Table 3. Types of digital educational games for Medical Education .
| Types of Games | Citations | Game Name and Designer (Examples retrieved from Wikipedia.org) |
| Card games | [13, 34, 36] | Magic: The Gathering (Richard Garfield) |
| Board games | [ 13, 34] | Ticket to ride (Alan R. Moon) |
| Simulation | [13] | The Sims Online (William Ralph Wright) |
|
Role-playing |
[13, 22] | Final Fantasy XI (Hiromichi Tanaka) |
| [37] | Geriatric Medication Game, Saint Louis College of Pharmacy | |
| Frame games | [36] | Portal (Valve Corporation) |
| Puzzles | [22, 36] | Minesweeper (Curt Johnson) |
| Cross-words | [36] | Digital Cross Words (USA today) |
| TV show format | [ 13] | Grey’s Anatomy (Shonda Rhimes) |
| Virtual learning 3D platform | [21] | Second Life (Linden lab) |
| Game show |
[34] |
The Chamber (Rick Schwartz) |
| Slide presentation | Concentration 9 (Lora O’Neil) | |
| Multi media | Magnet Mania Scratch off (TCD Communications, NY) | |
| Strategy game | [22] | Dungeons and Dragons (Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson) |
|
3D First person shooter game |
[22, 38] |
Half-Life (Valve Corporation) |
| 2D non–first-person shooter game | [38] | Chessmaster (Ubisoft Romania) |
| Arcade games | [22] | Periscope (David Rosen) |