my @matchers = (
    qr/(Lz0|PLATO)/i, 'Apps',
    qr/(SKIDROW|POSTMORTEM|RELOADED|THETA|TiNYiSO|HI2U|TE|FLT|PROPHET|Unleashed|OUTLAWS|ALiAS|JAGUAR)/i, 'Games',
   ...
);
for (my $idx = 0; $i < @matchers; $i += 2) {
   if ($release_name =~ $matchers[$i]) }
      $category = $matchers[$i + 1];
      print "[INFO] Category: $category";
      last;  # stop after the first category was found
   }
}
# code not tested