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Research involves spending resources to create new items or unlock upgrades.
Special locations in game that allow the player to manually save their progress.
Not all scientists are mad and/or hell-bent on dominating worlds. Some are just your ordinary egghead with a coat.
Games whose titles consist of a single word.
A gameplay mechanic which allows the player to move faster than the normal speed. Usually for a set amount of time.
Using stealth often requires the player to accomplish their objective without being detected by enemies. Methods of detection can vary from game to game, and can be based on an enemy's line of sight, how quiet the player is, or even how the player interacts with the environment.
A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.
Valve's counterpart to Microsoft's popular achievement system.
Games that have been accepted by Valve through Steam's Greenlight service.
The time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon. Followed by Twilight.
Survival is a concept that signifies that the player's life is constantly in jeopardy.
Popularized by franchises such as Resident Evil and Silent Hill, these games typically involve a strong implication of danger, vulnerable protagonists, and disturbing monsters.
An unbeatable enemy is just that, an enemy you can't beat or destroy. It's best to just run away from them.
Voxel-based volumetric clouds
These are games that begin with the player waking up. More often than not this occurs in RPGS, but is certainly not exclusive to the genre.
Variable and dynamic simulation of weather conditions can be used to add variety, atmosphere (a rainy day in an RPG) and/or challenge (rain on the racetrack in a driving game) to a game.
A viewable map that displays the entire game world. The map also usually shows the player's location in the world.
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