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The game is probably an integral part of today's digital world. In every generation of young people, we have played the game at least once but sometimes we do not know all about history, how about game genres? In the article below, let's take a look at the most popular game genres today!

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1. Action game (Action)

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Action game is a large game concept in which the player controls the character in the middle of the screen and overcomes the challenges in the game. To classify action games, people often divide into the following categories.

Platform or platform game (Platformer)

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The platform game we all know is probably Mario Bros. - one of Nintendo's successes. This game genre is popular on NES, SuperNES generations . and the gameplay is quite simple, fun but requires ingenious skills, timers, real angle adjustment of players.

Shooting (Shooter)

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Shooting games are one of the most popular game types available today. These games are mostly first-person shooter (FPS) series because the experience and history of this series has not faded in the hearts of gamers. Some famous games of this series are Counter Strike, Call of Duty.

Martial arts, antagonistic (Fighting)

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Martial arts game, fighting is one of the fun and interesting games because we can play this game with two people on the same screen without affecting the playing experience. Some typical names of this series are Mortal Kombat (Black Dragon), Street Fighter or Samurai Shodown.

Felling, fighting (Beat-em up)

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When playing the Beat - em up game, players will feel the hand because it is "flushing" continuously on opponents with combo attacks hundreds of hits. This game is probably suitable for us to relieve stress after working hours, study hard and can put anger on opponents in the game. Some typical games in this category are God of War, Devil May Cry.

Stealth (Steath)

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Sneaky action game is probably one of the quite difficult game series because we only need to go one step wrong and be discovered by the enemy, how much effort will "pour into the river". To overcome this game, the player must have the observation, tactical thinking and most importantly, timing, finish the enemy fast and prepare to be undetected. In this series, some names like Metal Gear Solid, Hitman, Assasin's Creed are the typical games not to be missed if you are a fan of this series.

Survival

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Join the world of survival games, players must constantly move, search for essential items for survival purposes and unlock manufacturing and construction skills. Some outstanding survival games are Stranded Deep, Ark Survival Evolved.

Rhythm

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Ranked as an action game, but the melody games are not violent but bring melody and music experiences to the players. The famous games of this genre are Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution.

2. Action-Adventure Game (Action-Adventure)

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Adventure action game is a combination of action elements, adventure helps givers can discover the secrets in the game, collect items to survive or increase the ability for the protagonist. The subcategories of this series are:

Survival horror (Survival horror)

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This game takes players into real life challenges but sometimes horror and ghost situations will make the weak have a "cry". The titles of the genre can be mentioned as Redsident Evil, Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Metroidvania

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This is a quite strange series because they are exploited from two famous titles, Metroid and Castlevania of Nintendo and Konami. At first glance, metroidvania is a game with 2D graphics, along with a large map, rich characters and these games today are mostly indie games. For example: Ori and the Blind Forest, Iconoclasts .

3. Adventure game (Adventure)

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Adventure games are the games that take players to explore the plot, the world created by the developers, making players immersed in the exciting adventures in the game world. Some sub-branches of this series are.

Interactive game (Text game)

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This game genre is quite simple and is completed by game developers in a short time. These games mainly use basic commands to interact such as fighting (Fight), pick up weapons (Grab Weapon) . Text game developed in the 20th century when the game technology platform was young and computers Can only perform basic commands without a graphical interface (Graphic). Some typical games are: Planetfall, Spider and Web.

Graphic adventures

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In this category, the adventure game series adds a new level that is equipped with a graphical interface and players can interact with in-game items with mouse clicks. For example: Snatcher (Konami), Spycraft: The Great Game (Activision), Shadow of Memories (Konami).

Visual novel (Visual Novel)

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This series is known for its simple but extremely fun gameplay: role-playing, using dialogue to control characters with still images. Nowadays, graphic novel games are often anime-inspired titles that make us look like a vivid manga story on anime pictures. For example: Phoenix Wright, Danganronpa.

4. Role-playing game (RPG)

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Role-playing games are one of the most "plowing" game genre of killing players. To own the terrible parameters in the game, the player must spend time to increase the Level when fighting monsters, bosses or searching for rare items by passing quests and bosses in the game. Some genres of this game are.

