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God of War: Ghost of Sparta

God of War: Ghost of Sparta is a 2010 PSP action-adventure by Ready at Dawn and Santa Monica Studio, set between God of War 1 and 2, introducing Kratos's brother Deimos, with Thera's Bane and the Arms of Sparta.

Goddess of Victory: Nikke (승리의 여신: 니케)

Goddess of Victory: Nikke (승리의 여신: 니케, 勝利の女神:NIKKE) is a 2022 free-to-play sci-fi RPG shooter by Shift Up, published by Level Infinite, with five-girl cover-shooter squads, Burst skills, gacha recruitment, and top-grossing launch performance.

Godfall

Godfall is a 2020 looter-slasher action RPG by Counterplay Games, published by Gearbox, released November 12, 2020 on PS5 and PC; Orin fights his brother Macros across three realms, with 12 Valorplates and a Metacritic score of 61.

Godus

Godus is a free-to-play god game by Peter Molyneux's studio 22cans, funded on Kickstarter in 2012 (£526,563 from 17,184 backers), released in Steam early access in 2013 and on iOS in 2014, and widely criticized for unfulfilled promises.

Godzilla: Monster of Monsters!

Godzilla: Monster of Monsters! (ゴジラ) is a 1988 Compile-developed, Toho-published NES/Famicom action-strategy hybrid in which Godzilla and Mothra fight Planet X's kaiju across eight hex-based Ring Fields with side-scrolling stages and 90-second boss battles.

Golden Axe

Golden Axe (ゴールデンアックス) is Sega's 1989 System 16-B fantasy beat 'em up by Makoto Uchida, starring Ax Battler, Tyris Flare, and Gilius Thunderhead against Death Adder; ported to Genesis and many systems, with sequels and a 2026 Paramount+ animated series.

Golden Sun

Golden Sun (Ougon no Taiyou: Hirakareshi Fuuin) is a 2001 Game Boy Advance turn-based JRPG by Camelot Software Planning, published by Nintendo, starring the Adept Isaac; known for Psynergy puzzles and the Djinn class system, scored 91 on Metacritic, with sequels The Lost Age and Dark Dawn and a 2024 Switch Online reissue.

GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)

GoldenEye 007 (1997) is Rare's Nintendo 64 first-person shooter based on the 1995 James Bond film, directed by Martin Hollis. Third best-selling N64 game, over 8 million sold, famed for four-player split-screen multiplayer; Metacritic 96.

GoldenEye: Rogue Agent

GoldenEye: Rogue Agent is a 2004 EA first-person shooter for PS2, Xbox, GameCube, and DS in which a dismissed MI6 agent with an artificial golden eye fights Bond villains; Metacritic 61.

Gone Home

Gone Home (The Fullbright Company, 2013) is a first-person story exploration game set June 7, 1995, in which Kaitlin Greenbriar explores her empty family house, reconstructing sister Sam's story through environmental storytelling, with no combat or puzzles.

Good Pizza, Great Pizza

Good Pizza, Great Pizza is TapBlaze's story-driven pizzeria simulator, released on mobile in 2014 and Steam/Switch in 2023, with five chapters, 300M+ downloads, and free-to-play mobile monetization.

Goodnight Universe

Goodnight Universe is a 2025 first-person narrative adventure by Nice Dream and Skybound Games, spiritual sequel to Before Your Eyes, starring Isaac, a psychic 6-month-old baby, controlled optionally by webcam face tracking.

Goomba

Goomba: mushroom-shaped enemy of Nintendo's Super Mario franchise, debuting in Super Mario Bros. (1985). Shiitake-based design, defeated by one jump, Bowser's traitor minion, playable in several spinoffs.

Gordon Freeman

Gordon Freeman is the silent theoretical-physicist protagonist of Valve's Half-Life series, age 27 canonically, armed with a crowbar and HEV suit, named by Gabe Newell after Marc Laidlaw's Dyson Poincaré draft.

