Spoilers ahead: for the puzzle and the movies/games
This page reveals all categories and answers for this puzzle. It also discusses plot details, story endings, and other spoilers for some of the movies/games shown.
easy
Developed by Supergiant Games
Bastion · Transistor · Pyre · Hades
medium
Xbox 360 launch titles
Perfect Dark Zero · Kameo: Elements of Power · Project Gotham Racing 3 · Condemned: Criminal Origins
hard
Played through an in-world computer interface
Papers, Please · Her Story · Orwell · Hypnospace Outlaw
Each game presents play through a diegetic system the character is actively using, such as a checkpoint terminal, police database, surveillance desktop, or retro operating system.
tricky
Cardinal direction in the title
Northgard · Eastward · West of Loathing · South Park: The Stick of Truth
The click is noticing that each title contains one of the four cardinal directions, but the set mixes strategy, RPG, comedy, and licensed satire so it does not read as a genre cluster first.