100 Video Games by Description

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Takes place in the fictional town of Arcadia Bay, Oregon. 18-year old Max Caulfield, a high school senior who learns she has the power to rewind time when she saves her childhood friend, Chloe Price, from being killed.

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Follows the story of mercenary Cloud Strife, who is hired by the eco-terrorist group AVALANCHE—led by Barret Wallace—to help fight the mega-corporation Shinra Electric Power Company, who attempts to drain the planet's lifeblood as an energy source to further their profits.

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Plumber who lives in the fictional land of the Mushroom Kingdom with Luigi, his younger, taller brother.

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Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, Crystal, Ruby, Sapphire, Fire Red, Leaf Green, Emerald, Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HearGold, SoulSilver, Black, White, Black 2, White 2, X, Y, Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire, Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, Ultra Moon, Let's go Pikachu!, Let's go Eevee!, Sword, Shield

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Street-smart Nathan Drake is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor "Sully" Sullivan to recover a fortune amassed by Ferdinand Magellan, and lost 500 years ago by the House of Moncada.

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The Terrorists main objective is to plant and successfully detonate a bomb on a specific bombsite, and the Counter-Terrorists objective is to diffuse the once planted bomb. A team can also win on a complete elimination of the opposing team.

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Series of historical real-time strategy video games originally developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Studios. The first game was released in 1997. Requires the player to develop a civilization from a handful of hunter-gatherers to an expansive Iron Age empire.

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Multiplayer game where 10 players get dropped into an alien spaceship, sky headquarters or planet base, where each player is designated with a private role of either a “crewmate” and an “impostor.” This is an online multiplayer social deduction game, and a player can either be a crewmate or an imposter.

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Explores the intense and gritty origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor. Armed only with raw instincts and the ability to push beyond the limits of human endurance, Lara must fight to unravel the dark history of a forgotten island to escape its relentless hold.

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... franchise differs from game to game, but it usually focuses on the adventures of Link, a green-clad, sword-toting hero

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An action-adventure game played from either a third-person or first-person perspective. Players complete missions—linear scenarios with set objectives—to progress through the story. Outside of the missions, players may freely roam the open world. The name of the series come from motor vehicle theft.

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First-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive in 1996. In the game, players must find their way through various maze-like, medieval environments while battling monsters using an array of weaponry. The overall atmosphere is dark and gritty, with many stone textures and a rusty, capitalized font.

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Cute, energetic, young purple dragon. He is known for his ability to defeat enemies by breathing fire and charging at them, and his ability to glide to otherwise unreachable areas in the game world.

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A sorcerer from another world invites some of the world's best fighters to compete in the tournament where fighters duel to a death match.

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First-person shooter developed by Valve. Players assume the role of Gordon Freeman, a scientist who must escape the Black Mesa Research Facility after it is invaded by aliens. The gameplay consists of combat, exploration and puzzle-solving.

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Woody is an average man who has a happy life, until his neighbor Mr. Rottweiler makes his life miserable. Woody decides to take full revenge on Mr. Rottweiler and calls up a TV crew, which produces the self-titled reality show that shows the neighbor's relations from worst sight.

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A man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder and now hunted by cops and the mob

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An award-winning indie puzzle video game set in the fictional, communist country. player is a border inspector who regulates the border checkpoint in East Grestin. They must determine who to admit and who to keep out or arrest.

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MMORPG originally developed by Ymir Entertainment and originally released in Korea in 2004. It has since been published in many European countries and in the United States by Gameforge. Experience points are earned every time the player kills enemies or completes a mission from an NPC. The game's combat is based on a Hack and slash system. Players can also gather groups of creatures and land basic attacks and skills on each one of them simultaneously while they are all attacking the character at the same time. The game has several different player character classes.

