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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Amnesia: The Dark Descent (Frictional Games, 8 September 2010) is a first-person survival horror game set in 1839 Prussia; weaponless protagonist Daniel hides from monsters while managing lantern light and sanity. Won 2011 IGF awards; remaster planned for late 2026.
Among the Sleep
Among the Sleep: first-person psychological horror adventure by Norway's Krillbite Studio, played as a two-year-old. Kickstarter-funded ($248,358), released May 29, 2014; Enhanced Edition 2017; over 1 million copies sold.
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a 2019 third-person open-world survival game by Panache Digital Games, published by Private Division, guiding a hominid clan through Neogene Africa from 10 to 2 million years ago via neuronal, generational, and evolutionary progression.
Anno 1404
Anno 1404, released in North America as Dawn of Discovery, is a 2009 city-building and economic simulation game developed by Related Designs and published by Ubisoft.
Anno 1602
Anno 1602: Creation of a New World (1602 A.D. in North America) is a 1998 real-time city-building strategy game by Max Design and Sunflowers, the first Anno game, set on the island world of Anker; Germany's best-selling game with over a million copies sold.
Anno 1800
Anno 1800 is a 2019 city-building and real-time strategy game by Ubisoft Blue Byte set in the Industrial Revolution, with tiered population needs, production chains, Old World and New World maps, trade routes, and DLC seasons; Metacritic 81/100.
Anno 2205
Anno 2205 is a 2015 city-building and economic simulation game by Blue Byte and Ubisoft, in which the player colonizes the Moon to end an energy crisis.
Arcade game
An arcade game is a usually coin-operated game machine, which may be mechanical, electronic, or video-based; US arcades peaked at about 10,000 in 1982 before the 1983 crash.
Arknights (明日方舟)
Arknights (明日方舟) is a 2019 free-to-play anime tower defense gacha mobile game by Shanghai's Hypergryph, published globally by Yostar from January 2020; set on Terra, it passed $700M revenue by 2021 and spawned the anime Prelude to Dawn and the 2026 spin-off Arknights: Endfield.
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon is a 2023 FromSoftware mech action game published by Bandai Namco, the first Armored Core since Verdict Day (2013), set on Rubicon 3 and built around Assembly customization and the ACS stagger system.
Assetto Corsa
Assetto Corsa: 2014 Kunos Simulazioni PC racing simulator (Steam Early Access 2013), laser-scanned circuits, advanced tyre model, huge modding scene, 20M+ franchise users; sibling title Assetto Corsa Competizione.
Astral Chain
Astral Chain is a 2019 action-adventure game by PlatinumGames, published by Nintendo for the Switch on August 30, 2019, where an officer and a tethered Legion fight extradimensional chimeras in a near-future megacity.
Asura's Wrath (アスラズ ラース)
Asura's Wrath (アスラズ ラース) is a 2012 action game for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Capcom, about a banished demigod's revenge.
Auto battler
An auto battler, also called auto chess, is a strategy game genre where players draft units and watch fights resolve automatically. It emerged from a 2019 Dota 2 mod.
Avowed
Avowed is a 2025 first-person fantasy action RPG by Obsidian Entertainment, set in Eora's Living Lands from Pillars of Eternity, released February 18, 2025 by Xbox Game Studios for PC and Xbox, later PS5, with mixed-positive reception.
Back 4 Blood
Back 4 Blood is a cooperative first-person zombie shooter developed by Turtle Rock Studios and released in 2021, a spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead with a rogue-lite card system.
Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate is a Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms RPG franchise begun by BioWare in 1998 on the Infinity Engine, continued in Baldur's Gate II (2000), and revived by Larian's 2023 Baldur's Gate 3, which sold over 20 million copies and swept Game of the Year awards.
Baldur's Gate (video game)
Baldur's Gate (1998) is a BioWare computer RPG published by Interplay under Black Isle, set in D&D's Forgotten Realms on the Infinity Engine; it sold about 1.5 million copies, revived the Western RPG, and spawned Baldur's Gate II and the Enhanced Editions.
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance is a 2001 Snowblind Studios action RPG for PS2, Xbox, GameCube, and GBA, set in D&D's Forgotten Realms, with two-player local co-op, three classes, and a 2021 4K re-release.
Bastion (video game)
Bastion is Supergiant Games' 2011 debut action RPG, an action role-playing game with reactive narration by Logan Cunningham, Darren Korb's 'acoustic frontier trip-hop' score, and Jen Zee's art.
Battle royale game
Battle royale game: multiplayer genre where dozens to hundreds of players scavenge, fight inside a shrinking safe area, and win as last one standing; grew from Brendan Greene's 2013 Arma 2 mod into PUBG, Fortnite, Apex Legends, and Warzone.
Battleborn (video game)
Battleborn: Gearbox Software's hero shooter, an FPS/MOBA hybrid with 25 launch heroes and a story campaign, released May 3, 2016, overshadowed by Overwatch and shut down in January 2021.
Bayonetta
Bayonetta (ベヨネッタ): 2009 PlatinumGames action game directed by Hideki Kamiya, published by Sega; witch heroine, Bullet Arts, Witch Time, Wicked Weaves; spawned Bayonetta 2, 3, and Origins.
Bayonetta (ベヨネッタ) (video game)
Bayonetta (ベヨネッタ) is a 2009 PlatinumGames action game published by Sega, directed by Hideki Kamiya, starring a witch hunting angels with Bullet Arts, Witch Time, and hair magic; ports span Wii U, Steam, Switch, and PS4.
Beat 'em up
Beat 'em up, also called brawler, is a video game genre where players fight waves of enemies while moving through side-scrolling stages, distinct from one-on-one fighting games.
Beat Saber
Beat Saber: VR rhythm game by Beat Games (Prague, formerly Hyperbolic Magnetism), Early Access May 2018, acquired by Facebook's Oculus in 2019. Players slash color-coded blocks with sabers; scoring rewards swing form, not timing; 6M+ users, top-grossing VR app.
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is a 2003 PC truck racing game by Stellar Stone, published by Game Mill, infamous as one of the worst games ever: immobile opponent, no collisions, "You're Winner!". Re-released on Steam in 2025 by Margarite Entertainment.
Biomutant
Biomutant (バイオミュータント) is a 2021 open-world post-apocalyptic action RPG by Sweden's Experiment 101, published by THQ Nordic; martial arts combat, mutations, crafting, six tribes, two endings, later PS5, Series, and Switch versions.
Black (video game)
Black (2006) is a single-player first-person shooter by Criterion Games, published by EA for PS2 and Xbox on February 28, 2006, known for destructible environments, weapon feel, and Metacritic scores of 77–79.
Black & White (video game)
Black & White (Lionhead Studios, EA, March 2001) is a PC god game set in Eden, known for its reinforcement-learning Creature AI, good/evil alignment system, Metacritic 90, 2.5 million PC sales, Creature Isle expansion, Black & White 2, and unavailability on digital stores.