30 games in the database.
Among Us puts a small crew on a spaceship where one or more players are impostors who kill the others and sabotage the ship. The crew completes tasks and votes out suspects, so most of the game is played through persuasion rather than mechanical skill.
Apex Legends is a squad-based battle royale in which three players pick characters with different abilities and drop into a shared map. Movement, including sliding and climbing, is central to how fights are won.
Celeste is a precision platformer about Madeline climbing a mountain, built from short rooms that demand repeated attempts. The story deals with anxiety and self-doubt alongside the climbing itself.
Cities: Skylines asks you to solve traffic before you are allowed a skyline: zoning, water flow, garbage and road layout all decide whether the population keeps growing.
Dead Cells is a roguelike action game with side-scrolling combat and levels that connect as the player unlocks routes over many runs. Permanent upgrades open new paths, while weapons and mutations change from one attempt to the next.
Disco Elysium follows a disgraced detective investigating a murder in a city recovering from a failed revolution. Skills argue with each other inside the character's head, and dialogue checks resolve most conflicts instead of combat.
Factorio is a construction and automation game in which the player mines resources and builds machines that feed one another. The stated goal is to launch a rocket, which in practice means designing factories that keep getting larger.
Fortnite is Epic Games' free-to-play online game, listed on the Epic Games Store with a release date of July 21, 2017. It holds several modes under one client: the 100-player Battle Royale, Zero Build, Fortnite OG, Reload, Festival, Rocket Racing, LEGO Fortnite and the co-op Save the World campaign. Battle Royale and Creative require no purchase; Save the World's campaign is unlocked through in-app purchases.
Hades is an action roguelike in which Zagreus tries to escape the underworld and restarts at the bottom after every failed attempt. Combat mixes melee and ranged weapons with boons from the gods, and each death moves the story forward.
Hollow Knight is a 2D action adventure set in Hallownest, a ruined underground kingdom of insects. The player explores connected caverns, fights bosses and unlocks movement abilities that open routes back through earlier areas.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a 2017 kart-racing game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch, an expanded version of Mario Kart 8 that first appeared on Wii U in 2014. It adds a reworked battle mode and, through the Booster Course Pass, additional tracks and characters.
Minecraft is a block-based sandbox in which players gather resources, build structures and explore generated worlds. A separate survival mode adds hunger, hostile creatures and progress through better tools and armour.
Minecraft Dungeons II is a co-op action RPG that moves the Minecraft spin-off into procedurally arranged dungeon runs with loot, character builds and boss fights. Players pick a hero, gear up between runs and push deeper in a party of up to four.
NieR: Automata follows the androids 2B, 9S and A2 through a war against machine lifeforms, and it expects you to reach the end more than once: each ending changes whose story you were watching.
No Man's Sky is an exploration game set in a shared galaxy of procedurally generated planets. Players gather resources, repair and upgrade ships and travel between systems, with base building and trading available along the way.
Outer Wilds places the player in a small solar system that resets every 22 minutes when the sun explodes. Progress comes from knowledge rather than upgrades, since nothing carries over between loops except what the player has learned.
Portal 2 is a first-person puzzle game built around a device that creates linked portals on flat surfaces. Chambers are solved by redirecting momentum and light, and a separate campaign adds two-player puzzles with their own dialogue.
Return of the Obra Dinn is a detective puzzle in which the player identifies the fate of everyone aboard a lost ship. A watch shows the last moment of a dead crew member, and names have to be worked out from context.
Rocket League is a competitive game in which cars push a large ball into a goal on enclosed arenas. Matches are short, and the physics allow aerial play that takes a long time to control.
Civilization VI is a turn-based strategy game in which a leader guides one civilisation from ancient times to the modern era. Cities spread across the map as specialised districts, and victory can come through science, culture, religion, domination or diplomacy.
Slay the Spire is a deckbuilding roguelike in which the player climbs a tower and fights enemies with a deck of cards. Cards are added and removed between fights, so the deck is rebuilt on every run.
Spyro Reignited Trilogy is a 2018 collection that rebuilds the first three Spyro games — Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! and Spyro: Year of the Dragon — for home consoles and PC. The player runs, glides and breathes fire through hub worlds, collecting gems and freeing trapped dragons. It was developed by Toys for Bob and published by Activision.
Stardew Valley is a farming simulation in which the player inherits a neglected plot of land and turns it into a working farm. Days are spent growing crops, raising animals, fishing, mining and getting to know the residents of the nearby town.
Terraria is a 2D sandbox built around digging, building and fighting. Players explore generated worlds, gather ore and equipment, and take on bosses that gate further progress.
Skyrim sends a prisoner with a dragon's voice across a province of nine holds where nothing is gated: you can walk to the far side of the map at level one. Factions, dungeons and houses are all waiting in any order you like.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt follows Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter searching for his ward Ciri across a war-torn region. Quests often resolve through dialogue and consequence rather than combat alone.
Thronefall strips real-time strategy down to two phases: build a small kingdom by day, then hold the line against the night's attack, one map at a time.
Unpacking is a puzzle game about emptying boxes and arranging belongings in a series of rooms. There are no timers or scores, and where objects end up tells the story of the person who owns them.
Vampire Survivors is a roguelike in which the player only controls movement while weapons fire automatically. Enemy waves grow denser over a run of about 30 minutes, and pickups build the character through stacked upgrades.
Warframe is a free-to-play action game in which players control heavily modified fighters called Warframes. Missions are short and movement is fast, and most progression comes from crafting new equipment from blueprints.
