on planet Ragol with Pioneer 2 hub, hunter classes, Diablo-style loot, later ports, and surviving private servers.
Phantasy Star Online 2
Phantasy Star Online 2 (PSO2) is Sega's free-to-play online action RPG, launched Japan July 2012, with class-switching, Photon Arts, episodic content, an 8-year-delayed 2020 Western release, and the 2021 New Genesis overhaul; 12 million registered users and ¥100 billion revenue.
PlanetSide 2
PlanetSide 2: free-to-play MMOFPS launched November 20, 2012 by Sony Online Entertainment, now under Toadman Interactive. Three factions (Terran Republic, New Conglomerate, Vanu Sovereignty) fight for Auraxis across four 8x8 km continents on the ForgeLight engine.
Poker Night 2
Poker Night 2 (Telltale Games, 2013) is a crossover poker video game, sequel to Poker Night at the Inventory, playing Texas Hold'em and Omaha against Sam, Claptrap, Ash, and Brock with GLaDOS dealing; delisted in 2018.
Poker Night at the Inventory
Poker Night at the Inventory is a 2010 Telltale Games Texas Hold'em game starring Max, Strong Bad, Tycho, and TF2's Heavy, delisted after Telltale's bankruptcy and remastered by Skunkape Games in March 2026.
Purble Place
Purble Place: three-game educational puzzle collection (Purble Pairs, Comfy Cakes, Purble Shop) by Oberon Media, led by Jane Jensen, bundled with Windows Vista (2007) and Windows 7, removed in Windows 8 (2012).