Explore the MobyGames database via genres and other classifications.
Basic Genres
- Action (54,765 games)
- Add-on (38,939 games)
- Adventure (18,084 games)
- Compilation (11,798 games)
- Educational (5,160 games)
- Gambling (1,150 games)
- Idle (183 games)
- Puzzle (16,048 games)
- Racing / Driving (5,872 games)
- Role-playing (RPG) (8,757 games)
- Simulation (12,663 games)
- Special edition (3,492 games)
- Sports (8,799 games)
- Strategy / tactics (14,871 games)
Perspective
Visual Presentation
Art Style
Pacing
Gameplay
- 4X (210 games)
- Action RPG (1,636 games)
- Arcade (18,118 games)
- Artillery (230 games)
- Beat 'em up / brawler (1,180 games)
- Board game (3,182 games)
- Cards / tiles (3,593 games)
- Chess (585 games)
- City building / construction simulation (1,287 games)
- Dating simulation (552 games)
- Falling block puzzle (1,392 games)
- Fighting (2,289 games)
- Gambling elements (78 games)
- Game show / trivia / quiz (1,427 games)
- Graphic adventure (3,112 games)
- Hack and slash (785 games)
- Hidden object (2,419 games)
- Hunting (281 games)
- Interactive book (211 games)
- Interactive fiction / text adventure (2,622 games)
- Japanese-style RPG (JRPG) (1,422 games)
- Japanese-style adventure (266 games)
- Life / social simulation (773 games)
- Managerial / business simulation (4,295 games)
- Massively Multiplayer (434 games)
- Mental training (310 games)
- Metroidvania (652 games)
- Mini-games (2,514 games)
- Music / rhythm (1,692 games)
- Paddle / Pong (1,401 games)
- Party game (807 games)
- Pinball (542 games)
- Platform (12,390 games)
- Puzzle elements (11,306 games)
- Quick Time Events (QTEs) (368 games)
- RPG elements (2,695 games)
- Rail shooter (342 games)
- Real-time strategy (RTS) (935 games)
- Real-time tactics (RTT) (73 games)
- Roguelike (1,288 games)
- Sandbox / open world (1,013 games)
- Shooter (17,231 games)
- Stealth (1,119 games)
- Survival horror (1,291 games)
- Tactical RPG (517 games)
- Tactical shooter (112 games)
- Tile matching puzzle (2,843 games)
- Time management (619 games)
- Timed input (175 games)
- Tower defense (689 games)
- Trading / collectible card (301 games)
- Tricks / stunts (571 games)
- Turn-based strategy (TBS) (960 games)
- Turn-based tactics (TBT) (75 games)
- Visual novel (5,507 games)
- Wargame (621 games)
- Word construction (915 games)
Interface/Control
Sports Themes
- Athletics (81 games)
- Baseball (655 games)
- Basketball (562 games)
- Bowling (249 games)
- Boxing (274 games)
- Cricket (119 games)
- Darts / target shooting (231 games)
- Dodgeball (53 games)
- Fishing (288 games)
- Football (American) (565 games)
- Football (European) / Soccer (1,673 games)
- Golf (736 games)
- Hockey (493 games)
- Horse / derby (262 games)
- Olympiad / mixed sports (220 games)
- Paintball (24 games)
- Ping pong / table tennis (160 games)
- Pool / snooker (284 games)
- Racquetball / squash (295 games)
- Rugby (104 games)
- Sailing / boating (104 games)
- Skateboarding (199 games)
- Snowboarding / skiing (377 games)
- Surfing (59 games)
- Tennis (683 games)
- Volleyball (143 games)
- Wakeboarding (11 games)
- Wrestling (301 games)
Educational Categories
- Ecology / nature (499 games)
- Foreign language (247 games)
- Geography (432 games)
- Graphics / art (415 games)
- Health / nutrition (202 games)
- History (453 games)
- Math / logic (1,457 games)
- Music (252 games)
- Pre-school / toddler (740 games)
- Reading / writing (1,099 games)
- Religion (107 games)
- Science (478 games)
- Sociology (135 games)
- Typing (131 games)
Vehicular Themes
- Agricultural / industrial (121 games)
- Automobile (3,011 games)
- Bike / bicycling (263 games)
- Bus (85 games)
- Flight / aviation (2,489 games)
- Helicopter (563 games)
- Hovercraft (155 games)
- Mecha / giant robot (846 games)
- Motorcycle (637 games)
- Naval / watercraft (1,220 games)
- Off-roading (592 games)
- Self-propelled artillery (12 games)
- Snowmobile (30 games)
- Space flight (2,198 games)
- Street racing (535 games)
- Tank (874 games)
- Track racing (1,776 games)
- Train (412 games)
- Transport (124 games)
- Truck (254 games)
- Vehicle simulator (1,375 games)
- Vehicular combat (830 games)
Setting
- Africa (528 games)
- Age of Discovery / Enlightenment (60 games)
- Asia (710 games)
- China (Ancient / Imperial) (324 games)
- Classical antiquity (396 games)
- Cold War (245 games)
- Contemporary (4,780 games)
- Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi (969 games)
- Egypt (Ancient) (246 games)
- Europe (1,854 games)
- Fantasy (25,114 games)
- Historical events (1,414 games)
- Industrial Age (97 games)
- Interwar (243 games)
- Japan (Ancient/Classical/Medieval) (406 games)
- Japan (Modern/Futuristic) (773 games)
- Medieval (1,011 games)
- Middle East (438 games)
- North America (1,620 games)
- Oceania (390 games)
- Post-apocalyptic (1,597 games)
- Pre-Columbian Americas (54 games)
- Prehistoric (258 games)
- Sci-fi / futuristic (17,404 games)
- Sea pirates / Caribbean (370 games)
- South America (278 games)
- Steampunk (366 games)
- Western (433 games)
- World War I (187 games)
- World War II (1,197 games)
Narrative Theme/Topic
Add-on
- Audio (Music / SFX / Voice) (741 games)
- Currency (1,910 games)
- Customization / outfit / skin (11,286 games)
- Edition upgrade (93 games)
- Extras (332 games)
- Game mode (1,026 games)
- Item (6,379 games)
- Map / level (11,120 games)
- Mechanics (364 games)
- NPC / enemy (1,197 games)
- Other (7,555 games)
- Player unit (7,696 games)
- Story / mission (5,226 games)
- Upgrade (Skill / Boost) (671 games)