Madden a sports game, and ToeJam & Earl was… whatever the hell it was. When the medium was relatively simple, it was easy to put things into nice, neat boxes that immediately clued you into what type of game you were about to experience. But over the past few generations, games have grown far more complex and varied and, in turn, have outgrown the vocabulary we use to define them. The breadth and depth of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s systems give it shades of action, adventure, RPG, stealth, and world sim, without fully fitting into one of those distinct categories.