Explore the MobyGames database via genres and other classifications.
Basic Genres
- Action (53,140 games)
- Add-on (37,324 games)
- Adventure (16,895 games)
- Compilation (11,426 games)
- Educational (4,979 games)
- Gambling (1,112 games)
- Idle (149 games)
- Puzzle (15,078 games)
- Racing / Driving (5,796 games)
- Role-playing (RPG) (8,422 games)
- Simulation (12,167 games)
- Special edition (3,341 games)
- Sports (8,662 games)
- Strategy / tactics (14,538 games)
Perspective
Visual Presentation
Art Style
Pacing
Gameplay
- 4X (202 games)
- Action RPG (1,579 games)
- Arcade (17,671 games)
- Artillery (224 games)
- Beat 'em up / brawler (1,148 games)
- Board game (3,090 games)
- Cards / tiles (3,444 games)
- Chess (563 games)
- City building / construction simulation (1,222 games)
- Dating simulation (486 games)
- Falling block puzzle (1,353 games)
- Fighting (2,268 games)
- Gambling elements (71 games)
- Game show / trivia / quiz (1,328 games)
- Graphic adventure (2,957 games)
- Hack and slash (741 games)
- Hidden object (2,279 games)
- Hunting (277 games)
- Interactive book (187 games)
- Interactive fiction / text adventure (2,526 games)
- Japanese-style RPG (JRPG) (1,320 games)
- Japanese-style adventure (227 games)
- Life / social simulation (706 games)
- Managerial / business simulation (4,105 games)
- Massively Multiplayer (409 games)
- Mental training (294 games)
- Metroidvania (620 games)
- Mini-games (2,340 games)
- Music / rhythm (1,661 games)
- Paddle / Pong (1,375 games)
- Party game (787 games)
- Pinball (561 games)
- Platform (12,074 games)
- Puzzle elements (10,927 games)
- Quick Time Events (QTEs) (362 games)
- RPG elements (2,571 games)
- Rail shooter (336 games)
- Real-time strategy (RTS) (904 games)
- Real-time tactics (RTT) (55 games)
- Roguelike (1,179 games)
- Sandbox / open world (953 games)
- Shooter (16,691 games)
- Stealth (1,071 games)
- Survival horror (1,238 games)
- Tactical RPG (482 games)
- Tactical shooter (111 games)
- Tile matching puzzle (2,572 games)
- Time management (580 games)
- Timed input (170 games)
- Tower defense (650 games)
- Trading / collectible card (288 games)
- Tricks / stunts (566 games)
- Turn-based strategy (TBS) (932 games)
- Turn-based tactics (TBT) (44 games)
- Visual novel (4,893 games)
- Wargame (598 games)
- Word construction (847 games)
