- Artistic ones
- Dwarf-lites
- Film tie-ins
- Ones which have been made into a successful media franchise
- Ones that have just made you angry on the Internet
- Casual games
- Mobile games
- Marketed ones
- Indie
- Those which, when viewed from a distance, resemble a comic book
- Sonic the Hedgehog
my categorization schema is more like a binary search tree, and the first step has become "is it like Prey (2017)?"