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Skywind

Skywind: fan-made, free total conversion mod for Skyrim Special Edition recreating The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind; TES Renewal Project, ~3,000 voiced characters, 27 skills restored, unreleased as of 2026.

Slay the Spire

Slay the Spire is a single-player roguelike deck-building video game by Mega Crit, released fully in 2019 after Early Access, and credited with popularizing the roguelike deckbuilder genre.

Slay the Spire II

Slay the Spire II (Slay the Spire 2), Mega Crit's roguelike deckbuilder sequel in Godot, launched on Steam Early Access March 5, 2026 at $24.99 with five characters, four-player co-op, enchantments, and 3 million first-week sales.

Sleeping Dogs (video game)

Sleeping Dogs is a 2012 open-world action game by United Front Games and Square Enix, set in Hong Kong, starring undercover cop Wei Shen infiltrating the Sun On Yee triad; began as True Crime: Hong Kong, Metacritic 80, remastered as the 2014 Definitive Edition.

Slender: The Arrival

Slender: The Arrival is a 2013 first-person survival horror game by Blue Isle Studios with Parsec Productions' Mark Hadley and Marble Hornets writers, following Lauren searching for Kate while stalked by Slender Man; it received a 2023 10th Anniversary Update.

Slender: The Eight Pages

Slender: The Eight Pages is a 2012 free indie horror game by Parsec Productions and Mark Hadley in which players collect eight pages in a dark forest while evading the faceless Slender Man; it sparked the YouTube Let's Play horror boom and preceded Slender: The Arrival (2013).

Slime Rancher

Developed by Monomi Park, the game Slime Rancher involves Beatrix LeBeau wrangling slimes on a planet a thousand light-years from Earth. It sold six million copies in 2017.

Slither.io

Slither.io: free-to-play multiplayer snake game launched March 2016 by Steve Howse (Lowtech Studios); eat pellets to grow, boost at 2x speed by shedding mass, kill rivals by head-on-body collisions; HTML5 servers hold 600 players.

Slitterhead

Slitterhead (野狗子) is a 2024 action-horror game by Bokeh Game Studio, Keiichiro Toyama's first post-Silent Hill title. Players possess humans as the Hyoki to fight monsters in Kowlong; Metacritic 62.

Slow Damage

Slow Damage (スロウ・ダメージ) is a 2021 adult boys' love visual novel by Nitro+CHiRAL, written by Fuchii Kabura with art by Yamada Gitarou, set in the crime-ridden district Shinkoumi; English release by JAST BLUE in 2022.

Slowpoke

Slowpoke (Yadon, ヤドン) is Pokémon #0079, a Water/Psychic 'Dopey Pokémon' from Generation 1. It evolves into Slowbro (level 37) or Slowking (King's Rock trade), and its Galarian Psychic form branches into Poison/Psychic Galarian Slowbro and Slowking.

Sly Cooper

Sly Cooper is a PlayStation stealth platformer series starring a raccoon master thief, made by Sucker Punch (2002-2005) and Sanzaru (Thieves in Time, 2013); Sony owns the IP, dormant since 2013.

Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus

Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (Sly Raccoon) is a 2002 Sucker Punch stealth platformer for PS2, starring raccoon thief Sly Cooper recovering the stolen Thievius Raccoonus book from the Fiendish Five; Metacritic 86, re-released on PS4/PS5 in 2024.

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, also known as Sly Cooper 4, is a stealth platform game by Sanzaru Games, released in 2013 for PlayStation 3 and PS Vita.

Smash Hit

Smash Hit (smAsh HIT) is a 2014 free first-person endless-runner physics game by Swedish studio Mediocre AB for iOS and Android, where players throw metal balls to smash glass obstacles; crystals add 3 balls, crashes cost 10, and $1.99 premium adds checkpoints and modes.

