Noun: Visual Novel; Plural Noun: Visual Novels Visual novels are games whose gameplay is predominately based on reading, or advancing written action or dialogue.“This visual novel is over nine-thousand words!” Not dissimilar “choose your own adventure” books, visual novels (or “VNs”) are
Noun: Swippy-swappy; Plural Noun: Swippy-swappies A type of puzzle that is solved by “swapping” the positions of one or more pieces on a playing board. Swippy-swappies are a form of puzzle game. They start with an image, which is divided into tiles.
Noun: Smol; Plural Noun: Smols A character who appears young, or is smaller than other characters. “Don’t be deceived; she’s a smol!” The word “smol” (when used by me, DatWombat) describes a character that is (generally) small, and super cute. A smol
Noun: Slider-puzzle; Plural Noun: Slider-puzzles A type of puzzle that is solved by “sliding” one or more pieces on a playing board. Slider puzzles start with an image, which is subsequently divided into tiles, and (traditionally) the bottom-right tile is removed from
Noun: Point-n’-clicker; Plural Noun: Point-n’-clickers Point-n’-clickers are games played with the mouse, and generally based on observation and hidden objects. Otherwise called a “point-‘n-click” game, point-‘n-clickers are games based on acute observation and puzzle solving. They are seldom action packed, instead granting
Noun: Memory Puzzle; Plural Noun: Memory Puzzles Memory Puzzles are games that are based on turning over and “matching” pairs of face-down cards.
Nyanco Space is a top-down obstacle dodgin’ game about your adventure to rescue Nyanco (who’s totally not a self-insert).
Nyanco Channel is a silly horror game not dissimillar from Five Nights at Freddy’s, a game of managing a limited power supply as you watch and guard yourself from deadly entities.
Yomi Alliance is lewd visual novel with many branching paths (requiring multiple play-throughs to access).
Yokai’s Secret is another H-puzzle game, but (to my knowledge) one of a kind.
