violent video games
Pixelated combat entertainment
Video games featuring combat, gore, or other aggressive content as central gameplay elements.
The term appears most often in debates about whether such games cause real-world aggression—a claim that remains contested despite decades of research.
Parents worried about violent video games.
The category ranges from cartoonish fighting games to realistic military simulations.
- shooterOne who fires weapons
- mass shootingMulti-victim gun attack
- bloodBody's oxygen carrier
- goreGraphic bloody violence
- blood splatterScattered drops of blood
combat · killing · kill streak · aggression · controller · button mashing · multiplayer · first-person · headshot · respawn · weapon · massacre · carnage · rating · mature · parental controls · controversy · moral panic
- media violencecontent warnings, age restrictions, parental controls, V-chip, desensitization
violent video gamescozy games
puzzle games · Animal Crossing · music games · cooking games · sandbox games
violent video gameseducational software
Programs facilitating instruction
educational games · learning games · math games · serious games · Wii Fit
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