Franchises

Platform series starring Tak. Avalanche's third game, The Great Juju Challenge, puts Tak and his brother Lok into a village contest.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video games span Konami’s late-1980s and 1990s arcade and home console beat ’em ups through Ubisoft and Activision’s 2000s–2010s tie-ins and into modern licensed releases such as Dotemu’s Shredder’s Revenge, Konami’s Cowabunga Collection compilation, and family-oriented Outright Games titles. Across platforms the series repeatedly returns Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo to co-op brawls against Shredder, the Foot Clan, and other Mirage/Nickelodeon villains.

Fighting-game series from Namco, now Bandai Namco. Matches are hand-to-hand, and the main games follow the King of Iron Fist Tournament and the Mishima family.

Japanese RPG series also known as Far East of Eden, created by Oji Hiroi and Red Company (later Red Entertainment) and published by Hudson Soft. It debuted on PC Engine CD-ROM² in 1989 with Tengai Makyō: Ziria, an early CD-ROM RPG known for voiced animated cutscenes, and grew through Manjimaru, spin-offs such as Kabuki Klash, and later remakes and ports across Super Famicom, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, and more.

Film-licensed action games. The Redemption, developed by Paradigm, follows the T-850 across the present and the future war.

Action-adventure sandbox developed and published by Re-Logic. Andrew Spinks began development in January 2011, and the Windows version released on 16 May 2011. Players explore a two-dimensional procedurally generated world with no set goal, gathering resources, crafting equipment, and fighting bosses. Terraria 2 was announced in October 2013 and has not shipped. The spin-off Terraria: Otherworld was canceled in 2018.

Accolade’s exotic-car racing series, later published by Infogrames, Atari, and Nacon. It runs from the 1987 original and Pitbull Syndicate’s late-1990s sequels through Eden Games’ open-world Test Drive Unlimited games and Nacon’s 2024 Solar Crown.

Tetris is Alexey Pajitnov’s falling-block puzzle series, licensed worldwide through The Tetris Company across arcade, home, and handheld platforms. Landmark Nintendo versions on Game Boy and NES helped define the brand, while later official releases span Spectrum HoloByte and Blue Planet Software ports, Arika’s Grand Master line, Ubisoft and Sega collaborations, Enhance’s Tetris Effect, and archival compilations such as Digital Eclipse’s Tetris Forever.

Buena Vista Games film tie-ins based on C. S. Lewis. Traveller’s Tales’ 2005 game follows Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy from wartime London into Narnia.

The Chronicles of Riddick video games are Starbreeze’s first-person stealth-action titles starring Vin Diesel’s Richard B. Riddick. Escape from Butcher Bay (2004) is a prison-break prequel to Pitch Black; Assault on Dark Athena (2009) pairs an HD remake of Butcher Bay with a new campaign aboard the merc ship Dark Athena.

Online racing series developed by Ubisoft Ivory Tower and published by Ubisoft. The Crew released on 2 December 2014 for PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox 360, on a scaled-down map of the contiguous United States. Asobo Studio led the Xbox 360 port. Ubisoft delisted the game on 14 December 2023 and shut its servers on 31 March 2024. The Crew 2 followed on 29 June 2018, adding boats and planes, and The Crew Motorfest released on 14 September 2023, set in Hawaii.

Starbreeze first-person shooters published by 2K, based on the Top Cow comic. The 2007 original was followed by The Darkness II in 2012.

Action role-playing series primarily developed by Bethesda Game Studios. The games emphasize free-form play in large open worlds, including Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim.

2014 Tango Gameworks survival horror published by Bethesda and directed by Shinji Mikami. Detective Sebastian Castellanos is pulled through a distorted nightmare world.

EA's licensed open-world adaptations of Francis Ford Coppola's films, following an original Corleone soldier through the movie plots. U.S. Gold also published a 1991 run-and-gun based on the trilogy.

THQ action games based on the Pixar film. Rise of the Underminer, developed by Heavy Iron Studios, continues after the movie as Mr. Incredible and Frozone fight the Underminer's robots.

SNK fighting series. The 2003 entry is the tenth game and the last on Neo Geo, and it brings the Orochi power back.

Naughty Dog action-adventure series set in a post-apocalyptic United States overrun by Cordyceps-infected humans. It follows survivors including Joel and Ellie.

Nintendo action-adventure series created by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka. Primarily developed and published by Nintendo, it centers on Link and Princess Zelda defending Hyrule—and sometimes other lands—from Ganon and other threats, across 2D and 3D entries from 1986 onward.

Film tie-in games based on Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings. The Two Towers is Stormfront’s beat-’em-up covering battles from the first two films.