Category:Video game terminology

E

• Emergent gameplay‎ (2 C, 13 P)
• Esports terminology‎ (1 C, 27 P)

G

• Video game genres‎ (116 P)

M

• Massively multiplayer online role-playing game terminology‎ (15 P)
• MUD terminology‎ (26 P)

S

• Scrolling‎ (3 C, 9 P)
• Video game slang‎ (13 P)

V

• Video game graphics‎ (2 C, 17 P)
• Video game modes‎ (14 P)

• Glossary of video game terms

0–9

• 1-up
• 360 noscope

A

• ACG (subculture)
• Achievement (video games)
• Actions per minute
• Active Time Battle
• Active users
• Advergame
• Aim assist
• Arcade video game
• Asset flip
• Autosave
• Avatar (computing)

B

• Battle pass
• Bonus stage
• Boss (video games)
• Boss key
• Breast physics
• Browser game

C

• Combo (video games)
• Compulsion loop
• Video game console
• Console (computer games)
• Console game
• Cover system
• Critical hit
• Cross-platform play
• Crunch (video games)
• Cutscene

D

• Danmaku subtitling
• Destructible environment
• Dialogue tree
• Director's cut
• Downloadable content
• Dual wield
• Dungeon crawl
• Dynamic game difficulty balancing

E

• Educational entertainment
• Emergent gameplay
• Expansion pack
• Experience point
• Video game exploit

F

• Fantasy video game console
• Fast travel
• Fatality (Mortal Kombat)
• Flight simulator
• Fog of war
• Free-to-play
• Full-motion video

G

• Game balance
• Game feel
• Game mechanics
• Game over
• Game sense
• Gameplay
• Gamer
• Games as a service
• Grinding (video games)
• Guest appearance

H

• Hack and slash
• Handheld game console
• Healer (video games)
• Health (game terminology)
• Hitbox
• Hitscan
• HUD (video games)

I

• Indie game
• Interactive storytelling
• Invisible wall
• Item (game terminology)

K

• Killing off

L

• Lag (video games)
• Let's Play
• Level (video games)
• Licensed game
• Life (video games)
• Line of sight (video games)
• Longplay (video games)
• Loot (video games)
• Loot box
• Ludonarrative dissonance

M

• Macromanagement (gameplay)
• Magic (game terminology)
• Massively multiplayer online game
• Matchmaking (video games)
• Microconsole
• Microtransaction
• Mini-map
• Minigame
• Mob (video games)
• Mobile game
• Module file
• MUD terminology

N

• Non-player character
• Nonlinear gameplay

O

• Online game
• Open world
• Optimization (role-playing games)
• Outro (literary)
• Overworld

P

• Paper doll (video games)
• PC game
• Permadeath
• Personalized video game
• Player character
• Player versus environment
• Player versus player
• Power-up
• Powergaming
• Probability of kill
• Proximity chat

Q

• Quest (video games)
• Quick time event

R

• Ragdoll physics
• Raid (video games)
• Random encounter
• Random map
• Rank up
• Reboot (fiction)
• Video game remake
• Replay value
• Rush (video games)

S

• Saved game
• Score (game)
• Scripted sequence
• Season pass (video games)
• Silent protagonist
• Skill-based matchmaking
• Skin gambling
• Spawn point
• Spawning (video games)
• Speedrunning
• Split screen (computing)
• Status effect
• Strafing (video games)
• Strategy guide

T

• Tank (video games)
• Tank controls
• Text-based game
• Time trial
• Timekeeping in games
• Tool-assisted speedrun
• Triple-I (videogame)
• Tutorial (video games)
• Twitch gameplay

V

• Arcade cabinet
• Video game walkthrough
• Virtual economy
• Virtual world

W

• Warp (video games)

Z

• Zone (video games)