A common theme of these games is escape or survival from the equivalent of a zombie apocalypse, with weapons, ammunition, and armor limited. These games tend to focus on the survival of the player-character in a horror setting with limited resources, and thus tend to be more geared as an action game or action-adventure game. One of the best-defined and most common types of horror games are survival horror games. However, there are some specific areas in the broad horror game classification that have been identified as unique subgenres in horror. In such cases, these games are still categorized by their original gameplay genre, the horror aspect considered a literary aspect of the game. Many gameplay-defined genres have numerous games with horror themes, notably the Castlevania platform game series uses monsters and creatures borrowed from numerous horror mythos. This broad association to the narrative theme of horror games leads to the lack of well-defined subgenres of horror games. Horror games is the only narrative-based classification that has generally not followed this pattern, with the narrative genre label used broadly for games designed to scare players.
Historically, the classification of video games into genres ignores the narrative themes, which would include science fiction or fantasy games, instead preferring systems based on the style of gameplay or at times, types of game modes or by platform. Unlike most other video game genres, which are classified by their gameplay, horror games are nearly always based on narrative or visual presentation, and use a variety of gameplay types. The term may also be used to describe tabletop games with horror fiction elements. A horror game is a video game genre centered on horror fiction and typically designed to scare the player.
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