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Games that have animals (except humans) as the main character. The character must be playable.
Anthropomorphism is the concept of an object, concept or character that has human qualities or traits, such as speech, a level of intelligence similar or higher than a human's and self consciousness. "Anthro" means "of human" and related to the concept of humanity.
The act of preparing food by applying heat, often cooking in games produces items which yield some kind of benefit towards your character.
The head of a group of devout people who follow their crazy beliefs. Can often be dangerous.
Cults don't necessarily have to be evil or out to destroy the world, but in video games it's usually safe to assume so.
Demons are generally creatures of evil, usually from Hell, who are often totally untrustworthy even when they're not murdering everyone and destroying everything in their path.
Diseases are medical conditions that have a negative effect on one's body. Some games revolves around a disease.
Farming is the act of growing plants and raising animals for food.
A gaming genre of its own, but also frequently featured as a mini-game in other titles, especially RPGs.
Health is a value that gauges how much damage players can take in a game before they die or pass out. Also known as life in some games. Health is usually represented by a bar or a percentage instead of an exact amount. Found in most non sport games
Logging is the process of cutting down trees for timber. This is an important aspect in many strategy games.
Marriage is when characters, typically a pair of them, are joined in loving (or not so loving) matrimony!
These are often a departure from the conventional gameplay of a game. There have also been compilations; games including only minigames. The Mario Party series has a lot of minigames, too!
The extraction of valuable minerals from the earth.
The act of taking on an in-game task; most often, these are provided to the player by an NPC. MMOs and RPGs are the primary users of this concept.
The act of hiring qualified people for a job or enlisting them for warfare purposes.
A gathering of people who believe in the same higher power(s), and follow the rules laid out by the mortals chosen to be their prophets. Video games generally try to shy away from negatively portraying real religions to avoid controversy, however they make ample use of fictional in-game religions.
The act of acquiring resources for the purpose of building structures and/or unit construction. Resource gathering is a staple of the RTS (Real Time Strategy) genre.
Set of actions, that are part of a religion or traditions.
A sacrifice is the act of offering something (item, health, creature, blood, etc.) to a higher power or a greater good. In games, this often guarantees some sort of favor in return.
Quests that aren't necessary for game completion. They typically offer side-stories or specific rewards.
A set of skills and abilities displayed in a branching path. Skills in the tree open up after completing required prerequisites.
An eight legged arachnid. Some make webs to catch prey and some are poisonous. None have made a web grand enough to be called a parlor, though.
An API feature built in to Steam that allows developers to support and customize multiple controller types on any device using Steam.
A digital festival featuring many upcoming games.
Summoning involves bringing a distant ally into battle to either perform a single, devastating attack or to fight on the behalf of the summoner.
Smaller Switch Game Cards (between 1 and 4 gigabytes) will have a green circuit board.
Animals that have the ability of speech and in some cases are anthropomorphic.
In the Warcraft universe, the Old Gods are a powerful and chaotic race chained beneath the Earth, having the power to control their victims and make them do their bidding. They can eventually turn even the most noble and powerful beings insane.
A game perspective that views the action from above, commonly at a fixed position and/or rotation.
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