Explore the MobyGames database via genres
Basic Genres
Perspective
Visual Presentation
Art Style
Pacing
Gameplay
- 4X
- Action RPG
- Arcade
- Artillery
- Beat 'em up / brawler
- Board game
- Cards / tiles
- Chess
- City building / construction simulation
- Dating simulation
- Falling block puzzle
- Fighting
- Gambling elements
- Game show / trivia / quiz
- Graphic adventure
- Hack and slash
- Hidden object
- Hunting
- Interactive book
- Interactive fiction / text adventure
- Japanese-style RPG (JRPG)
- Japanese-style adventure
- Life / social simulation
- Managerial / business simulation
- Massively Multiplayer
- Mental training
- Metroidvania
- Mini-games
- Music / rhythm
- Paddle / Pong
- Party game
- Pinball
- Platform
- Puzzle elements
- Quick Time Events (QTEs)
- RPG elements
- Rail shooter
- Real-time strategy
- Roguelike
- Sandbox / open world
- Shooter
- Stealth
- Survival horror
- Tactical RPG
- Tactical shooter
- Tile matching puzzle
- Time management
- Timed input
- Tower defense
- Trading / collectible card
- Tricks / stunts
- Turn-based strategy
- Visual novel
- Wargame
- Word construction
Interface/Control
Sports Themes
- Athletics
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Bowling
- Boxing
- Cricket
- Darts / target shooting
- Dodgeball
- Fishing
- Football (American)
- Football (European) / Soccer
- Golf
- Hockey
- Horse / derby
- Olympiad / mixed sports
- Paintball
- Ping pong / table tennis
- Pool / snooker
- Racquetball / squash
- Rugby
- Sailing / boating
- Skateboarding
- Snowboarding / skiing
- Surfing
- Tennis
- Volleyball
- Wakeboarding
- Wrestling
Educational Categories
Vehicular Themes
Setting
- Africa
- Asia
- China (Ancient / Imperial)
- Classical antiquity
- Cold War
- Contemporary
- Cyberpunk / dark sci-fi
- Egypt (Ancient)
- Europe
- Fantasy
- Historical events
- Industrial Age
- Interwar
- Japan (Ancient/Classical/Medieval)
- Japan (Modern/Futuristic)
- Medieval
- Middle East
- North America
- Oceania
- Post-apocalyptic
- Pre-Columbian Americas
- Prehistoric
- Sci-fi / futuristic
- Sea pirates / Caribbean
- South America
- Steampunk
- Western
- World War I
- World War II