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Drug Dealer Simulator
Drug Dealer Simulator is a 2020 first-person crime simulation game by Byterunners and Movie Games S.A. about building a drug-dealing empire; sold 400k+ copies, Metacritic 59, with a 2024 co-op sequel and a 2025 Schedule I controversy.
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami is a 2024 comedic detective adventure by Happy Broccoli Games starring duck PI Eugene McQuacklin, released May 23, 2024 on PC, Switch, and Xbox, later PS5 and mobile, with a 2025 sequel The Ghost of Glamping.
Duck Hunt
Duck Hunt (NES, 1984 Japan, 1985 NA launch) is Nintendo R&D1's light gun shooter for the NES Zapper, with Game A/B duck modes and Game C clay shooting; it works only on CRT televisions and was re-released on Wii U Virtual Console in 2014.
Duck, duck, goose
Duck, duck, goose is a children's circle chasing game, called Duck, Duck, Gray Duck in Minnesota; earliest found print reference 1924, Swedish origin theory unproven.
Duet Night Abyss
Duet Night Abyss (デュエットナイトアビス) is a free-to-play 3D action RPG by Pan Studio/Hero Games, launched October 28, 2025 on PC, iOS, Android. Unusually for the genre, it removed character/weapon gacha and stamina before launch, monetizing through cosmetics only.
Duke Nukem
Duke Nukem: video game franchise starring the wisecracking action hero Duke, from the 1991 2D shooter through 1996's Duke Nukem 3D to the record-delayed Duke Nukem Forever (2011), owned by Gearbox.
Duke Nukem 3D
Duke Nukem 3D is a 1996 first-person shooter by 3D Realms on Ken Silverman's Build engine, known for real-world destructible levels, humor, an M-rated ESRB rating, and a 2003 GPL source code release.
Duke Nukem Forever
Duke Nukem Forever (DNF) is a 2011 first-person shooter by Gearbox Software and 2K Games, announced by 3D Realms in 1997 and released June 2011 on PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 after roughly 14 years of development, earning a Metacritic score of 48/100.
Dune 2000
Dune 2000 is a 1998 real-time strategy game by Westwood Studios and Intelligent Games, a remake of Dune II for Windows and PlayStation (1999), with Atreides, Ordos, and Harkonnen houses, spice harvesting, and Westwood Online multiplayer; never digitally re-released.
Dune II
Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty (also Dune II: Battle for Arrakis) is Westwood Studios' 1992 MS-DOS real-time strategy game published by Virgin Games, set on Arrakis with Houses Atreides, Harkonnen, and Ordos, regarded as the first modern RTS.
Dune: Awakening
Dune: Awakening is an open-world survival game developed and published by Funcom, set on the desert planet Arrakis in the Dune universe, released on PC in June 2025.
Dungeon Fighter Online
Dungeon Fighter Online (Dungeon & Fighter, 던전앤파이터, DNF) is a free-to-play 2D side-scrolling action RPG MMORPG by Neople and Nexon, launched 2005, with 850M+ registered users and over $22B life-to-date revenue.
Dungeon Keeper
Dungeon Keeper (Bullfrog Productions, Electronic Arts, 26 June 1997, PC) is a real-time dungeon management strategy game by Peter Molyneux and Sean Cooper where you play the villain, building dungeons and monster armies; expanded by The Deeper Dungeons and preserved by KeeperFX.
Dungeon Keeper 2
Dungeon Keeper 2 (1999, Bullfrog Productions) is a PC dungeon-management strategy sequel to Dungeon Keeper, with campaign, My Pet Dungeon, Skirmish, TCP/IP multiplayer, possession mode, twelve trap types, and a GOG Preservation Program re-release.
Dungeon Siege
Dungeon Siege is a 2002 action RPG by Gas Powered Games, founded by Chris Taylor of Total Annihilation. Party-based hack-and-slash with a data-driven Skrit engine; spawned Dungeon Siege II, III, Legends of Aranna, and a film.