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A man referred to simply as the "Postal Dude" has been evicted from his home. He believes the United States Air Force is releasing an airborne agent upon his town of Paradise and that he is the only individual unaffected by the ensuing "hate plague". He fights his way from his house to an Air Force Base through various locations, including a ghetto, train station, trailer park, truck stop, and an ostrich farm. During the course of the gameplay, a voice in the protagonist's head (voiced by Rick Hunter) can be heard taunting his victims through cryptic absurdity, often through consecutive kills or when switching through the player's arsenal. Game is released in 1997, sequel in 2003.

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A series of music rhythm games first released in 2005. Players use the strum bar along with the fret buttons to play notes that scroll down the screen along a fretboard.

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The plot is set in a fictional history of real-world events, taking place primarily during the Third Crusade in the Holy Land in 1191. The player character is a modern-day man named Desmond Miles who, through a machine called the "Animus", relives the genetic memories of his ancestor, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.

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A challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark.

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Takes place in 1960, where Jack, the sole survivor of a plane crash in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, discovers the entrance to the recluse underwater city of Rapture, at the end of a civil war which left most of it in disrepair. Finding himself trapped in a strange and dangerous dystopia, and with only a mysterious man called Atlas helping him, Jack has no choice but to fight for his survival against Rapture's mutated and monstrous denizens, using all types of weapons and genetic enhancements, as he searches for a way to return to the surface.

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Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore from the UK, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and many more, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.

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An action-adventure hack and slash video game developed by SCE Cambridge Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. Game centres around the charlatan protagonist, Sir Daniel Fortesque, as he makes an attempt to stop antagonist Zarok's invasion of the kingdom whilst simultaneously redeeming himself.

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The games feature turn-based, fantasy-themed conflicts in which players control armies of mythical creatures. The series began in 1995 with the release of the first title. Towns play a central role in the games since they are the primary source of income and new recruits. A typical objective in each game is to capture all enemy towns. In the game there is e.g. Castle Town, Rampart, Tower, Necropolis, Inferno.

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Game flings hordes of bean-like players together online in a wild dash through round after round of escalating chaos until one victor remains. Battle bizarre obstacles, shove through unruly competitors, and overcome the unbending laws of physics as you stumble towards greatness.

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Very tall and thin with unnaturally long arms. It can extend its arms to scare people or capture them. It has a white, featureless head and appears to be wearing a dark suit. In images, the figure is often out of focus and blurry.

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A franchise of platform video games, created by video game designer Michel Ancel for Ubisoft. Since the release of the original game in 1995, the series has produced a total of 45 games across multiple platforms. Playable with up to four local players who may drop in or out at any time. Players can choose characters with additional costumes available as the game progresses.

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Games created by Westwood Studios and released by EA. Main conflict between Brotherhood of Nod and GDI. Games such as Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn, Renegade have been released under this name.

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Japanese video game series and media franchise created and owned by Sega. An anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who battles the evil Doctor Eggman, a mad scientist

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An interactive drama and action-adventure game focuses on four different characters: Ethan Mars, a father and the main protagonist; Scott Shelby, a private eye; Norman Jayden, an FBI agent; and Madison Paige, a photojournalist. Each playable character may die depending on the player's actions, which create a branching storyline; in these cases, the player is faced with quick time events.

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A 2011 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware and published by Namco Bandai Games. Takes place in the kingdom of Lordran, where players assume the role of a cursed undead character who begins a pilgrimage to discover the fate of their kind. A core mechanic of the game is exploration. Players are encouraged to proceed with caution, learn from past mistakes, or find alternative areas to explore. It is also considered one of the most influential and hardest video games of its generation.

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A 2D sandbox game with gameplay that revolves around exploration, building, crafting, combat, survival, and mining, playable in both single-player and multiplayer modes. The game has a 2D sprite tile-based graphical style reminiscent of the 16-bit sprites found on the Super NES.

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Takes place in a medieval fantasy world and follows Geralt of Rivia, one of a few traveling monster hunters. The game's system of moral choices was noted for its time-delayed consequences and lack of black-and-white morality.

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A series of association football video games developed and released annually by Electronic Arts.

