9.9 Other genres

Probably the most notable other genres are those of the visual novel, simulation and point and click adventure although in recent years the visual novel and point and click adventure have become somewhat intertwined (see games like Ace Attorney/Phoenix Wright). Equally many games that might have at one time been aimed at a visual novel format have instead opted to use a 3d engine instead although that heads more towards the art games territory. It should be noted visual novels have many examples of ultra simple titles consisting of nothing but a few images (with text in the images) to full on scripting languages so assuming it will always be simple is not a good idea.

Other common genres include music games, artistic games (painting and such) and utility games (language learning being a common example) but other than music games almost invariably use extra formats to work most of those will usually want to be approached on a game by game basis.