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Borderlands (video game)

Gearbox Software · 2009

Borderlands (2009) is a role-playing shooter developed by Gearbox Software. It combines first-person shooter action with RPG systems—including four distinct Vault Hunters, branching skill trees, mission-driven progression, and a procedural loot engine generating over 15 million weapon and gear variations. Its cell-shaded-like art style gives Pandora a comic-book appearance. Players fight hostile wildlife and human forces on the fictional planet while seeking a fabled Vault.

Civilization VI

Firaxis · 2016

Civilization VI is a turn-based 4X strategy game where players grow a single civilization from antiquity to the near future by exploring, expanding, exploiting, and exterminating.

Borderlands 2

Gearbox Software · 2012

Borderlands 2 is a shooter built around loot as feedback, class skills as rhythm, and repetition as reward. Its design commits to systems over spectacle—and it works.

NBA 2K23

2K Sports · 2022

NBA 2K23 is a historically segmented basketball simulation. It divides the NBA into four playable eras — 1983–84, 1991–92, 2002–03, and 2022–23 — each with distinct arenas, logos, jerseys, rosters, draft classes, broadcast packages, and modifiable rules.

BioShock

Ken Levine / Irrational Games · 2007

BioShock is a first-person shooter with role-playing customisation and stealth elements. You play as silent protagonist Jack, guided through Rapture toward objectives. You battle enemies using traditional weapons and plasmids—magic-like superpowers that consume EVE and can unlock new areas. Weapons are upgraded at scattered stations and fitted with varied ammo. Health is tracked and restored with consumables. Plasmids grant superpowers like fire or electricity, and can unlock new areas by melting ice or tripping locks. Using plasmids requires EVE, replenished via hypos or consumable food and drink. The player has a health meter that decreases when they take damage and can restore it with food or medical packs found throughout Rapture.

Civilization IV

Firaxis · 2005

Civilization IV is a 4X turn-based strategy game built on the Gamebryo engine. It uses the empire-building model: players construct, expand, exploit, and exterminate across a procedurally generated square grid map.