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is a 2021 third-person co-op action RPG by Tuque Games and Wizards of the Coast, set in Icewind Dale with Drizzt Do'Urden, Catti-brie, Bruenor, and Wulfgar; poorly reviewed (Metacritic 55-57) and delisted with servers shut down February 24, 2025.
Dustborn
Dustborn is a 2024 single-player story-driven action-adventure game by Red Thread Games, published by Quantic Dream, about Pax, a Vox-wielding Anomal leading a punk-band-cover crew across an alternate divided America.
Dwarf Fortress
Dwarf Fortress (Bay 12 Games) is a fantasy colony sim and roguelike by Tarn and Zach Adams, in development since 2002, released free in 2006 and on Steam with pixel graphics in 2022; known for deep procedural world simulation and inspiring Minecraft and RimWorld.
Dying Light
Dying Light (2015) is a first-person open-world zombie survival game by Techland, published by Warner Bros., set in Harran; known for parkour, melee crafting, and a day-night cycle with Volatiles, spawning Dying Light 2 (2022) and The Beast (2025).
Dying Light (series)
Dying Light is Techland's open-world zombie survival series of three first-person parkour action games: Dying Light (2015), Dying Light 2: Stay Human (2022), and Dying Light: The Beast (2025), known for day-night cycles, Kyle Crane and Aiden Caldwell, and 50+ million players.
Dying Light 2
Dying Light 2: Stay Human is Techland's 2022 first-person parkour zombie survival game set in Villedor, starring Aiden Caldwell; Metacritic 76, 5 million+ copies, long post-launch support and The Beast spinoff.
Dying Light: The Beast
Dying Light: The Beast (Techland, 2025) is a standalone open-world survival horror sequel returning Kyle Crane to Castor Woods, adding Beast Mode, Chimera hunts, firearms, and 4-player co-op; Metacritic 79.
Dying Light: The Following
Dying Light: The Following is Techland's 2016 expansion to Dying Light, continuing Kyle Crane's story in an open countryside map with a customizable zombie-smashing buggy; Metacritic 79 (PC).
Dynamite Cop
Dynamite Cop (Dynamite Deka 2) is Sega's 1998 Model 2 arcade beat-'em-up, sequel to Die Hard Arcade, ported to Dreamcast in 1999; three commandos rescue the president's daughter from pirates on a hijacked cruise ship using improvised weapons.
Dynasty Warriors (三國無双)
Dynasty Warriors (三國無双, Sangoku Musou) is Koei Tecmo's Omega Force hack-and-slash series based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms; began as a 1997 fighting game, defined Musou action from Dynasty Warriors 2 (2000), with Origins (2025) its highest-rated entry.
Dynasty Warriors 4 (真・三國無双3)
Dynasty Warriors 4 (真・三國無双3, Shin Sangoku Musou 3) is Omega Force's 2003 PS2 hack-and-slash set in the Three Kingdoms era, with 42 characters, experience-based weapons, and Metacritic scores of 78 (PS2) and 75 (Xbox).
Dynasty Warriors 8 (真・三國無双7)
Dynasty Warriors 8 (真・三國無双7, Shin Sangokumusō 7) is Omega Force's 2013 musou action game on Wei, Wu, Shu, and Jin; released July 16, 2013 for PS3 and Xbox 360, with Xtreme Legends and Empires expansions, Metacritic 68.
Dynasty Warriors 9
Dynasty Warriors 9 (Shin Sangoku Musou 8) is Omega Force and Koei Tecmo's 2018 open-world hack-and-slash for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, with the State Combo System and 83 returning officers; reception was mixed.
Dynasty Warriors: Origins
Dynasty Warriors: Origins (真・三國無双 ORIGINS) is Omega Force's 2025 tactical action game for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam, covering the Yellow Turban Rebellion to Chibi through an amnesiac hero, Ziluan, with nine companions and ten weapon types.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (video game)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 Atari 2600 game programmed by Howard Scott Warshaw in five weeks, a commercial failure linked to the 1983 video game crash.