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Based on the American animated television series. The game follows the New Kid, who has moved to the eponymous town and becomes involved in an epic role-play fantasy war involving humans, wizards, and elves, who are fighting for control of the all-powerful Stick of Truth.

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A first-person survival horror video game developed and published by Red Barrels. The game revolves around a freelance investigative journalist, Miles Upshur, who decides to investigate a remote psychiatric hospital named Mount Massive Asylum, located deep in the mountains of Lake County, Colorado.

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A farming simulation game primarily inspired by the Harvest Moon video game series. At the start of the game, players create a character, who becomes the recipient of a plot of land and a small house once owned by their grandfather in a small town called Pelican Town.

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Created by polish 11 Bit Studios a survival-themed strategy game where the player controls a group of civilian survivors in a makeshift-damaged house in the besieged fictional city of Pogoren, Graznavia. The main goal of the game is to stay alive during the war with the tools and materials that the player can gather.

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A team-based massively multiplayer online action game dedicated to armored warfare in the middle of the 20th century. Throw yourself into epic tank battles with other tankers all over the world.

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A 3D platformer from veterans of the genre Tate Multimedia, featuring a plucky, cheeky but a cutie kangaroo on a quest to uncover the truth around the disappearance of his father.

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A turn-based strategy artillery game developed by Team17, first released in 1999. The player controls a team of up to eight caterpillars in combat against opposing teams.

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A top-down dungeon crawler game, presented using two-dimensional sprites, in which the player controls titular or other unlockable characters as they explore the dungeons located in his basement or ceiling. Very loosely inspired by the biblical story of the same name.

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A Western-themed action-adventure game played from a third-person perspective. The player controls John Marston and completes missions—linear scenarios with set objectives—to progress through the story

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A physics-based sandbox game that, in its base game mode, has no set objectives. The player is able to spawn non-player characters, ragdolls, and props, and interact with them by various means. Using the "physics gun", ragdolls and props can be picked up, rotated, and frozen in place.

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Game pits naked players against each other in a harsh, open world environment with the sole goal of survival. Your task is developing from stone to helicopter.

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A 4-8 player online and local-multiplayer party game. Friends or AI using a wide array of absurd items in the board mode and compete to destroy friendships in the unique collection of minigames.

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The racing game in scottish driver in title.

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The game follows the story of Faith Connors, a 24-year-old Runner who lost her mother when she was campaigning against the city shifting from its vibrant atmosphere to its current regime. The game has a realistic style, is brightly colored and quite different from most first-person perspective video games, allowing a wide range of actions and greater freedom of movement via Parkour.

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The story follows war veteran William "B.J." Blazkowicz and his efforts to stop the Nazis from ruling over the world. Series began at 1994.

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Graphic adventure games created by Belgian comic artist and video game developer Benoît Sokal. Set within an alternate universe designed by Sokal and introduced in the 1999. Kate Walker travels to remote locations and time periods in this timeless voyage to discover her true destiny.

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Tough as nails platformer where you play as an animated cube of meat who's trying to save his girlfriend (who happens to be made of bandages) from an evil fetus in a jar wearing a tux.

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The player controls protagonist Bigby, who must investigate a series of mysterious murders. Throughout the game, the player explores various three-dimensional environments, such as apartment buildings and a bar.

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A video game in which players create and break apart various kinds of blocks in three-dimensional worlds. The game's two main modes are Survival and Creative. In Survival, players must find their own building supplies and food. They also interact with blocklike mobs, or moving creatures.

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American hero and worldwide cultural icon who has repeatedly saved Earth from armies of hostile robots, alien invaders, and mutant pig cops. He is the flagship character of an entire franchise named after him.

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High-octane 2D action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat. You will assume the role of a mysterious antihero, at the start of most chapters, "Jacket" wakes up in his apartment and listens to cryptic messages on his answering machine. Released in 2012.

