{
  "scope": "Paid released games outside explicit descriptors 3/4; snapshot dates corrected as prior study; 2019-2025 full years, 2026 Jan-Aug separate",
  "activity_tags": [
    "2D Fighter",
    "2D Platformer",
    "3D Fighter",
    "3D Platformer",
    "4X",
    "Action",
    "Action RPG",
    "Action RTS",
    "Action Roguelike",
    "Action-Adventure",
    "Adventure",
    "Arcade",
    "Arena Shooter",
    "Auto Battler",
    "Automation",
    "Automobile Sim",
    "Base Building",
    "Baseball",
    "Basketball",
    "Battle Royale",
    "Beat 'em up",
    "Billiards",
    "Board Game",
    "Boomer Shooter",
    "Boss Rush",
    "Bowling",
    "Boxing",
    "Building",
    "Bullet Heaven",
    "Bullet Hell",
    "CRPG",
    "Card Battler",
    "Card Game",
    "Character Action Game",
    "Chess",
    "Choose Your Own Adventure",
    "City Builder",
    "Cleaning",
    "Collectathon",
    "Colony Sim",
    "Combat Racing",
    "Cooking",
    "Crafting",
    "Creature Collector",
    "Cricket",
    "Dating Sim",
    "Deckbuilding",
    "Decorating",
    "Desktop Companion",
    "Detective",
    "Dice",
    "Diplomacy",
    "Driving",
    "Dungeon Crawler",
    "Economy",
    "Education",
    "Escape Room",
    "Exploration",
    "Extraction Shooter",
    "FMV",
    "FPS",
    "Farming",
    "Farming Sim",
    "Fighting",
    "Fishing",
    "Flight",
    "Football (American)",
    "Football (Soccer)",
    "Gambling",
    "Game Development",
    "God Game",
    "Golf",
    "Grand Strategy",
    "Hack and Slash",
    "Hacking",
    "Heist",
    "Hero Shooter",
    "Hidden Object",
    "Hobby Sim",
    "Hockey",
    "Horror",
    "Hunting",
    "Idler",
    "Immersive Sim",
    "Incremental",
    "Interactive Fiction",
    "Inventory Management",
    "Investigation",
    "JRPG",
    "Job Simulator",
    "Life Sim",
    "Logic",
    "Loot",
    "Looter Shooter",
    "MMORPG",
    "MOBA",
    "Mahjong",
    "Management",
    "Match 3",
    "Medical Sim",
    "Metroidvania",
    "Mini Golf",
    "Mining",
    "Musou",
    "Mystery",
    "Mystery Dungeon",
    "Naval Combat",
    "On-Rails Shooter",
    "Open World Survival Craft",
    "Organizing",
    "Otome",
    "Outbreak Sim",
    "Parkour",
    "Party Game",
    "Party-Based RPG",
    "Pinball",
    "Platformer",
    "Point & Click",
    "Poker",
    "Political Sim",
    "Precision Platformer",
    "Programming",
    "Puzzle",
    "Puzzle Platformer",
    "RPG",
    "RTS",
    "Racing",
    "Real Time Tactics",
    "Resource Management",
    "Rhythm",
    "Roguelike",
    "Roguelike Deckbuilder",
    "Roguelite",
    "Rugby",
    "Runner",
    "Sailing",
    "Sandbox",
    "Shoot 'Em Up",
    "Shooter",
    "Shop Keeper",
    "Skateboarding",
    "Skiing",
    "Sniper",
    "Snooker",
    "Snowboarding",
    "Social Deduction",
    "Sokoban",
    "Solitaire",
    "Souls-like",
    "Space Sim",
    "Sports",
    "Stealth",
    "Strategy",
    "Strategy RPG",
    "Survival",
    "Survival Horror",
    "Tabletop",
    "Tactical",
    "Tactical RPG",
    "Tennis",
    "Third-Person Shooter",
    "Thriller",
    "Time Management",
    "Top-Down Shooter",
    "Tower Defense",
    "Trading",
    "Trading Card Game",
    "Traditional Roguelike",
    "Transportation",
    "Trivia",
    "Turn-Based Strategy",
    "Turn-Based Tactics",
    "Twin Stick Shooter",
    "Typing",
    "Vehicular Combat",
    "Visual Novel",
    "Volleyball",
    "Walking Simulator",
    "Wargame",
    "Word Game",
    "Wrestling"
  ],
  "content_admin_exclusions": [
    "Classic",
    "Controller",
    "Crowdfunded",
    "Cult Classic",
    "Early Access",
    "Free to Play",
    "Great Soundtrack",
    "Indie",
    "Kickstarter",
    "Masterpiece",
    "Multiplayer",
    "Singleplayer",
    "Software",
    "Steam Achievements",
    "Utilities"
  ],
  "rarefaction_n": 3000,
  "activity_pair_definition": "any two of the first five ranked activity tags among the returned top20",
  "tag_weighting": "one total vote per game spread over its retained tags",
  "interpretation": "Diversity of current advertised labels attached to release cohorts. Not historical tag vocabularies, actual mechanic diversity, originality, lineage, or gameplay verification."
}