GoreBox

GoreBox (GoreBox Animosity) is a 3D physics-driven gore sandbox by F²Games, free on Android since 2022 and $8.99 on Steam since July 2023, built around the Reality Crusher, GoreDolls, map editor, and Workshop.

Gorf

Gorf is a 1981 Midway arcade shooter designed by Jamie Fenton, with five missions, robotic speech, and rank progression; home ports omitted the Galaxian stage, and no official re-release exists.

Gorilla Tag

Gorilla Tag is a free multiplayer VR game by Another Axiom, created by Kerestell Smith (LemmingVR), released February 2021. Players move using only arm-based locomotion, playing Infection, Hunt, and Paintbrawl; first Quest game over 100,000 reviews.

Gotham Knights (video game)

Gotham Knights is a 2022 open-world action role-playing game developed by WB Games Montréal, in which Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood, and Robin protect Gotham after Batman's death.

Gothic (video game)

Gothic is a 2001 action RPG by Piranha Bytes set in a magical-barrier prison colony with three factions, NPC schedules, and no quest markers; a cult European classic that inspired The Witcher, remade by Alkimia Interactive in 2026.

Government simulation game

A government simulation game, also known as a political simulation, is a video game genre in which the player governs, balancing budgets, interest groups, and elections.

Grace Ashcroft

Grace Ashcroft, FBI analyst and daughter of Alyssa Ashcroft from Resident Evil Outbreak, is the survival-horror protagonist of Resident Evil Requiem (2026), sharing dual-protagonist duty with Leon S. Kennedy.

Gradius (video game)

Gradius (グラディウス), aka Nemesis, is Konami's 1985 side-scrolling arcade shoot 'em up starring the Vic Viper, known for its power-up gauge, Options, Moai heads, and checkpoint respawns; directed by Hiroyasu Machiguchi.

Gran Turismo (series)

Gran Turismo (グランツーリスモ) is Sony's PlayStation-exclusive racing simulation series by Polyphony Digital and Kazunori Yamauchi, first released in 1997, known as "The Real Driving Simulator," with over 50 million copies sold and Gran Turismo 7 as its latest mainline entry.

Gran Turismo 4

Gran Turismo 4 is a sim racing game developed by Polyphony Digital and released for the PlayStation 2 in December 2004, the fourth entry in the Gran Turismo series, with more than 700 cars.

Gran Turismo 5

Gran Turismo 5 (グランツーリスモ5) is Polyphony Digital's 2010 PlayStation 3 racing simulator, the fifth main Gran Turismo entry, with 1,031 cars (about 200 Premium), B-Spec, karts, Course Maker, Metacritic 84, and online service ended May 2014.

Gran Turismo 6

Gran Turismo 6 (GT6) is Polyphony Digital's racing simulator for PlayStation 3, released December 6, 2013, with over 1,200 cars, series-first weather and night-sky systems, and a Metacritic score of 81.

Gran Turismo 7

Gran Turismo 7 (グランツーリスモ7), Polyphony Digital's racing simulation for PS5 and PS4, released March 4, 2022; 420+ cars at launch, always-online controversy, GT Sophy AI, Spec updates, and 100-million-series sales.

Gran Turismo Sport

Gran Turismo Sport: Polyphony Digital's 2017 PlayStation 4 racing simulator, the first built for FIA-sanctioned online competition via Sport Mode; 162 cars at launch, online services ended January 31, 2024.

Granblue Fantasy (グランブルーファンタジー)

Granblue Fantasy (グランブルーファンタジー) is Cygames' free-to-play turn-based JRPG launched on Mobage on March 10, 2014, with gacha monetization, over 25 million downloads, and a Steam release on March 10, 2026.

Granblue Fantasy: Relink

Granblue Fantasy: Relink is Cygames' 2024 four-player action RPG spinoff of the 2014 mobile game, finished after a 7+ year cycle following PlatinumGames' 2019 exit, selling 2 million copies by mid-2025.