Action RPG

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Role-playing action games dominate the RPG world and sometimes this series can be called adventure action role-playing games because of the "open" nature of the game. In these games, players can freely explore the world, plow their characters to the highest stats and earn "genuine" items by defeating the bosses in the game. For example: Diablo, Torchlight.

Online role-playing RPG (MMORPG)

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Online role-playing games have elements of RPGs, but players can compete with other players via the Internet. This is one of the addictive game types and consumes a lot of time or money for gamers because game publishers often organize events with the form of loading cards to buy items or sell rare items. exchanged by cash. In the early years of the 21st century, MMORPGs were quite popular in Vietnam and many gamers were willing to spend millions on virtual characters in the game Thien Long Bat Bo, MU Online, Vo Lam Truyen Ky.

Strategic role-playing (Tactical RPG)

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This game genre requires players to devise feasible strategies to complete the challenges in the game. This series still carries the basic nature of RPGs because of the role-playing gameplay and increasing skills and items in the game by destroying monsters, soldiers or bosses. For example: Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, Warhamer 40,000.

Role playing the open world (Sandbox RPG)

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Collectively called the game "sandbox" is also, these games take players on adventures without rules. Players can freely explore the world your own way without having to follow the story (Story). One of the "monuments" of the Sandbox game village is Minecraft with millions of gamers in the world playing daily.

Turn-based group role-playing game (First person party based RPG)

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These games have quite simple gameplay. Players will role-playing a character group with several members and move, attack in turn. The famous Might and Magic series is the game in this category.

5. Simulation game

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The simulation game is quite interesting and "addictive" by the fact and lovely. Sometimes, you want to do something realistic but your age and ability cannot be done and simulation games are created so that players can try to do something interesting like being a person. be an adult, fly an airplane, a car or run an entire city. In particular, the category of simulation games is classified into the following small groups:

Construction and management simulation

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The construction and management simulation game takes players to the role of managers, the authorities of a unit, city, country and rational use of resources to develop the city and facilities. The typical games of this genre are SimCit, Roller Coaster Tycoon.

Life simulation

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Life simulation game takes you into a character and lives in the world with many different characters. You can make friends, apply for any promotion and choose a partner. One of the monuments of this series is The Sims

Vehicle simulation

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Have you ever wished to ride on extremely large container cars or drive super airplanes? To satisfy these interesting feelings, you should look to the vehicle simulation games like Truck Simulation or Flight Simulation to entertain and bring the feeling of driving the vehicle you love.

6. Strategy game (Strategy)

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Strategy games are one of the most popular game types today. Playing strategy games requires the player to have the most reasonable judgment, observation and calculation. The strategy game helps players the ability to think sharply and quickly. Some small branches of this series are

4X tactics (Explore, expand, exploit, exterminate)

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This series combines 4 elements that are Mining, expanding, mining, destroying. The main purpose of the game is so the player must conduct strategies quickly to be able to overwhelm the opponent. For example: Sid Meier's Civilization

Artillery tactic

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This series often takes on the subject of artillery, strategic weapons such as tanks, spacecraft or even heavy weapons such as bazoka. Typical of this series is the legendary tank game (Battle City) on the NES system or the famous worm shooting game (Worm) on the computer.

Real-time strategy (RTS)

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Real-time strategy game exploits elements such as resource mining, construction, development, war and the player must manage, use and make plans to develop and conquer opponents in time. the shortest. For example: Age of Empires, Red Alert.

Real-time tactics RTT

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The RTT genre is a subset of the RTS series. RTT game focuses on developing specific strategies to win instead of having to gather resources, build houses, train the army. For example: Modem War (Ozark), Close Combat: Invasion Normandy (Atomic).  

Multiplayer online arena (MOBA)

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This game genre is basically "cramming" 2 - 10 players into a virtual "arena", for them to fight and win. However, the MOBA game requires high teamwork, coordination between the player-controlled generals, taking advantage of factors such as kill points (Kill), support (Assist) and page upgrades. What happened to the match. So far, the game is quite old and is loved by many gamers that are League of Legends and DOTA 2.

Turn base strategy

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Turn-based strategy games appeared very early, appeared on the console games such as SNES, PS1, XBOX because of the ability to move by turn and do not need precision, move as much as time strategy games Real (RTS). If you've ever used a console like PS1, PS2, you've probably heard the "super" Final Fantasy 7, 8, 10 legends that have "captivated" generations of gamers.

