Franchises

Chaosium horror RPG created by Sandy Petersen in 1981, based on H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Investigators uncover paranormal mysteries and risk sanity as much as their lives. Licensed video games include Infogrames’ adventure titles, Dark Corners of the Earth, The Wasted Land, and Cyanide’s 2018 adaptation.

Activision first-person shooter series that began in 2003. Infinity Ward developed the first games, later joined by Treyarch, Sledgehammer Games, and Raven Software.

Techland first-person shooter Western series created by Paweł Selinger in 2006. Four games include Bound in Blood, The Cartel, and Gunslinger.

The Behemoth’s cartoon beat ’em up about four knights hunting a dark wizard for a stolen crystal and kidnapped princesses. Debuted on Xbox Live Arcade in 2008, then expanded to PlayStation 3, Steam, and Remastered editions on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch—plus Behemoth’s own Switch physical cart.

Puzzle game developed by Atlus and directed by Katsura Hashino. It released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in Japan on 17 February 2011 and in North America on 26 July 2011. Vincent Brooks spends his nights at the Stray Sheep, then climbs collapsing block towers in his nightmares. Sega released the Windows version, Catherine Classic, on 10 January 2019. Catherine: Full Body, developed by Studio Zero, adds a new character named Rin. It launched on PlayStation 4 in 2019, on PlayStation Vita in Japan, and on Nintendo Switch in 2020.

Spanish developer Pyro Studios’ World War II real-time tactics series about a small Allied special-forces unit behind enemy lines. Eidos published the originals; Kalypso later issued HD remasters and the 2025 prequel Commandos: Origins from Claymore Game Studios. Strike Force (2006) briefly shifted the series into a first-person tactical shooter.

Supernatural third-person action franchise from Remedy Entertainment, centered on Jesse Faden and the Federal Bureau of Control inside the Oldest House.

Valve’s tactical multiplayer shooter series that began as a Half-Life mod in 1999 and went retail in 2000. Team rounds of bomb defusal and hostage rescue define Counter-Strike, Condition Zero, Source, Global Offensive, and Counter-Strike 2, with licensed spin-offs such as Namco’s Neo arcade and Nexon’s Online/Nexon Steam ports.

Naughty Dog’s PlayStation mascot platformer starring Crash against Doctor Neo Cortex. Classic trilogy and Crash Team Racing defined late-’90s Sony; later entries from Traveller’s Tales and Radical spanned Wrath of Cortex through Mind Over Mutant. Activision’s revival brought the N. Sane Trilogy remasters, Nitro-Fueled, and Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time.

Crytek first-person shooter series. Soldiers in nanosuits fight North Koreans, mercenaries, and ancient aliens called the Ceph.

CD PROJEKT RED’s Night City setting based on Mike Pondsmith’s Cyberpunk tabletop games—spanning Cyberpunk 2077, Phantom Liberty, and related official books and comics.