Game Mechanic	Game Mechanic	Game Mechanic	Game Mechanic
Archery	Deck Building	Magic	Social Deduction
Base Building	Dice Rolling	Melee	Stealth
Battle Arena	Dodging	Parkour	Superpower
Battle Royale	Drawing	Permadeath	Swimming
Boxing	Driving	Physics Playground	Tag
Card Battle	Farming	Puzzle	Time Management
City Building	Fighting	Racing	Tower Defense
Climbing	Fishing	Resource Gathering	Travel
Coloring	Flying	Resource Management	Trivia
Cooking	Free Roam	Rhythm	Turn-Based
Crafting	Hide And Seek	Rotating
Dancing	Hunting	Shooting

Archery

Gameplay that involves players using bows and arrows to aim and shoot targets.

Example: Elven Assassin

Base Building

Gameplay that involves players designing, constructing, and managing their own base or settlement.

Example: Medieval Dynasty New Settlement

Battle Arena

Gameplay in which players compete against each other in a controlled environment, often with the goal of eliminating or outscoring opponents.

Example: Battle Arena VR

Battle Royale

Gameplay in which a large number of players are dropped into a map and compete against each other in a last-man-standing style, often with a shrinking playable area.

Example: POPULATION: ONE

Boxing

Gameplay that involves players engaging in one-on-one combat using fists.

Example: The Thrill of the Fight

Card Battle

Gameplay that involves players competing using cards with unique abilities and attributes.

Example: Conjure Cards

City Building

Gameplay that involves players designing, constructing, and managing their own cities.

Example: Cities: VR

Climbing

Gameplay that involves ascending or traversing vertical or near-vertical environments.

Example: The Climb 2

Coloring

Gameplay in which players use painting, drawing, or other means to change/fill in the color of a surface.

Example: Painting VR

Cooking

Gameplay that involves preparing and managing food.

Example: Cooking Simulator VR

Crafting

Gameplay that involves players gathering and combining resources to create new items, equipment, or structures.

Example: A Township Tale

Dancing

Gameplay that involves movement in rhythm with music, often requiring timed button presses or gestures to execute choreographed dance sequences.

Example: Dance Dash

Deck Building

Gameplay in which players collect and combine cards to build and customize their deck, often used in strategy and card games.

Example: Cards & Tankards

Dice Rolling

Gameplay that involves dice being rolled to determine outcomes in a chance-based, probabilistic system.

Example: Dice Roller

Dodging

Gameplay in which the player must dodge incoming attacks or obstacles.

Example: DodgeCraft

Drawing

Gameplay that involves creating or manipulating visual art using drawing tools.

Example: Gesture VR

Driving

Gameplay that involves controlling vehicles, such as cars, trucks, or motorcycles.

Example: Car Parking Simulator - Driving and Racing

Farming

Gameplay that involves planting, managing, and harvesting crops or raising livestock.

Example: Farming Simulator VR

Fighting

Gameplay that involves physical confrontations with enemies or opponents, executing attacks, and defending against counterattacks.

Example: Kaiju Battle Simulator

Fishing

Gameplay in which players engage in fishing activities, such as casting lines, waiting for bites, and reeling in catches.

Example: Bait!

Flying

Gameplay that involves controlling a character or vehicle that can fly through the air, often with the ability to soar, glide, or perform aerial stunts.

Example: Ultrawings 2

Free Roam

Gameplay that allows players to explore and interact with a virtual environment without a linear or structured narrative.

Example: Asgard’s Wrath 2

Hide and Seek

Gameplay in which one or more players hide, and another player must find them, often with a time limit or rules for seeking and hiding.

Example: Mannequin

Hunting

Gameplay that involves tracking, pursuing, and capturing or killing virtual animals or targets.

Example: Clay Hunt VR

Magic

Gameplay that involves magical elements or abilities, like casting spells.

Example: Waltz of the Wizard

Melee

Gameplay that involves close-range combat with opponents, typically using weapons or hand-to-hand fighting.

Example: Blade & Sorcery: Nomad

Parkour

Gameplay that involves traversing environments using fluid, acrobatic movements, such as running, jumping, climbing, and vaulting.

Example: BONELAB

Permadeath

Gameplay in which the player’s character or progress is irreversibly lost upon death, requiring a complete restart from the beginning of the game.

Example: The Light Brigade

Physics Playground

Gameplay that involves experimentation and manipulation of physics-based interactions, often in a sandbox or simulated environment.

Example: Newton’s Playground : Physics Sandbox

Puzzle

Gameplay that involves solving problems or enigmas to progress through the game, often requiring logical thinking and pattern recognition.

Example: Rooms of Realities

Racing

Gameplay in which players compete in high-speed competitions, often on a track or circuit, with the goal of completing laps or reaching the finish line first.

Example: MotoX

Resource Gathering

Gameplay in which players collect resources, such as items, materials, or currency.

Example: Medieval Dynasty New Settlement

Resource Management

Gameplay in which players manage and allocate resources, such as items, materials, or currency.

Example: Homeworld: Vast Reaches

Rhythm

Gameplay in which players time their actions or button presses in synchronization with music or other rhythmic elements.

Example: Drums Rock

Rotating

Gameplay that involves rotating objects or characters in 3D space, often used in puzzle games or platformers.

Example: Tetris® Effect: Connected

Shooting

Gameplay that involves using projectiles or firearms to damage or defeat enemies or targets.

Example: VAIL

Gameplay that involves players trying to uncover hidden information or deceive others to achieve a goal, often through strategic communication and deduction.

Example: Decommissioned