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Revision as of 15:12, 1 May 2020

Taxonomy is a project on PCGamingWiki to categorise every game on the wiki.

Contact:

  • Andytizer is leading this project. To discuss further please visit our Discord on the #projects channel.
  • This space is not protected, please feel free to add your input or discuss how you think each taxonomy category should be developed.

Notes:

Templates:

Instructions

April 29, 2020

{{Monetization
|ad-supported        = 
|freeware            =
|free-to-play        = 
|sponsored           = 
|subscription        = 
}}
{{Microtransactions
|boost               = 
|cosmetic            =
|currency            = 
|finite spend        =
|infinite spend      = 
|free-to-grind       = 
|loot box            = 
|none                =
|player trading      =
|time-limited        =
|unlock              =
}}

April 20, 2020

  • Changed pay-to-skip category to free-to-grind.
  • Added new Sponsored monetization category.

April 18, 2020

April 14, 2020

  • Series, Monetization and Microtransactions rows now enabled, do not add any other rows yet.
  • Taxonomy appears below Reception in the {{Infobox game}}.
  • {{Infobox game/row/taxonomy/series | Deus Ex }} replaces the {{Series}} box template. Series should be placed as the last row in the new |taxonomy= field. Multiple series can be entered from smallest to greatest series. Delete the old {{Series}} box.
  • Optional reference area.
  • Code to be entered in comma separated values alphabetically:
|taxonomy     =
{{Infobox game/row/taxonomy/monetization      | ad-supported, dlc, expansion pack, freeware, free-to-play, sponsored, subscription | ref= }}
{{Infobox game/row/taxonomy/microtransactions | boost, cosmetic, currency, finite cap, free-to-grind, infinite cap, loot box, none, player trading, unlock | ref= }}
{{Infobox game/row/taxonomy/series            | Deus Ex, Final Fantasy }}

Taxonomy

Monetization

Reference, Video game monetization.
Categories are originally based on MicroTransaction Zone and their useful tags.

Monetization

Microtransactions

Unused
Category Definition Examples Notes
Limited use items Purchaseable items that have a limited number of uses or may expire.
Physical DLC Only a handful of PC games use 'physical DLC' and are defunct e.g. Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure. Batteries Not Included
Singleplayer only Table for One (Standalone Single Player)

Perspective

A game can have multiple perspectives.

Control

Pacing

Genres

Renamed MobyGames 'Gameplay' into 'Genres'.
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Category Definition Examples Notes

Sports subcategories

Sports subcategories
PCGW MobyGames Definition to be modified Notes Examples
American football Football (American) Codes of gridiron football, including American football and Canadian football. Madden NFL 20
Australian football (none) Also known as Australian rules football or "Aussie Rules".
(none) Athletics (moved into Mixed sports)
Baseball Baseball Incorporates the bat-and-ball sports of baseball and softball. MVP Baseball 2005
Basketball Basketball
Bowling Bowling Usually referring to ten-pin bowling; other forms of bowling (e.g. candlepin, duckpin) are rare. Does not need to use traditional balls, lanes and/or pins (e.g. Elf Bowling).
Boxing Boxing
Cricket Cricket Ashes Cricket
(none) Cycling
(none) Dance
Darts/target shooting Darts / target shooting These games simulate target shooting with either darts, guns, bows or other projectiles for sport.
Dodgeball Dodgeball
Extreme sports (none)
Fishing Fishing Sega Bass Fishing (Steam)
Fictional sport A fictional depicted sport. Speedball 2 HD
Football (Soccer) Football (European) / Soccer Association football. FIFA 08
Golf Golf Golf or miniature golf. Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf, 3D Ultra Minigolf Adventures
Handball (none)
Hockey Hockey Ice hockey and field hockey. NHL 99
Horse Horse / derby Managing horses or horse competitions.
Hunting (none)
Kick boxing (none)
Lacrosse (none)
Martial arts (none) Including mixed martial arts.
Mixed sports Olympiad / mixed sports Multiple sports, similar to the Olympics. London 2012
Paintball Paintball
Parachuting (none)
Table tennis Ping pong / table tennis
Pool or snooker Pool / snooker Referring to such cue sports (billiards).
Racquetball/squash Racquetball / squash
Sailing/boating Sailing / boating These games simulate piloting or racing sailboats, wind sails, rowing boats, powerboats, etc.
Skating (none) Including roller skating and ice skating.
Skateboarding Skateboarding Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
Snowboarding or skiing Snowboarding / skiing Shaun White Snowboarding
Sports management
Surfing Surfing Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer
Tennis Tennis
Volleyball Volleyball
Water sports Wakeboarding Jet skis, wakeboarding, etc.
Wrestling Wrestling Including competitive forms of wrestling (e.g. freestyle wrestling, Greco-Roman/Graeco-Roman/classical wrestling) or theatrical forms of wrestling made "real" thanks to video games (i.e. professional wrestling). WWE 2K15

