I'm looking for a descriptive and relatively intuitive name for this UI element you very often find in game's settings screens. It's a list of options (labels) that you can horizontally run through and that usually convey a "from lower to higher" or "from worse to better" feeling when going from left to right.
Often this pattern is used to input numbers in this case this would be an "input stepper". This would fit to this element to since the name does not imply that only numbers can be selected. So I would go with something like the following:
A bit of Googling using terms such as Horizontal Selector, Horizontal Picker, Horizontal Carousel etc. leads to the realization that this UI element is simply a...
Single-element carousel
.. albeit with a few changes: no sliding animation, no looping, and no carousel slide marker
The UI element seems to take other forms as well:
Number pickers with horizontal scroll view
Image source and Android Library
Spinner/Dial Picker (iOS)
Timeline Datepicker
RecyclerView (Android)
