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Unify Role Playing (RPG) genre#1621

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  • Role playing games -> Role Playing (RPG)
  • RPG -> Role Playing (RPG)
  • Action RPG -> Action Role Playing (ARPG)

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IGDB lists it as Role-playing (RPG). May be good to align with them.

Also, do you think ARPG should be Action / Role-playing (RPG) ?

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guoyunhe commented Feb 13, 2026

IGDB lists it as Role-playing (RPG). May be good to align with them.

I am okay with that.

Also, do you think ARPG should be Action / Role-playing (RPG) ?

It seems that there is only one game marked Action RPG, not enough to have new genre. So let's do it like this.

@RobLoach RobLoach merged commit 4c856a6 into libretro:master Feb 15, 2026
@guoyunhe guoyunhe deleted the unify-role-playing-genre branch February 16, 2026 02:52
guoyunhe added a commit to guoyunhe/libretro-database that referenced this pull request Mar 7, 2026
* Unify Role Playing (RPG) genre

* fix: standardize genre terminology from "Role Playing (RPG)" to "Role-playing (RPG)" in Game Boy metadata
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