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Black Widow (video game)
Black Widow is Atari's 1982 color vector arcade twin-stick shooter, also known as a Gravitar conversion kit, in which a spider defends a web from insects using two joysticks; remade as Black Widow: Recharged in 2021.
Blade & Soul (블레이드 앤 소울)
Blade & Soul (블레이드 앤 소울) is NCSOFT's wuxia martial-arts PC MMORPG, released in Korea June 2012, China 2013, the West 2016; known for fighting-game-style action combat, arena PvP, and spin-offs Blade & Soul 2, Revolution, NEO, and Heroes.
Blair Witch (video game)
Blair Witch (2019) is a first-person psychological horror game by Bloober Team, published by Lionsgate Games, released August 30, 2019 on Xbox One and PC. Ex-cop Ellis and dog Bullet search Black Hills Forest; camcorder puzzles, tracked endings, Metacritic 69.
Blood (video game)
Blood is a 1997 MS-DOS horror first-person shooter by Monolith Productions on the Build engine, starring undead gunslinger Caleb versus the demon Tchernobog; expansions Plasma Pak and Cryptic Passage, sequel Blood II, remastered as Fresh Supply (2019) and Refreshed Supply (2025).
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (1996) is a top-down action-adventure RPG by Silicon Knights, published by Crystal Dynamics, launching the Legacy of Kain series. Vampire Kain hunts the Circle of Nine across Nosgoth, feeding on blood; re-released 2024 on PS Plus, Evercade, and GOG.
Bloodborne
Bloodborne: 2015 FromSoftware action RPG for PS4, directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, published by Sony. Gothic Yharnam beast-hunting, Regain/Rally system, Insight, Chalice Dungeons; never officially released on PC.
Bloons Tower Defense
Bloons Tower Defense (Bloons TD 1) is Ninja Kiwi's free Flash tower defense game released August 16, 2007, with one map, fifty rounds, and five towers (Dart Monkey, Tack Shooter, Ice Tower, Bomb Tower, Super Monkey); first of the Bloons TD series.
Blue Dragon (video game)
Blue Dragon (ブルードラゴン) is a 2006 role-playing video game for the Xbox 360, designed by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi with characters by Akira Toriyama and music by Nobuo Uematsu.
Borderlands (video game)
Borderlands is Gearbox Software's 2009 shooter-looter for 2K, set on Pandora, blending FPS combat with Diablo-style procedural weapon loot; it founded a four-game, roughly $1 billion franchise.
Borderlands 3
Borderlands 3 is Gearbox Software's 2019 looter-shooter, the fourth main Borderlands entry, released September 13, 2019 on PS4, Xbox One, and Epic Games Store PC, with four Vault Hunters, dynamic co-op scaling, and a Metacritic of 81.
Bravely Default
Bravely Default (ブレイブリーデフォルト), also Bravely Default: Flying Fairy, is a 2012 Silicon Studio/Square Enix turn-based 3DS JRPG with the Brave/Default Brave Point battle system, 23 jobs, a Metacritic 85, and a 2025 Switch 2 HD Remaster.
Bravely Second: End Layer
Bravely Second: End Layer (ブレイブリーセカンド), also known as Bravely Second, is a Japanese role-playing game for the Nintendo 3DS and the direct sequel to Bravely Default, released in 2016.
Broforce
Broforce: 2D run-and-gun platformer by Free Lives, published by Devolver Digital, released October 15, 2015 after April 2014 Early Access. Parody action heroes, destructible terrain, 4-player co-op; final Broforce Forever update August 2023.
Brothers in Arms (video game series)
Brothers in Arms, Gearbox's Ubisoft-published WWII tactical shooter series (2005-2008): Road to Hill 30, Earned in Blood, Hell's Highway; suppression-and-flank squad command, 101st Airborne campaigns, cancelled Furious 4, revival in limbo.
