They include such subgenres as educational, adventure, quest, puzzle, browser games, massively multiplayer online (MUD) and online role-playing games (MMORPG).
Educational games
A peculiar genre that is remembered by a very narrow circle of users, as these games are usually designed for preschoolers. In their purest form, games of this genre are used to teach young children numbers, the alphabet, and the names of things.
Adventure games
In the gaming vocabulary, this genre is more often called “roguelike”. It is one of the earliest genres that was popular even before the advent of three-dimensional games. In such games, the plot, interesting characters, and atmosphere prevail over the gameplay, there are practically no battles, the player moves around the map, communicates with characters, interacts with the environment, exploring it and solving various puzzles. This genre, in its turn, implies text adventure games, massively multiplayer online games (MUDs), or interactive fiction. In such games, the player enters text commands using the keyboard, for example, in the popular old game Zork. During the game, a description of the place appears in a text window, and the player sets commands in a text line: how to use inventory, where to move, what spell to cast, etc. The most interesting thing is that the full list of commands may be unknown to the player, as it differs depending on the location.
Another type of this genre is graphic adventure games, which replaced text games with the development of graphics. Point-and-click mechanics are widely used in such games.
Quest games
Games in which it is necessary to solve a riddle, but the methods of solving it are unknown. To solve it, you need to find information on your own, communicate with different characters, who can set new tasks in the answers. Often, to solve a riddle, you need to use special equipment in a certain place. An example is a game like The Walking Dead: The Game.
Puzzle games
These are also puzzle games, like quests, but in them, to solve the puzzle, you need to learn some rules or patterns, and then use these rules to perform simple combinations of actions that will lead to the solution of the puzzle, for example, Tetris.
Browser games
Popular representatives of this genre are games on social networks. The main action, the main gameplay, is communication. In such games, you can communicate with several categories of characters (allies, enemies, traders) and use a different method of communication with each category.