The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to games:

A game is a structured type of play usually undertaken for entertainment or fun. Games can also be work, art or an educational tool.^[1]

Individuals participate in game-play for various reasons, depending upon the aspect the particular game covers. These include:

• Education
  • Learning analytics
• Entertainment
  • Play
  • Social relation
• Pleasure
  • Hobby
• Strategy
  • Tactics

• Game classification
  • By cause of uncertainty

• Sports
• Party games
• Tabletop games
• Video games
• Other games

• Frisbee
• Goalpost
• Marble (toy)
• Racket (sports equipment)
• Stadium

• Dice
• Game board
• Player character
• Playing card

• Player – Participant in a game.
  • Gamer – Participant in video games or tabletop games
  • Athlete – Participant in sports
    • Coach – Person who trains athletes.
      • Player-coach – Athlete who trains athletes.
    • Racecar driver – Participant in auto racing.

• Pre-modern
• Modern

• Dynamic game difficulty balancing
• Dynamic music
• Emergent gameplay
• Game balance
• Game design process
• Game mechanics
• House rule – Unofficial modifications to official rules of a game.
• Lusory attitude
• Simultaneous action selection

• Gold sink
• Intelligent Systems
• Video game modding

• Cooperative game
• Evolutionary game theory
• Extensive form game
  • Information set
• Kingmaker scenario
• List of games in game theory
• Normal-form game
• Payoff matrix

• List of board games
  • List of cross and circle games
• List of card games
• List of dice games
• List of domino games
• List of role-playing games
• List of sports
• Lists of video games
• List of best-selling video games
• List of traditional children's games
• List of games that Buddha would not play

• Game club
• Game semantics
• Ludology
• Play
• Puzzle
• Sport
• Toy
• List of puzzle topics
• List of impossible puzzles
• List of puzzle-based computer and video games