so..
a game isn't a software? 
First of all, a game is a type of software. It's full of data and
compiled programming codes.
The programs, routines, and symbolic languages that control the
functioning of the hardware and direct its operation.
Those codes are about programs, routines, and make use of
symbolic languages, that control your computer's hardware, such as
displaying images on screen using your CPU, graphics cards, etc,
accept keyboard and mouse inputs so your cute little character in
MapleStory can move around, so on and so forth.