Turn base tactics (TBT)

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As a small branch of the TBS series, turn-based strategy games focus on strategies, which do not require players to plow hoes, collect items, and before fighting, players need to Equip the right weapons for different character classes to win the game. For example: XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy Tactics.

Tower defense

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Strategy game has a very simple gameplay but requires players to know how to optimize resources and upgrade equipment for attacks in a reasonable way to win. The most popular line of gamers on computers and phones is Plant vs Zombie, Fieldrunner.

War strategy (Wargame)

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Get the topic of actual war and the player must devise specific strategies in the battle to win such as capturing key bases, organizing guerrilla combat plans . Such as Real War, Men of War.

Multinational war tactics (Grand strategy wargame)

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Also exploiting the topic of war, but the context of the game will take the theme of the army of the country with a large number of units on the battlefield, sometimes up to tens of thousands of soldiers to help players experience the The battle is unique like in world history. The typical name of this series is Total War.

7. Sports game

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Sports games are often games that exploit sports topics such as football, racing, martial arts . is one of the healthy games that we should entertain instead of playing addictive games. , haunting like horror games, shooting, open world. Sports games are usually classified into the following groups:

Racing

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Racing games bring players into the driver of the world famous cars such as Formula 1 racing car, "super cow" Lamborghini . and experience the feeling of being a true racer in the game. To experience the true feeling, the player can shop the steering wheel to play the game "has" more. Typical titles of the racing game series are F1, Forza.

Teamwork (Team sports)

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Join the team-coordinating games, players have the opportunity to immerse themselves in super classic matches with the star players or enjoy the NBA professional basketball tournament on your screen. For example: FIFA, PES, Madden NFL, NBA2K.

Competitive

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This game category is also known as esports and the titles of this series can be FPS shooting games or team collaboration games. These are selected games and organized into professional tournaments bringing together gamers around the world with thousands of dollars in prizes. For example: Overwatch, Team Fortress.

Sports-based fighting

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These games are based on traditional sports such as martial arts, boxing and players are immersed in the martial arts extremely interesting. For example: Fight Night Round, WWE 2K.

8. Puzzle game

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Puzzle game is one of the genre of time-killing game but quite addictive because of simple rules but it makes players arduous to learn the key to winning. This is also a very good brain training game that you should try.

Logical thinking)

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The simple game of thinking is to put the player in the situations that require thinking such as putting a block of bricks so tightly or finding an escape in the maze. For example: Tetris, Bejeweled.

Trivia (Trivia)

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This game category requires the player to solve the puzzle before the end time. Each puzzle can exist as a multiple choice with answers A, B, C, D before time runs out. It sounds like the show Who is a millionaire on VTV3. That's right, gameshow Who is a millionaire was made into a trivia game on a computer with the same name. In addition, we also witness the feverish game with this category on social networks that is Confetti with thousands of dollars in prizes.

9. Some other games

Short, simple game (Casual)

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This is a pretty crowded game genre, especially since Android and iOS platforms have developed, the number of games landed on this platform is quite a lot. Game casual is understood as a short game, simple gameplay. Some famous game genres of this series are Candy Crush Saga and Flappy Bird.

Card game (Card game / Board game)

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This game takes players card patterns and uses them to fight other players based on the skills and stats of the card compared to the opponent. Before Autochess (DOTA 2) and Team Fight Tactics (League of Legends) were present, the Yugioh game followed the famous manga of the same name as one of the most popular card games.

Educational games (Game based learing)

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The idea of ​​learning to play, play and learn is quite good when the schools apply the forms of gaming to educate their students. Educational games often bring vivid, funny illustrations often targeting primary and secondary school students with lessons in math, literature, history . In some schools, they study Students learn how to type with ten fingers through the game Mario Teaches Typing.

Mobility Game (Excergame)

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Instead of sitting in one place, these games require players to move according to the movements of the game. One of the gaming machines that support these games is Wii Sport like Let's Golf and most recently the Nintendo Switch handheld version with games that require players to move like Mario tennis aces.

With the knowledge shared in the article, you can grasp the popular game genres today and what kind of game you are playing! Have a nice day!