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platform game

video game where the core objective is to move the player character between points in an environment
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platform game

Summary

platform game is a video game genre[1]. It draws 551 Wikipedia views per month (video_game_genre category, ranking #21 of 139).[2]

Key Facts

  • platform game's instance of is recorded as video game genre[3].
  • platform game is a type of action game[4].
  • platform game's is a list of is recorded as list of platform game series[5].
  • platform game's Commons category is recorded as Platform games[6].
  • platform game's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Platformers[7].
  • platform game's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'platform'}[8].

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Definition and Type

platform game's instance of is recorded as video game genre[3]. It is a type of action game[4].

Why It Matters

platform game draws 551 Wikipedia views per month (video_game_genre category, ranking #21 of 139).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3h ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Is a list of → list of platform game series
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → action game
    Instance of → video game genre
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 25685, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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