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It's indexed under Video Game Genres. And in fact, a genre is a trope.
However, tropes are only to be listed on works that actually exhibit the trope.
So if you see Game Mod on the page for a work that is a Game Mod, it's legit. If you see it on the page for a work that has a Game Mod, nuke it on sight.
i.e., if you go to The Legend Of Zelda and see "Game Mod: Title X is a mod that turns the game into a Space Opera," nuke it.
If you go to the page for Title X and see "Game Mod: This game is mod of The Legend Of Zelda that turns it into a Space Opera," that's legit.
It's similar to how you don't put Shout-Out on a work that is being shouted at (that's what the Referenced by… trivia is for), you put it on the page for the work that is doing the shouting.
Edited by SolipSchismThe same thing applies for Let's Play (even creator-made LPs), in case you're wondering.
2025: the year it all ends?Generally speaking, Game Mod is one of those self-evident category tropes that goes above the line, in the article's description. There is no need to list it discretely in the examples.
Edited by Fighteer "It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Sorry for dredging up a month-old ATT thread, but relevant to this, should the genre of a work (be it a film, book, television series, video game, whatever) be listed as a trope in its trope list? I've been deleting genres-as-trope-entries where I find them, but for all I know I'm enforcing a rule that only exists in my head.
^ This is the response I usually see, and it makes sense. Genre and Medium and overarching defines-the-entire-work stuff like that (not to mention the fact that such things would have really, really generic and repetitive example context) should be mentioned, but in the description, not in the example list.
So, going by this query, can I assume that this also goes for all other game genres, such as Party Game, Role-Playing Game, First-Person Shooter, etc?

Question: Is Game Mod supposed to be tagged as an trope?
Because if anything, it's actually a genre and not a trope in of itself.