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video game genre

video game term; categorization of video games
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Summary

video game genre is a type of genre[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: audiovisual genre[3], game genre[4]
  • Commons category: Video games by genre[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Video game genres[6]
  • Facet of: video game[7]
  • Topic has template: Template:Video game genre[8]
  • Different from: video game theme[9]
  • Properties for this type: P13199[10]
  • Has list: list of video game genres[11]
  • Is metaclass for: video game[12]
  • P14541: YJhzg[13]

Why It Matters

video game genre is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

full motion video human-based computation game

References

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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.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4h ago · Xezbeth · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gnd id → 1365683826
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ast', 'az', 'be', 'ca', 'ckb', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fa',
    Sitelink count → 42
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → YJhzg
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  3. 15w ago · Infovarius · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facet of → video game
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → —
    Instance of → type of genre
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Instance of: type of genre"
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