I like Action Adventures with a Certain View!

Action! Adventure! The exploration of an intriguing, large environment! Mysterious characters with compelling motives, combat and traversal to get the blood pumping!

--But all from a certain view.

What do we call that viewpoint? Axonometric 3/4? Top-down oblique? Zelda-but-the-old-2D-ones-but-not-quite-because-the-perspective-is-sort-of-all-over-the-place? Old-school-JRPG-sprite-angle? Fine - but what about games like Oceanhorn which use this viewpoint but in 3D perspective?

Man. Finding a name for this perspective that everyone agrees on is a toughie.

We're going with 'Axonometric', as while this also covers the Isometric view (which we'd prefer not to be locked to), it DOES gives us a nicely alliterative title.

Whyfor this view?
* You can explore and fight with a 360 degree view of your environment, while also showing sufficient vertical faces of the surroundings to convey character and a sense of place. Unlike isometric, pixel art from this perspective avoids a preponderance of non-orthographic lines, making visuals less noisy.
* If characters have shadows, this viewpoint makes it very easy to track your position in the world - even under stressful circumstances, making it very suitable for action adventures.
* From a development standpoint, this view allows you to jettison the hateful busywork of managing a traditional third person camera, reduces the need to provide super-detailed models or sprites required for games closer to the action and (especially for games made in 3D) allows you to reuse models across levels by always showing a new angle to the player, delighting and engaging them.

The intention of this group is to collect and curate action adventures usually played from an Axometric, non-isometric view. The criteria for inclusion is fuzzy, as the viewpoint is loosely defined at this point. Additionally, as I'm looking for environments which have a specific personality and intentionality, this might exclude quite a few roguelikes.

Hopefully we'll find a better mission statement later on. Let's get started...!

Relevant articles:

* Game Dev Guide To Graphical Projections Part 1[medium.com] and Part 2[medium.com].

* Wikipedia on Oblique[en.wikipedia.org], and Axonometric Projection[en.wikipedia.org], Parallel Projection[en.wikipedia.org], and Isometric Graphics in Games & Pixel Art[en.wikipedia.org].