Browser game
Browser game: a video game played in a web browser with no download, built on HTML5, JavaScript, WebGL, and WebAssembly. Eras: Java applets, Flash (1996-2020), then HTML5; Flashpoint preserves 200,000+ titles.
Bullet hell
Bullet hell (danmaku, 弾幕) is a shoot 'em up subgenre of dense projectile patterns dodged with a tiny hitbox, born in mid-1990s Japanese arcades via Batsugun and DoDonPachi, spread by Touhou, and distinct from the auto-attacking bullet heaven genre.
Bulletstorm
Bulletstorm: People Can Fly and Epic Games' 2011 first-person shooter (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) built around the Skillshot scoring system, energy leash, and kick; remastered as Full Clip Edition with Duke Nukem DLC in 2017, followed by Bulletstorm VR in 2024.
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, 2005 Headfirst Productions first-person survival horror published by Bethesda, adapts The Shadow over Innsmouth with a sanity system, no HUD, and a troubled six-year development.
Castle Crashers
Castle Crashers is a 2008 2D beat 'em up by The Behemoth, its second game after Alien Hominid, for up to four players co-op; released on XBLA, PSN, Steam, and as Remastered, with Painter Boss Paradise DLC in 2025.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 is MercurySteam and Konami's 2014 action-adventure for PS3, Xbox 360, and PC, concluding the Lords of Shadow trilogy with Gabriel Belmont as Dracula; Metacritic 63, Steam 84.8% positive.
Casual game
Casual game: mass-market video game genre/label with simple rules, short sessions, low skill floor; from Windows Solitaire (1990) and Bejeweled to Candy Crush; free-to-play with ads and IAP; hypercasual and hybridcasual subgenres.
Charlie Charlie challenge
Charlie Charlie challenge (juego del lápiz, Juego de la Lapicera): pencil-and-paper divination game, Spanish-speaking schoolyard origin, viral May 2015 via #CharlieCharlieChallenge; pencil movement explained by gravity, not a Mexican demon.
Child of Light
Child of Light (Ubisoft Montreal, 2014) is a 2D side-scrolling fairy-tale RPG on PC, consoles, and Switch; princess Aurora of 1895 Austria recovers the stolen sun, moon, and stars in rhyming verse, with Grandia-style turn-based combat.
Cities: Skylines
Cities: Skylines is a 2015 city-building simulation by Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive, Paradox's fastest-selling game with 45 million players, 60+ DLC packs, a 2023 sequel, and development moved to Iceflake Studios in 2026.
City-building game
City-building game: simulation genre where players zone, build, and manage cities as a mayor-planner. Founded by SimCity (1989, Maxis, Will Wright); led today by Cities: Skylines (2015, Colossal Order); R-C-I zoning and budget management define play.
Civilization (series)
Sid Meier's Civilization is a turn-based 4X strategy series created by Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley in 1991 at MicroProse, developed by Firaxis Games under 2K, spanning seven main entries and over 34 million units sold.
Civilization IV
Civilization IV (Civ 4), Firaxis/2K turn-based 4X strategy game released October 25, 2005; first 3D Civilization, Metacritic 94, 3 million copies, expansions Warlords and Beyond the Sword.
Civilization V
Sid Meier's Civilization V is a 2010 Firaxis turn-based 4X strategy game on a hex map with one-unit-per-tile combat and city-states, expanded by Gods & Kings (religion, espionage) and Brave New World (trade, ideologies), Metacritic 90.
Civilization VI
Civilization VI (Sid Meier's Civilization VI) is Firaxis's 2016 turn-based 4X strategy game, sixth in the series since 1991. Known for unstacked cities with 12 district types, adjacency bonuses, eureka boosts, five victory conditions, Rise and Fall and Gathering Storm expansions, and over 5.5 million copies sold.
Clash of Clans
Clash of Clans is a free-to-play mobile base-building strategy game by the Finnish company Supercell, launched globally on iOS in 2012, where players build villages and battle in clans.