Smeargle (ドーブル)

Smeargle (ドーブル, Doble) is a Normal-type Painter Pokémon, National Dex #235, the only Pokémon that learns Sketch, which copies the opponent's last move; in Pokémon GO it copies moves via GO Snapshot photobombs.

Smite (video game)

Smite is a free-to-play third-person MOBA by Titan Forge Games and Hi-Rez Studios, released March 25, 2014, where players control 100+ mythological gods; a Unreal Engine 5 sequel, Smite 2, entered alpha in 2024.

Smuggler's Run

Smuggler's Run, formerly titled Getaway, is a 2000 open-world off-road racing game by Angel Studios and Rockstar Games, a PlayStation 2 launch title about smuggling contraband.

Smuggler's Run 2

Smuggler's Run 2: Hostile Territory is a 2001 Angel Studios off-road driving game for PS2, published by Rockstar Games. Sequel to the 2000 launch title; 36 missions in Russia, Vietnam, and Russian winter; setting changed from Afghanistan after 9/11; GameCube port called Warzones.

Snake (1998 video game)

Snake (1998 video game): Nokia's preinstalled mobile game, designed and programmed by Finnish engineer Taneli Armanto in 1997 for the Nokia 6110; 84×48 monochrome display, number-key controls, carried on an estimated 350–400 million phones.

Snake (video game genre)

Snake (video game genre): line-growing arcade genre from the 1976 Gremlin game Blockade; Nokia's 1997 6110 version by Taneli Armanto reached ~350 million phones; later Slither.io and .io variants.

Snake's Revenge

Snake's Revenge: Konami's non-canon NES stealth action sequel to Metal Gear, released April 1990 in North America under Ultra Games, made without Hideo Kojima, whose existence prompted Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.

Snatcher (スナッチャー) (video game)

Snatcher (スナッチャー) is Hideo Kojima's 1988 Konami cyberpunk graphic adventure for PC-8801/MSX2, starring amnesiac junker Gillian Seed hunting androids; only the 1994 Sega CD version reached North America.

Sniper Elite

Sniper Elite is Rebellion Developments' third-person WW2 stealth-sniping series, begun in 2005 on Xbox, starring Karl Fairburne, known for the X-Ray kill cam, with Sniper Elite: Resistance (2025) as latest entry.

Sniper Elite 4

Sniper Elite 4 is a 2017 third-person stealth shooter by Rebellion for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, set in WW2 Italy with sniper Karl Fairburne; known for X-ray kill cams, wind and gravity ballistics, and 12-player multiplayer.

Sniper Elite III

Sniper Elite III (Sniper Elite 3: Afrika) is Rebellion's 2014 tactical third-person stealth shooter set in WWII North Africa, starring OSS sniper Karl Fairburne, with X-ray kill cams, gravity and wind ballistics, co-op, and a Metacritic score of 67.

Sniper Elite V2

Sniper Elite V2 is a 2012 tactical stealth shooter by Rebellion Developments starring sniper Karl Fairburne in 1945 Berlin, introducing the X-ray kill cam; remastered in 2019 with Metascores of 67 and 73.

Sniper Elite: Resistance

Sniper Elite: Resistance is Rebellion's 2025 third-person WW2 stealth shooter spin-off for PS4/PS5, Xbox, PC, and Game Pass, starring Harry Hawker in occupied France 1944, with X-ray kill cams, co-op, Invasion mode, and new Propaganda missions.

Snorlax (カビゴン)

Snorlax (カビゴン, Kabigon) is Pokémon #0143, a Normal-type Generation I Sleeping Pokémon that evolves from Munchlax, weighs 460 kg, eats 880–900 lbs of food daily, and was designed after Game Freak developer Koji Nishino.

Sokoban (倉庫番)

Sokoban (倉庫番, Sōkoban, warehouse keeper) is a 1982 Thinking Rabbit puzzle game by Hiroyuki Imabayashi: push-only crate puzzles, PSPACE-complete, NP-hard, and the template for the box-pushing puzzle genre.