Hello! I have found that figuring out what you want to play in these jams can be hard with 272 entries of very different kinds of games! It is also hard to stand out when you aren't able to highlight your genre. Here is a work in progress list of games by genre that I am putting together: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17VoDozhc9qvIfTTVYwKQa-5_0EEjRg1JPgyoNp8x3Qg/...

The Current Genre Categories are:

- Horror (Creepy / Atmospheric / Psychological)

• Witchlight Woods
• Corpse Flower
• Goat Hill Mansion
  
• VETO
• Phantasmiac
• Tricks, Treats and Mirrors
  
• Undergrowth

- Horror (Disturbing Themes / Gore)

• Genesis
• Dad’s Dinner Stories
  
• Babelomania

- Comedy

• Help! I Took My Little Brother to a Halloween Party and the Popular Kids want to Sacrifice Him to a Demon!
• Not my Body
• The Subtle Art of Trying to Contact the Dead
• The Death Night Show
  
• Horsementween

- Mystery / Thriller

• Death and Faeology
• Secrets in Green
  
• The Stars Under Lockehurst
  
• The Hermetic Tower
  
• Necromance
  
• Lydia's Labyrinth

- Romance / Dating Sim (General)

• I fell in love with an emo mermaid
• Killer Chat
• A Date with Death
  
• Halloween Party at Grendel's

- Romance (GL/Lesbian)

• LoveBites
  
• Wish Upon the End of the World!
• Dyn Mawr
• UnderHolo
• Shut-in Vampire
• The River Bride
• Oto-hime

-Romance (BL/Gay)

 - Cozy / Cute / Heartfelt

• A Witch is Getting Married
• Pippa and Your Phantasmal Problem
  
• Spider girl in my basement? Nah, there's no one

- Avante Garde / Artsy / Concept Exploration

• Wax Wings
• Sacrificial God
  

-Fantasy

• Automaton of Second London

-Science Fiction

If I haven't put your game on here and you would like it added or think it is in the wrong genre, feel free to comment with your games genre. Also feel free to make suggestions of other games to add to categories, or suggestions around the genre categories if something seems like it's missing. To try and make this easier for individual games to be noticed, I think it makes sense to limit it to the one genre that best describes a game and makes it stand out, as most Spooktober games will be spooky!

Thank you for the great initiative! Our game, Babelomania, is a horror adventure. Since it has gore (although it can be censored), I guess it can go under the second category :)

https://jpde.itch.io/babelomania

Thanks for your work! My game, VETO, would fall into dystopian horror, in the (Creepy / Atmospheric / Psychological) category!

This is amazing idea! Our game The Stars Under Lockehurst would def go into the mystery/ thriller category :> Good luck with the sorting 

if you told me a year ago my work would be featured under 'disturbing themes/gore', I would have been very skeptical. thanks for the mention!

suggesting phantasmiac for psychological horror and uhh i'm not actually sure which horror catfish in disguise is. is it disturbing enough for that category

Phantasmiac

Catfish In Disguise

Great idea to organize everything like this!

I'd like to add our game Tricks, Treats and Mirrors onto the list. The Horror (creepy, atmospheric) category would be the best fit from this, but I'd personally describe it as more of a horror-comedy.

Great initiative! I think a more organized list like this benefits all of us. Our game, The Hermetic Tower, fits perfectly into the Mystery / Thriller category.

Hi! Thank you for this great idea! Could you add our game, Halloween Party at Grendel's, to the Romance/Dating Sim category? Our main character Hazel does everything for love :)

This is awesome! Thank you!

Thank you for this list!  Necromance (https://itch.io/jam/spooktober-2024/rate/2946406) is somewhere between a mystery with elements of romance, comedy, and horror.  I would probably put it in the mystery category first and foremost as discovering what happened in the past is the largest element of the game.

Awesome idea!! horsementween is a pretty silly (comedy) game :D Thank you for working on this list!!

Some GL/Lesbian/Yuri games
Wish Upon the End of the World! https://itch.io/jam/spooktober-2024/rate/2984434
Dyn Mawr https://itch.io/jam/spooktober-2024/rate/3006970
A Witch is Getting Married (already up there as cozy)
UnderHolo https://itch.io/jam/spooktober-2024/rate/3007063
Shut-in Vampire https://itch.io/jam/spooktober-2024/rate/2962854
The River Bride https://itch.io/jam/spooktober-2024/rate/2998669
Oto-hime https://itch.io/jam/spooktober-2024/rate/2986566

I think Lydia's Labyrinth would probably fit best under the mystery category if you dont mind 😁 This is such a good idea❤️

https://valhallions.itch.io/lydiaslabyrinth 

Suuuuper late to the party (sorry!) but I just want to thank you so much for this list paperwren! This would definitely help me pick out what to play this weekend >:3c

I think our game Undergrowth fits under the psychological horror category if you're still accepting entries!

https://azufx.itch.io/undergrowth