What video game genre does Wikipedia list for Splatoon?

Wikipedia lists Splatoon as a third-person shooter. The label describes the game’s camera perspective: players control an Inkling from behind and slightly above the character while aiming ink-based weapons around the environment.

Splatoon uses the familiar combat structure of a shooter, but its objective is broader than simply defeating opponents. In Turf War, two teams cover as much of the stage as possible in their own color of ink. Players can fire ink, splat enemies, refill their supply, and transform into squid form to swim through friendly ink.

That combination sometimes leads people to classify Splatoon primarily as an action game, platform game, or territory-control game. Those descriptions can capture parts of its design, but “third-person shooter” is the genre designation given in the game’s Wikipedia infobox. The original title also includes a single-player campaign and several multiplayer modes.

Splatoon’s genre identity became a series convention. Splatoon 2 and Splatoon 3 retain the third-person perspective and ink combat while adding new weapons, stages, story content, and online modes. The creative presentation is colorful and playful, but the underlying mechanics still fit the shooter category.