Tags

Tags are used to classify and organize games in Flashpoint for easier searching. Here, they have been organised into categories. You may use multiple tags per game, and you can use the category headers as tags too. If there is a tag that you feel would be useful, please ask a Staff Member on the Discord server, and we'll see if it's something that should be added. We don't want tags to be too specific, to the point where a tag exists solely for one game.

Action

These games are active and action-packed, whether they involve running, jumping, shooting, or something else.

Tag	Description	Example
Artillery	Games where you use various weapons, setting the power and angle, to fight your enemy	Tank Wars
Brawler	Progress through areas, beating up goons as you go. Usually 2D	Stick Brawl
Fighting	Two characters face off using combos and special techniques	Samurai Fighters
Platformer	Progress through the stage(s), jumping from object to object	Super Mario 63
Rail Shooter	The game is played with a viewpoint that moves automatically, with no input available to the player.	Xiao Xiao no. 4
Shooter	Any game where you use guns to shoot enemies	Alien Hominid
Vertically-Scrolling Shooter	The game is played with a playfield that scrolls from bottom to top (usually in a ship).	Enigmata 2

Adventure

In Adventure games, the player experiences an interactive story driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving.

Tag	Description	Example
Choose Your Own Adventure	Choose a path at specific junctions and see where the story takes you	The Henry Stickmin Series
Dating Sim	Pick options to take boys or girls on dates.	SimGirls
Escape the Room	A subset of the Adventure genre where you're in a single room / low amount of rooms, a general lack of story, and puzzles to solve to get out of it.	Cube Escape: The Cave
Point and Click	A specific subset of adventure games where your only controls are the mouse	Easy Joe
Roguelike	You have one life. Don't die, or you'll lose most if not all of your progress	Yet Another Roguelike
RPG	Games focused less on combat and more on exploration and puzzle solving. May or may not have detailed character stats	Sonny
Visual Novel	Story based games where you pick from preset choices	Sonic RPG

Arcade

Arcade games have easily graspable gameplay and a focus on getting a high score.

Tag	Description	Example
Breakout	Bounce a ball from a paddle to break all the bricks in a level	bloXplatter
Clicker	A game where you primarily click to increase numbers.	AdVenture Capitalist
Idle	A game where numbers go up while you're away. Most of the incremental games are idle ones.	NGU Idle
Pinball	A game involving a paddle, a ball, and brickbreaking	Pinbill
Pong	The classic game, now in Flash	PONGS
Rhythm	Press the right buttons to the beat of the music	F2Jam
Rock-Paper-Scissors	A game based off the classic three-way head-to-head mind game.	Pico vs. Uberkids
Runner	A game that usually involves you moving down a path automatically, avoiding obstacles in order to either get a high score (endless) or finish a level	Robot Unicorn Attack
Score-Attack	Your goal throughout the game is to get a high score	Starry Night
Tetris	Games based on the classic	Tetris 1989
Variety	Mini-game collections, or games where the gameplay changes frequently	Four Second Fury

Driving

Driving games involve steering a vehicle, whether to win a race, get the shortest time, or accomplish another goal.

Tag	Description	Example
Flying	Flying, but not fighting or racing. Usually in a plane or other airborne vehicle	Into Space 2
Motocross	2D Racing games with specific physics enabled	Dirt Bike
Parking	Park in a precise space, using any vehicle	Docking Perfection 2
Motocross	2D Racing games with specific physics enabled	Dirt Bike
Racing	Try to go faster than either the other drivers or the clock as you drive around a track	Cyclomaniacs

Educational

Educational games aim to teach something as you play.

Tag	Description	Example
Math	A game where you mostly solve math problems	Math Shootout
Quiz	A game that asks you questions about any particular subject matter. Some Quiz games are more parodies than educational, however.	50 States
Tutorial	A game that is more akin to a tutorial, showing you how to do something in an interactive fashion	Ultimate Spriting Tutorial
Typing	Games that teach you to type efficiently	Icarus Proudbottom Teaches Typing!

Puzzle

Puzzle games involve brainteasers of all types, from fast-paced matching games to hidden object puzzles.

