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
Build and manage a theme park
Theme Park · RollerCoaster Tycoon · Parkitect · Planet Coaster
These games all make park design, guest flow, and ride management the main job. The connection is obvious once you notice the amusement-park setting, but the board still gets some texture from the spread between Bullfrog, tycoon-era classics, and newer descendants.
medium
Fighting games built around weapons
SoulCalibur · Bushido Blade · Samurai Shodown · The Last Blade 2
These are fighting games where blades, polearms, and other weapons are not decorative flavor. The spacing, risk, and identity of the roster depend on armed combat rather than on bare-knuckle combo language.
hard
Death and restarting are part of the fiction
Minit · Planescape: Torment · Sifu · ZombiU
These games do not just reset because games reset. They build death, succession, resurrection, or repetition into the story logic, so starting over is part of the fiction rather than a purely external player convention.
tricky
You solve problems by rewriting the rules
Baba Is You · Hack 'n' Slash · Else Heart.Break() · The Magic Circle
Each of these games lets you reach into the system itself and alter how it behaves. Sometimes that means moving literal word blocks, sometimes it means hacking object properties or unfinished code, but the shared move is changing rules instead of merely obeying them.