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A puzzle in which a series of chain reactions are triggered in order to achieve a simple goal.
Having the main protagonist(s) and foreground appear only as silhouettes against an often colourful background has become a popular art aesthetic for 2D games in the last few years.
A fake glitch is a "glitch" coded into the game, designed to confuse, scare, or amuse the player.
A game mechanic where the player's possessions occupy a certain amount of space on a matrix; inventory items can be manually manipulated to fit within the grid.
Creatures that bleat. Some are also satanic.
When a game's box art is an homage to another form of media, or cover art as well.
Characters who at some point possess the ability to shrink in size.
Crawling is a form of locomotion in which a person lies down and uses the hands and knees to move around, or by dragging the body along the ground.
Decontamination is the process of removing hazardous materials from a person or object. In games, this is usually achieved by lasers, rather than water as in the real world.
Games whose titles are meant to be taken more than one way.
Violence doesn't solve everything - in these games you have the option to arrest perpetrators instead of killing them outright. Often a bonus is attached to taking suspects in alive.
The cutscenes are nothing but the pages of a comic book. Audio is usually dubbed over to give them a little more life.
Illusion magic excels in trickery and deception.
Superpowered or super intelligent bad guys who fight superheroes.
A distribution of power depending on the accuracy of timed button presses.
The act of preparing food by applying heat, often cooking in games produces items which yield some kind of benefit towards your character.
When a prominent character is voiced by a member of the development team. The authors Clive Barker and Harlan Ellison are good examples of this.
A process by which one player/creature's health points are transferred to another, particularly via a spell, technique or item.
The study of and search for remains of human culture and history (or that of other civilizations).
A religion of the Indian subcontinent, encompassing many different traditions. It is the largest third religion in the world, and also one of the world's oldest religions still in practice.
A feature (or features) is advertised on the box or in the game manual, but due to the game being rushed or not tested the feature is not there. Fixed with patches or DLC in newer games.
There's nothing cooler than planting a bomb, turning the camera around, and walking away nonchalantly as it blows up behind you. As everyone knows, true heroes don't look at explosions.
Content such as modes, characters, maps, ect. that are exclusive to a single platform in a multiplatform game.
When the player, compared to the adversary he/she is supposed to defeat, looks like a tiny inchworm.
A stance or movement by a video game character celebrating a current accomplishment.
The larval stage of a butterfly or moth.
Baditude is being "edgy" in an obviously forced or fake manner. Games with baditude often feature excessive swearing, gratuitous violence, and content meant to shock or offend.
Characters that are initially portrayed as evil, but eventually turn out to be good or not as serious of a threat. This also includes villains who remain evil the entire game, but contain some sense of moral goodness or ambiguity.
Joke characters are characters in video games that provide humor, and are often parodies of characters from other games, or parodies of famous celebrities.
Games that involve the player saving a president from being killed, kidnapped, or otherwise harmed.
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