Vehicle subcategories

Sports subcategories
PCGW MobyGames Definition to be modified Notes Examples
Industrial Agricultural / industrial Games that prominently feature agricultural / industrial vehicles controlled directly in a simulation.
Automobile Automobile These games allow the player to take control of an automobile (both driving and racing it) or otherwise focus on automobiles even if they are not driven.
Bicycle Bike / Bicycling These games allow the player to take control of a non-motorized bike to explore or race, or allow the player to manage a bike racing team. Overlap with cycling category?
Bus Bus These games allow the player to take control of or otherwise focus on buses. This includes both racing, simulation driving or any managerial game focusing on buses.
Flight Flight / aviation These games allow the player to take control of an aircraft (both flight and combat) or otherwise focus on aircrafts or aviation. Helicopters have their own genre where Flight/Aviation is implied. This genre also covers hot air balloons, blimps, zeppelins, gliders, hang-gliders and similar ones.
Helicopter Helicopter These games allow the player to take control of a helicopter (both flight and battle) or otherwise focus on helicopters.
Hovercraft Hovercraft These games allow the player to take control of a hovercraft, a hybrid craft capable of travelling over land, water, mud or ice and other surfaces. This also includes futuristic crafts that hover above the ground (e.g. WipEout or F-Zero). Hovercraft games do not have the genres Flight/Aviation or Naval/Watercraft.
Robot Mecha / giant robot These games allow the player to take control of or otherwise focus on robots or machines controlled by people. These machines vary great in size and shape, but are distinguished from other vehicles by their humanoid or biomorphic appearance.
Motorcycle Motorcycle These games allow the player to take control of a motorcycle, dirtbike or similar vehicle or otherwise focus on motorcycles. Ride, Motocross Madness
Naval/watercraft Naval / watercraft These games allow the player to take control of a boat, ship or other type of watercraft, or otherwise focus on watercraft or naval combat or navigation. Hovercrafts are considered a separate genre.
Off-roading Off-roading These games allow the player to participate in or otherwise focus on off-road racing/driving.
Self-propelled artillery Self-propelled artillery These games allow the player to take control of a self-propelled artillery or otherwise focus on self-propelled or mobile artillery.
Space flight Space flight These games allow the player to take control of spacecraft or otherwise focus on spacecrafts. Elite: Dangerous
Street racing Street racing Games which revolve around the practice of street racing, i.e. racing of motor vehicles on a public road. This practice is mostly illegal in real life, and many games depict it as an underground, illicit affair (and may feature themes such as dodging regular traffic or avoiding police), but this is not necessary for inclusion in the group. Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Tank Tank Gameplay featuring tanks whether they are fictional or based on reality.
Track racing Track racing These games allow the player to participate in or otherwise focus on racing/driving on racing tracks. This does not need to be a real race track, but it needs to be clear the environment has been fenced off or designed in such a way that a track is created, regardless of the surface or the setting. Racing games that take place in open environments where all obstacles or routes are natural, without human intervention to create a track (e.g. Outrun), do not receive this genre. Invisible barriers also do not count as a way to create a track. In order to receive this genre, the majority of the racing needs to take place on a track.
Train Train These games allow the player to take control of a train or otherwise focus on trains.
Transport Transport These games allow the player to take control of or otherwise focus transporting people or cargo using vehicles.
Truck Truck These games allow the player to take control of or otherwise focus on trucks. This includes racing, but also transport.

