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Napoleon: Total War
Napoleon: Total War (Total War: NAPOLEON) is a 2010 Creative Assembly/SEGA PC strategy game, a standalone follow-up to Empire: Total War covering Napoleon's Italian, Egyptian, Peninsular, and Grand Campaigns with historical battles like Waterloo.
NBA 2K
NBA 2K, annual basketball simulation video game series by Visual Concepts, published by Sega (1999) then 2K/Take-Two; debuted on Dreamcast November 10, 1999 to rival EA's NBA Live; known for MyCareer, MyTEAM, The City, and ProPLAY.
Need for Speed (2015 video game)
Need for Speed (2015) is Ghost Games' reboot, the series' 20th main entry, released November 3, 2015 on PS4 and Xbox One. Night-only Ventura Bay street racing, Five Ways to Play, live-action cutscenes, always-online requirement, mixed reviews.
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010 video game)
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010) is a Criterion Games-developed arcade racer for EA, released November 16, 2010, reviving cops-versus-racers chases in Seacrest County and introducing the Autolog network; it scored 88 on Metacritic and was remastered in 2020.
Need for Speed: ProStreet
Need for Speed: ProStreet is a 2007 racing game by EA Black Box, the eleventh in the series, built around legal race-day events and realistic damage.
Need for Speed: Undercover
Need for Speed: Undercover (2008), twelfth NFS game by EA Black Box. Open-world racer set in Tri-City Bay with an undercover-cop story, Heroic Driving Engine, and police pursuits; Metacritic 64, mixed reception.
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.
Neverwinter Nights
Neverwinter Nights is a 2002 BioWare role-playing game published by Infogrames, using Dungeons & Dragons third edition rules and shipping with a toolset for building custom modules.
Neverwinter Nights 2
Neverwinter Nights 2 (NWN2) is Obsidian Entertainment's 2006 Atari-published D&D Forgotten Realms RPG sequel to BioWare's Neverwinter Nights, with the King of Shadows campaign, 3.5 rules, and expansions Mask of the Betrayer, Storm of Zehir, and Mysteries of Westgate.
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.
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (二ノ国 白き聖灰の女王) is Level-5's 2011 PS3 JRPG made with Studio Ghibli, music by Joe Hisaishi; boy Oliver and fairy Drippy fight Shadar, collect familiars; remastered 2019.
Ninja Gaiden (2004 video game)
Ninja Gaiden (2004) is Team Ninja's Xbox 3D action game starring Ryu Hayabusa, directed by Tomonobu Itagaki. Metascore 91, 1.23 million sold, famed for extreme difficulty; updated as Ninja Gaiden Black (2005) and Sigma (2007).
Nioh (仁王)
Nioh (仁王) is a 2017 Team Ninja/Koei Tecmo action RPG for PS4, set in demon-haunted 1600 Japan with William Adams; Ki Pulse combat, Dark Souls influence, spawned Nioh 2 and Nioh 3.
Nioh 2
Nioh 2 (仁王2) is Team Ninja's masocore action RPG, released March 12, 2020 for PS4 and later PS5 and PC, set in Sengoku Japan; its half-yokai protagonist uses Ki Pulse, stances, Burst Counter, Soul Cores, and Yokai Shift. Metacritic 85.
No More Heroes (ノーモア★ヒーローズ) (video game)
No More Heroes (ノーモア★ヒーローズ) is a 2007 Grasshopper Manufacture Wii hack-and-slash by Suda51, following otaku assassin Travis Touchdown's beam-katana rise to UAA rank #1 in Santa Destroy; HD-remastered on PC and Switch in 2020-2021.
Observer (video game)
Observer (>observer) is a 2017 first-person psychological horror game by Bloober Team, set in 2084 Krakow, where detective Daniel Lazarski, voiced by Rutger Hauer, hacks minds with the Dream Eater; System Redux remaster followed in 2020.
Octopath Traveler
Octopath Traveler (オクトパストラベラー) is Square Enix and Acquire's 2018 Nintendo Switch HD-2D JRPG: eight travelers with separate stories on Orsterra, Break and Boost turn-based combat, Path Actions, and a job system.
Odin Sphere (オーディンスフィア)
Odin Sphere (オーディンスフィア) is Vanillaware's 2007 PlayStation 2 side-scrolling action RPG, a spiritual successor to Princess Crown, published by Atlus, with five interwoven Psypher-weapon protagonists, phozon-based leveling, and a 2016 HD remake, Odin Sphere Leifthrasir.
Onimusha: Warlords
Onimusha: Warlords is a 2001 survival horror action-adventure game by Capcom for the PlayStation 2, in which the samurai Samanosuke Akechi rescues Princess Yuki from demons.
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.
Open world
Open world (also sandbox) game design: players freely roam a large virtual world and choose when to pursue objectives. Traces to Colossal Cave Adventure (1976) and Elite (1984); GTA III (2001) defined the 3D form; market projected at $67.26B by 2035.
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.
Overcooked 2
Overcooked! 2 (2018) is a chaotic co-op cooking game by Ghost Town Games and Team17, sequel to Overcooked. Adds online multiplayer for up to four players, food throwing, and dynamic shifting kitchens; Metacritic 81.
Overwatch (video game)
Overwatch (Overwatch 2 since October 2022): Blizzard's team-based hero shooter with tank, damage, and support roles, born from the cancelled $80M Project Titan, a $1B+ loot-box pioneer, city-franchise Overwatch League, and a 5v5 free-to-play battle-pass pivot.
Paladins (video game)
Paladins: Champions of the Realm, free-to-play fantasy 5v5 hero shooter by Evil Mojo Games/Hi-Rez Studios; open beta September 16, 2016, full release May 8, 2018; card-based champion customization; esports ended 2021, maintenance mode since February 2025.
Papers, Please
Papers, Please (Arstotzka) is Lucas Pope's August 8, 2013 indie dystopian document thriller: an immigration inspector in fictional communist Arstotzka, 1982, checks papers under daily rules, feeds a family, and faces 20 endings; acclaimed (Metacritic 85) and widely used in ethics and law teaching.
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.
Path of Exile
Path of Exile (流放之路) is a free-to-play online action RPG by New Zealand's Grinding Gear Games, released 23 October 2013, set in Wraeclast, known for its 1,500+ node passive skill tree, socketed skill gems, barter economy, and 13-week league cycle.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker
Pathfinder: Kingmaker is Owlcat Games' 2018 isometric CRPG, the first set in Paizo's Pathfinder universe, set in the Stolen Lands of Golarion with real-time-with-pause combat, later turn-based mode, and kingdom management.