HAVE YOU HEARD OF THESE GENRES?

YOU’VE HEARD OF PLATFORMERS AND PUZZLERS, BUT THERE ARE SO MANY OTHER STYLES OF VIDEOGAME OUT THERE THAT YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW!

► CLICK OR CHILL ‘Clicker’ games scale like crazy! In Cookie Clicker, you start by clicking on the screen to bake a cookie, but before long you are hiring grannies, building factories, and even bringing cookies from the past! It’s weird, wild and wonderful! Most ‘Clicker’ games kinda play themselves, so if you want a more active option, try Forager! It’s part Clicker, and part mining, crafting, and combat. ► DEVIOUS DODGING ‘Bullet Hell’ games started out in Japanese arcades, and were named for the crazy amount of enemy fire you had to dodge. The players had to be perfectly precise and memorise each level to max them out! You can see the influence of ‘Bullet Hell’ style games everywhere, in blasters like Assault Android Cactus through to many of…

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