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Achievements are extra challenges added into video games that sometimes carry a point value or unlock bonus material, and are sometimes solely for bragging rights.
This game includes a bandit used to render a hex useless. The bandit can be strategically moved throughout the game.
Players can design a base or dungeon for their characters to inhabit.
A board game is a game played on a mostly-static surface using markers or chits to indicate player progress. Many video game board games are based on tabletop games (Catan, Monopoly), but some, like Mario Party and Culdcept, are original designs that use board game design as a starting point.
Many games have had collectible cards as a part of the gameplay.
Trading systems allow players to trade items, money and other objects between each other.
These games let players see the credits without needing to play the game first.
Games that have been removed from sale from various digital store fronts.
The concept of purchasing media and having it delivered over the internet. No physical representation of this content is given, and although the content resides on the user's hard drive they are typically granted a license to the product, rather than ownership of it.
The controversial practice of incorporating "access control technology" into digital media so as to limit what owners of that media can do with it, most commonly for the stated purpose of preventing piracy.
Usually found in MMO games, but sometimes found elsewhere, emotes are a way of displaying your emotions on-screen either through a character animation or by the use of an icon.
An interesting revelation. While some games will only accept a START button press, many other games aren't as strict.
A six sided geometrical shape sometimes used in strategy, puzzle, and board games.
Prominent historical figures are your adversaries in this game.
Small payments made with actual money which result in an in-game bonus, such as an extra item, character, etc...
Games with achievements or trophies that can only be obtained while playing online multiplayer.
Options menus give you the option to change anything the game lets you change. Whether you want subtitles or not, sound effects or not, the game to be harder or not, anything you want that the game lets you change, you can change in the options menu.
A Random Number Generator (hence RNG) is a system designed to randomize a sequence of numbers. Most games technically use a table of 'random' numbers, simulating random chance.
Games with randomly (or rather, procedurally) generated environments create new levels from predetermined pieces each time the game is played.
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.
Those creatures that go 'baa' and grow wool on their backs.
Games whose titles consist of a single word.
Any person that is in an Army.
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.
Steam Cloud is a built in feature in some Steam games, it synchronizes game saves, settings and other data to the internet for access from any computer that has Steam installed.
Many games that feature a theft mechanic also include a some form of risk or punishment. Other games just let players steal things as if it's a perfectly normal thing to do.
Turn-based games divide game actions into distinct parts, called turns. This gives the player time to strategically choose actions as the battle or events unfold.
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