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Action role-playing video game developed by Blizzard North and released by Blizzard Entertainment in January 1997. Set in the fictional Kingdom of Khanduras in the mortal realm. The player moves and interacts with the environment primarily by way of a mouse. Other actions, such as casting a spell, are performed in response to keyboard inputs.

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Shooter game in which the objective is to shoot moving targets on the television screen in mid-flight. The game is played from a first-person perspective and requires the NES Zapper light gun, which the player aims and fires at the screen. Released by Nintendo in 1985.

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An action fighting video game based on the DC Comics universe. It is developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

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Strategic, maze-based computer and video game franchise originally developed by Hudson Soft. The original game was published in 1983 and new games in the series are still being published to this day. Most known from multiplayer modes where players must attempt to eliminate each other by putting explosives and be the last one standing.

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Life simulation video game published by Electronic Arts in 2000. It is a simulation of the daily activities of one or more virtual people in a suburban household near a fictional city. Players control customizable humans as they pursue career and relationship goals.

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Subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech", featuring futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with societal collapse or decay. Released in 2020 by CD Projekt Red.

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Series of action role-playing video games primarily developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. The series focuses on free-form gameplay in a detailed open world. Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim all won Game of the Year awards from multiple outlets.

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Set in the fictional world of Azeroth, allows players to create avatar-style characters and explore a sprawling universe while interacting with nonreal players—called nonplayer characters —and other real-world players.

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Players are able to farm, breed livestock, grow crops and sell assets.

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Japanese horror video game series and media franchise created by Capcom. The franchise is primarily advertised as horror video game series for Playstation. Most common starring protagonists: Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine and Leon S. Kennedy.

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The series generally centers around illicit street racing and tasks players to complete various types of races while evading the local law enforcement in police pursuits. The series is one of EA's oldest franchises not under their EA Sports brand. The series released its first title in 1994.

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Game where players control Kratos, a Spartan warrior who is sent by the Greek gods to kill Ares.

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A crossover fighting game series published by Nintendo, and primarily features characters from various Nintendo franchises. The series was created by Masahiro Sakurai, who has directed every game in the series. In game we can meet: Mario, Link, Kirby, Samus, Yoshi, Pikachu, Sonic, Megaman, Cloud, Pac-Man, Kazuya.

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A 2013 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. Players control Joel, a smuggler tasked with escorting a teenage girl, Ellie, across a post-apocalyptic United States.

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Tactical shooting game developed and published by Riot Game, involving two teams with 5 players in each team. Every player can sign in and play remotely from anywhere in the world. Every game has 25 rounds and the team that wins 13 of them first wins the game. Players can choose their in-game characters called agents at the start of the game.

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Playstation games take place in a science fiction setting and follow the adventures of a feline humanoid known as a Lombax, who is a mechanic and a diminutive, sentient Zoni "defective" robot, as they travel through the universe, saving it from evil forces that consistently threaten it.

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A graphic adventure from Telltale, played from a third-person perspective with a variety of cinematic camera angles, in which the player, as protagonist Lee Everett, works with a rag-tag group of survivors to stay alive in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Title was made on TV show license.

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The empire building game gives you control of a nation to guide through the years in order to create a dominant global empire. Rule your nation through the centuries, with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy.

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A video game published for the PlayStation Portable handheld game console combining gameplay features of a rhythm game and a third-person god game. The title is created from two Japanese onomatopoeia marching and drumming (jap. パタポン)

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The game centres on Yarny, a small anthropomorphic creature made of yarn the player navigates through the environment, utilizing unbinding the yarn which makes up Yarny to solve puzzles, avoid dangerous creatures, and traverse obstacles.

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Designed by Takashi Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto, debuted in arcades in 1987. The player controls martial artist Ryu to compete in a worldwide martial arts tournament spanning five countries and 10 opponents. A second player can control Ryu's friendly American rival, Ken Masters.

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A 2D side-scroller platform video game published by Monolith Productions in 1997 about an anthropomorphic pirate cat who sets on a quest to find an ancient amulet while fighting enemies and solving puzzles.