Tag	Description	Example
Find	Find things that are hidden within the larger picture, or find differences between pictures	Pocket Creature ~Hidden Objects~
Jigsaw	Classic style of puzzle where you have differently shaped pieces and need to put them in the right spots	Ice-Age 4 Jigsaw Puzzle
Match-3	Swap and move objects around to match colours/shapes in lines	Bejeweled
Sokoban	Games that involve pushing boxes around an area into specific locations	Aggressive Sokoban
Word	Games based on anagrams, crosswords, or similar	Bookworm

Simulation

This type of a game attempts to simulate something from real life, like a card game or just walking around.

Tag	Description	Example
Card	Card games that don't focus on gambling	Solitaire
Gambling	Bet virtual money, win virtual money	Blackjack Elf
Sports	A recreation of any real-world sport, like baseball or football	Stick Cricket
Tabletop	Games that replicate board games, real-life or invented	Snakes and Ladders
Walking Simulator	A game that involves the player exploring a world by walking around it while the story unfolds around them. (Generally, if a game involves combat, platforming, or anything more than just walking around, it usually isn't a walking simulator.)	Dear Esther

Strategy

Strategy games come in many forms, but usually involve controlling units in an efficient way to defeat some kind of enemy.

Tag	Description	Example
Lane-Based Strategy	You and your opponent have one or more lanes with which to send units down to attack each other	Plants vs. Zombies Web Version
Node-Based Strategy	The player and the enemy each control 'nodes', which they can send units to and from.	Tentacle Wars
Real-Time Strategy	Create units and buildings, collect resources, and face an opponent who's doing the same things at the same time as you are	Creeper World: Evermore
Tower Defense	Build various towers to destroy the units your enemies send against you	Bloons TD 5
Turn-Based	Take turns with an opponent as you create units and buildings, move units, and order attacks	Sonny

Other

If a game doesn't seem to fit anywhere else, it will probably fit in one of these tags.

Tag	Description	Example
Dress Up	Choose outfits and hairstyles for a given character, or create an original character of your own	RPG Heroine Creator
Experimental	Nontraditional games that often explore new concepts in art or gameplay	Crumbling Room
Kissing	A strangely prevalent type of game where the gameplay revolves around characters kissing	Seaside Kissing
Microsite	Not so much a game as an interactive website backed up from the internet. Often exists to promote another product.	J.K. Rowling Official Site
Toy	Games with no objective, things to pass the time	Interactive Buddy

Themes

Tag	Description	Example
Adult	A game meant entirely for titillation.	Super Deepthroat
Anime	A game with an anime art style.	Anime Character Maker 2.2
Creative	Anything that facilitates user-created content.	Sonic Scene Creator 5
Daily	A game with content that updates or changes every day.	Drift n' Burn 365
Fantasy	A game with a fantasy setting, such as a fairy tale.	Talesworth Adventure Episode 1
Historical	A game based on a historical event or time period.	Western Front 1914
Holiday	Games with holiday themes like Christmas and Halloween get this tag	Snow Line
Horror	A game that intends to provide an unsettling, creepy, spooky, scary skele-cough atmosphere. Isn't exclusive to any other tag.	Exmortis
Level Editor	Games with level editors.	Warp
Music	If music is a major part of gameplay, then use this tag. Can also be used with the Creative tag for music creation applications.	Symphony
Physics	Objects in the game are affected by real world/akin to real world forces. Often applies to Puzzle games.	Red Remover
Science Fiction	A game with a futuristic or science fiction theme.	Alternator
Side-Scrolling	The game that's played with a playfield that scrolls from the left to the right. Sometimes ships, sometimes on foot. Usually applies to shooters or platformers.	Heli Attack 3
Space	Any game with an outer-space theme.	Planet Cruncher
Story-Driven	Story is a major focus of the game.	???
Western	Cowboys, six shooters and yeeing your last haw.	Wild West Showdown

Content Warnings

Tags that must be included if your game matches the criteria.

Tag	Description
Gore	Game contains realistic blood or guts
Seizure Warning	Game contains flashing effects that could trigger photosensitive epilepsy
Sexual Content	Game contains explicit or implied depictions of sexual acts or themes