Explore the MobyGames database via genres and other classifications.
Basic Genres
- Action (54,450 games)
- Add-on (38,489 games)
- Adventure (17,857 games)
- Compilation (11,749 games)
- Educational (5,116 games)
- Gambling (1,149 games)
- Idle (173 games)
- Puzzle (15,870 games)
- Racing / Driving (5,851 games)
- Role-playing (RPG) (8,696 games)
- Simulation (12,511 games)
- Special edition (3,468 games)
- Sports (8,763 games)
- Strategy / tactics (14,785 games)
Perspective
Visual Presentation
Art Style
Pacing
Gameplay
- 4X (208 games)
- Action RPG (1,629 games)
- Arcade (18,036 games)
- Artillery (228 games)
- Beat 'em up / brawler (1,171 games)
- Board game (3,161 games)
- Cards / tiles (3,563 games)
- Chess (579 games)
- City building / construction simulation (1,269 games)
- Dating simulation (526 games)
- Falling block puzzle (1,385 games)
- Fighting (2,285 games)
- Gambling elements (76 games)
- Game show / trivia / quiz (1,417 games)
- Graphic adventure (3,088 games)
- Hack and slash (779 games)
- Hidden object (2,364 games)
- Hunting (281 games)
- Interactive book (209 games)
- Interactive fiction / text adventure (2,606 games)
- Japanese-style RPG (JRPG) (1,407 games)
- Japanese-style adventure (255 games)
- Life / social simulation (755 games)
- Managerial / business simulation (4,241 games)
- Massively Multiplayer (429 games)
- Mental training (306 games)
- Metroidvania (647 games)
- Mini-games (2,450 games)
- Music / rhythm (1,688 games)
- Paddle / Pong (1,392 games)
- Party game (797 games)
- Pinball (538 games)
- Platform (12,313 games)
- Puzzle elements (11,187 games)
- Quick Time Events (QTEs) (367 games)
- RPG elements (2,666 games)
- Rail shooter (342 games)
- Real-time strategy (RTS) (932 games)
- Real-time tactics (RTT) (70 games)
- Roguelike (1,252 games)
- Sandbox / open world (997 games)
- Shooter (17,142 games)
- Stealth (1,106 games)
- Survival horror (1,275 games)
- Tactical RPG (511 games)
- Tactical shooter (112 games)
- Tile matching puzzle (2,805 games)
- Time management (615 games)
- Timed input (172 games)
- Tower defense (676 games)
- Trading / collectible card (299 games)
- Tricks / stunts (570 games)
- Turn-based strategy (TBS) (951 games)
- Turn-based tactics (TBT) (69 games)
- Visual novel (5,410 games)
- Wargame (618 games)
- Word construction (907 games)
Interface/Control
Sports Themes
- Athletics (81 games)
- Baseball (651 games)
- Basketball (561 games)
- Bowling (248 games)
- Boxing (271 games)
- Cricket (119 games)
- Darts / target shooting (231 games)
- Dodgeball (53 games)
- Fishing (287 games)
- Football (American) (563 games)
- Football (European) / Soccer (1,672 games)
- Golf (733 games)
- Hockey (491 games)
- Horse / derby (260 games)
- Olympiad / mixed sports (219 games)
- Paintball (24 games)
- Ping pong / table tennis (160 games)
- Pool / snooker (283 games)
- Racquetball / squash (295 games)
- Rugby (104 games)
- Sailing / boating (103 games)
- Skateboarding (199 games)
- Snowboarding / skiing (377 games)
- Surfing (59 games)
- Tennis (681 games)
- Volleyball (142 games)
- Wakeboarding (11 games)
- Wrestling (299 games)
Educational Categories
- Ecology / nature (495 games)
- Foreign language (245 games)
- Geography (431 games)
- Graphics / art (413 games)
- Health / nutrition (200 games)
- History (448 games)
- Math / logic (1,443 games)
- Music (249 games)
- Pre-school / toddler (738 games)
- Reading / writing (1,090 games)
- Religion (107 games)
- Science (473 games)
- Sociology (134 games)
- Typing (131 games)
Vehicular Themes
- Agricultural / industrial (121 games)
- Automobile (3,000 games)
- Bike / bicycling (257 games)
- Bus (85 games)
- Flight / aviation (2,476 games)
- Helicopter (556 games)
- Hovercraft (155 games)
- Mecha / giant robot (835 games)
- Motorcycle (635 games)
- Naval / watercraft (1,206 games)
- Off-roading (590 games)
- Self-propelled artillery (11 games)
- Snowmobile (30 games)
- Space flight (2,187 games)
- Street racing (531 games)
- Tank (875 games)
- Track racing (1,766 games)
- Train (407 games)
- Transport (124 games)
- Truck (252 games)
- Vehicle simulator (1,373 games)
- Vehicular combat (822 games)
Setting
- Africa (524 games)
- Age of Discovery / Enlightenment (59 games)
- Asia (693 games)
- China (Ancient / Imperial) (315 games)
- Classical antiquity (394 games)
- Cold War (242 games)
- Contemporary (4,634 games)
- Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi (960 games)
- Egypt (Ancient) (242 games)
- Europe (1,823 games)
- Fantasy (24,859 games)
- Historical events (1,407 games)
- Industrial Age (96 games)
- Interwar (242 games)
- Japan (Ancient/Classical/Medieval) (404 games)
- Japan (Modern/Futuristic) (755 games)
- Medieval (995 games)
- Middle East (436 games)
- North America (1,588 games)
- Oceania (381 games)
- Post-apocalyptic (1,586 games)
- Pre-Columbian Americas (53 games)
- Prehistoric (253 games)
- Sci-fi / futuristic (17,283 games)
- Sea pirates / Caribbean (365 games)
- South America (268 games)
- Steampunk (364 games)
- Western (428 games)
- World War I (185 games)
- World War II (1,196 games)
Narrative Theme/Topic
Add-on
- Audio (Music / SFX / Voice) (733 games)
- Currency (1,905 games)
- Customization / outfit / skin (11,098 games)
- Edition upgrade (93 games)
- Extras (328 games)
- Game mode (1,005 games)
- Item (6,333 games)
- Map / level (10,943 games)
- Mechanics (351 games)
- NPC / enemy (1,179 games)
- Other (7,510 games)
- Player unit (7,649 games)
- Story / mission (5,167 games)
- Upgrade (Skill / Boost) (667 games)