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A 1999 survival horror game published by Konami. The objective of the player is to guide main protagonist and player character Harry Mason through a monster-filled town as he searches for his lost daughter, Cheryl. Gameplay consists of combat, exploration, and puzzle-solving.

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A 2011 detective action-adventure video game developed by Team Bondi and published by Rockstar Games. The player may freely roam its interactive open world, primarily in a vehicle or on foot. As the game progresses, the player advances through several police department bureaus—Patrol, Traffic, Homicide, Vice, and Arson. The story is divided into multiple "cases", during which players must investigate crime scenes for clues, follow up leads, and interrogate suspects and witnesses; the player's success at these activities impacts how much of each case's story is revealed and their overall rating. The game features fast-paced action sequences, including chases, combat, and gunfights. Outside of cases, the player can complete optional street crimes and collect items found around the game world.

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A 1987 Konami run-and-gun action platformer, notorious for its high difficulty. The player character comes armed with a gun that can shoot infinitely. Different weapons with new abilities and that shoot different types of projectiles can be acquired as the player progresses through the levels.

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A fighting game based on the mixed martial arts

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An action role-playing first-person looter shooter video game franchise set in a space Western science fiction setting, created and produced by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games for multiple platforms. Main antagonist is Handsome Jack.

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A series of action-adventure games focused on various incarnations of the eponymous ...(man), set in ancient and medieval ...(place). Video game franchise created by Jordan Mechner.

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The series follows the 3rd Street Saints, a fictional street gang..

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An asymmetric multiplayer survival horror online game developed by Canadian studio Behaviour Interactive. It is a one-versus-four game in which one player takes on the role of a Killer and the other four play as Survivors.

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Multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by Defense of the Ancients, a custom map for Warcraft III, Riot's founders sought to develop a stand-alone game in the same genre.

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Video games have appeared for various consoles from Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, based on Masashi Kishimoto's manga and anime. Most of them are fighting games in which the player directly controls one of a roster of various characters as featured in the series

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Survival video game developed by the Canadian indie video game developer Klei Entertainment. The game follows a scientist named Wilson who finds himself in a dark, dreary parallel world known as the Constant and must survive as long as possible.

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Video games, films, and books following the infamous Agent 47

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4-player, online co-op, psychological horror game. You and your team of paranormal investigators will enter haunted locations filled with paranormal activity and try to gather as much evidence as you can. Use your ghost-hunting equipment to find and record evidence to sell on to a ghost removal team.

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Series of turn-based fighting, action platformer, and real-time strategy video games, made for Flash. The main character is a pirate, shipwrecked on Doomtrek Island and forced into gladiatorism to survive. In character creation, the player can choose what the main character looks like, and how his skills are distributed. Each skill relates to a form of combat: the higher the level, the better he performs at them. In every match, the player controls the gladiator with icons around him, in a turn-based system

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Fighting game series that follows the events of the King of Iron Fist Tournament, hosted by the Mishima Zaibatsu, where players can play a plethora of characters to win the tournament and gain control of the company.

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The player takes the role of a lord in a medieval kingdom. The goal is to create a stable economy and a strong military to defend against invaders: The Wolf, The Snake, The Rat, Emir, Richard The Lionheart

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Fantasy-themed action role-playing video game for Microsoft Windows developed by the German company Piranha Bytes. The player takes control of an unnamed prisoner who has just been thrown inside the mining colony.

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Horror action-adventure video game series and media franchise about Dracula, created and developed by Konami. It has been released on various platforms, from early systems to modern consoles, as well as handheld devices such as mobile phones.

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Video game franchise originally developed by Naughty Dog as an exclusive for Sony's PlayStation console. The games are mostly set on the fictitious Wumpa Islands, an archipelago situated to the south of Australia where humans and mutant animals co-exist, although other locations are common. Main antagonist: Doctor Neo Cortex

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Takes places within the fictional U.S. city of Lost Heaven, Illinois, during the final years of prohibition in the 1930s.