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A series of Steam features related to cross-platform play, including cross-buy, cross-play, and Linux compatibility layers.
Games featured in itch.io's unprecendentedly massive bundle with 100% of the proceeds going to the NAACP and bail funds for Black Lives Matter protesters.
Crafting allows players to create their own items with the correct ingredients. It is used mainly in MMOs and RPGs.
A type of gameplay where the player chooses and builds autonomous towers to protect a location from waves of enemies.
This concept is for games in which at least one of the main characters is male.
Cows are four-legged ruminant mammals, bred for milk, meat, or leather.
Equines that go 'neigh' and tend to eat hay. Some are the stars of motion pictures. The truest of companions to many adventurers.
Many online games allow text chat with other players.
Voice Acting is the art of providing voices for characters in games, television shows, films, radio programs, and other forms of media.
A crossover occurs when a character from one franchise makes a special appearance in a game from an unrelated franchise. Some games are specifically designed to be crossovers that bring together characters from two or more franchises.
A type of primate with tails; often monkeys are depicted as causing havoc the moment they are encountered.
These spooky entities are the spirits of the dead, returned from beyond their graves for generally sinister purposes. There's generally about even odds whether a particular ghost will be helpful or malevolent towards the living, but some ghosts just want to be left alone entirely.
Reptiles known for their hard shells.
Xbox Live is Microsoft's online gaming service.
Point and click is an interface featured in a specific kind of adventure game, where players click on objects and characters to interact with them.
Referencing a TV show, celebrity, song, trend, historical event, etc. is one of the easiest ways to get a laugh. This can be either a throw-away gag, like the name of an achievement, or the main subject of the game.
Player versus Player, commonly abbreviated as PvP, is a gaming term that originated in MMOs to refer to gameplay in which players fight against other player controlled characters.
A heads-up display is a graphical overlay of vital information used in most modern games.
Games that allow the player to choose which level to play next, rather than a fixed linear order.
Game Over originally appeared in pinball machines, and later, arcade machines. When players lose at a game, it is game over.
Characters controlled by the game for players to interact with, as opposed to player characters which are controlled by whomever is playing the game.
Extra objects, characters, or content in a game that can only be accessed after completing a certain task such as completing the game, or by using cheat codes.
Sometimes you want a challenge, sometimes you wanna coast.
Interactive fiction is a format that uses text to describe characters and objects within a setting, and the use of a parser to interpret text typed by the player, allowing the player to interact with the characters and objects within the setting.
Pigs are pink, oinking mammals with a button nose and curly tail. They are rumored to eat a lot and be dirty. They don't fly, but they do bring home the bacon.
These games let players see the credits without needing to play the game first.
Humans are bipedal, sapient primates capable of abstract reasoning, language, and emotions.
The concept of building a single city and its respective houses/institutions (e.g. Sim City) or building cities as part of an extending empire (e.g. Civilization).
An umbrella term for any sexual orientation or gender identity that is not straight.
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