Theme

Setting
PCGW MobyGames Definition to be modified Notes Examples
Antarctica (none) The Thing
Africa Africa
Asia Asia
Oceania Oceania
Europe Europe
North America North America
South America (none)
Middle East Middle East
China China (Ancient / Imperial)
Classical Classical antiquity Ancient Greek and Roman, or use significant visual styles or themes from this period.
Cold War Cold War
Contemporary Contemporary
Cyberpunk Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi
Egypt Egypt (Ancient) Assassin's Creed Origins
Fantasy Fantasy
Historical Historical events
Industrial Age Industrial Age
Interwar Interwar Setting in the periods between 1918-1939, excluding games mainly set in World War I or World War II.
Japan Japan (Ancient/Classical/Medieval)
Medieval Medieval Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
Prehistoric Prehistoric
Post-apocalyptic Post-apocalyptic Fallout
Pre-Columbian Americas Pre-Columbian Americas
Sci-fi Sci-fi / futuristic
Piracy Sea pirates / Caribbean Sea pirates or taking place in the Caribbean. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Space (none) Star Citizen
Steampunk Steampunk Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura
Western Western Red Dead Redemption 2
World War I World War I Battlefield 1
World War II World War II Call of Duty

Art styles

PCGW MobyGames Definition to be modified Notes Examples
Anime Anime / manga Using an anime art style, including manga and hentai. Attack on Titan
Cartoon Sonic the Hedgehog
Comic book (none) Comix Zone (2010)
Cel-shaded (none) Wikipedia list XIII. Crackdown 3
FMV Full Motion Video (FMV) Games in which most of the game is presented as full motion video (FMV) or other forms of animations as well as live action. Many of these games are interactive movies where the player can from time to time choose a path to take with minimal or timed input. It also covers games where most of the game content is shown through full motion video. This art style refers to the gameplay content, not the cut-scenes. Dragon's Lair Trilogy
Live action Live action Games where a large part of the interactive gameplay makes use of live action scenes. This is an art style for videography that uses real actors in footage shot with cameras. It can be complemented with CGI, but the actors themselves are not animated. This art style is not related to the use of motion capture to animate characters. Digitised characters also do not apply. The live action scenes need to be part of the interactive gameplay. Games that use live action scenes exclusively for static cut-scenes use the game group Live action cut-scenes instead. A large amount of games with Live action as an art style for the interactive gameplay carry the art style Full Motion Video in addition. It is also used for Chromakey recordings with actors against a video backdrop or an animated background, as long as the actors are part of interactive gameplay sequences.
Video backdrop Video backdrop Games where the interactive gameplay largely or entirely takes place against a backdrop with recorded footage. The footage can be edited or enhanced, but it needs to have been recorded with cameras. These games then have other elements in the foreground, either animated characters, vehicles or other elements, or live action actors brought into the game using chromakey.

This genre is not to be used for titles where in interactive parts both the actors and the environment are filmed together. It also does not apply to games where the video backdrop is only used for cut-scenes and not the gameplay itself.

Vector art
Pixel art
Pre-rendered graphics Myst
Realistic
Stylized [1]
Abstract
Digitized [2]

Modes

Simply defines singleplayer or multiplayer, granularity will be provided by the Network table.
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Category Definition Examples Notes
Unused
PCGW MobyGames Definition to be modified Notes Examples
Local multiplayer Defined by Property:Local play modes.
Online only Only playable online. Defined by {{DRM}} by Property:Always online. Diablo III
Online multiplayer Defined by Property:Online play and Property:Online play modes.
LAN Defined by Property:LAN play modes.
Co-op Value within Property:Online play modes Property:LAN play modes Property:Local play modes.
Versus Value within Property:Online play modes Property:LAN play modes Property:Local play modes.
Asynchronous Defined by Property:Asynchronous multiplayer.
Hotseat Defined by Property:Local play modes.
Splitscreen

References