Franchises

Volition action-adventure series published by THQ and later Deep Silver. It follows the 3rd Street Saints, a gang from the Saints Row district of fictional Stilwater.

FromSoftware action-adventure series directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, following the shinobi Wolf through a reimagined Sengoku Japan with posture-based sword combat and a prosthetic arm.

Croteam first-person shooter series. Sam "Serious" Stone fights Mental, an extraterrestrial overlord who tries to destroy humanity across time.

Konami psychological survival-horror franchise that began with Team Silent’s 1999 PlayStation original. Known for fog-shrouded towns, unreliable narrators, and creature designs that externalize characters’ guilt and trauma across remakes and spin-offs.

2012 United Front Games action-adventure published by Square Enix. Hong Kong-American cop Wei Shen goes undercover in the Sun On Yee triad.

Rebellion Developments tactical third-person shooter series. Players act as a sniper, using stealth and distance rather than direct assault.

Sega's high-speed platform series starring Sonic, beginning on Mega Drive in 1991. Classic 2D stages, 3D adventures, and crossovers follow the blue hedgehog against Dr. Eggman.

Bandai Namco weapons-based fighting series that began with Soul Edge in 1996. Warriors chase the cursed sword Soul Edge and its holy counterpart Soul Calibur across a historical-fantasy 16th century.

Video games based on the animated series, including Obsidian Entertainment's 2014 RPG The Stick of Truth, made with South Park Digital Studios and published by Ubisoft.

Video games starring Marvel Comics' Spider-Man, released across many platforms including consoles and mobile.

Action-adventure stealth series that began in 2002. NSA black-ops agent Sam Fisher of Third Echelon uses light and darkness as core gameplay.

Licensed video games based on the Nickelodeon animated series SpongeBob SquarePants and its films, spanning platformers, adventure, party, and other genres since Legend of the Lost Spatula in 2001. Most early titles were published by THQ; Activision held the license for many releases from 2013 to 2015, and THQ Nordic currently publishes the series.

Vehicular combat series begun with Bally Midway’s 1983 arcade classic Spy Hunter, later ported to home systems and revived by Midway with 2000s SpyHunter remakes and sequels culminating in Warner Bros.’ 2012 reboot.

Platform series starring the purple dragon Spyro, begun by Insomniac Games on PlayStation in 1998 and later continued across consoles and handhelds by Universal Interactive, Vivendi, and Activision. After the Legend of Spyro reboot trilogy (2006–2008), the series returned with Toys for Bob’s Spyro Reignited Trilogy remasters in 2018.

Star Raiders is a space combat simulator created by Doug Neubauer and published by Atari, Inc., originally released for Atari 8-bit computers in March 1980 and later ported to the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, and Atari ST. The series includes the 1986 sequel Star Raiders II and a 2011 remake by Incinerator Studios for PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.

Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry that began with the 1966 television series Star Trek and expanded into films, series, novels, and licensed video games. Interactive titles have ranged from adventure and strategy games to shooters and MMOs under publishers including Interplay, Activision, Bethesda, and Ubisoft.

Star Wars is an American media franchise created by George Lucas that began with the 1977 film Star Wars and grew into films, television, novels, comics, and video games set in a shared space-opera galaxy. Lucasfilm has published licensed interactive titles across decades under LucasArts, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and others.

Star Wars: Battlefront is a first- and third-person shooter series set in the Star Wars galaxy, launched by LucasArts with Pandemic Studios in 2004 and later continued by EA DICE with reboots in 2015 and 2017.

BioWare role-playing series set four thousand years before the Star Wars films. Players choose light or dark as a Jedi confronting Darth Malak, then as the Exile in Obsidian's sequel, with BioWare's The Old Republic MMO continuing the era.