| Name | Descshort | |
|---|
| Planet Earth (Terra) | All or part of the story takes place on Earth of the Sol star system. | 1238 games |
| Future | Set in the future, as seen from the point of the game's release. | 959 games |
| Soccer (Football) | Soccer, known as football by most of the world. Played with a round ball only goalies can touch with their hands. Not to be confused with American Football. | 857 games |
| Magic (Mystic powers) | Features anything definitely magical or strange mystic powers. | 849 games |
| Movie tie-in | Based on a movie or made into a movie. | 799 games |
| Anime tie-in | Based on anime or was made into anime. | 742 games |
| Media: Download (Digital distribution) | Full game distributed as digital download. | 731 games |
| Mêlée weapons | Player can use non-projectile weapons which require both the user and the target to be in direct contact with them. | 706 games |
| Monsters | Includes any kind of monsters. | 698 games |
| Female protagonist | Player controls a female character. | 648 games (12 characters) |
| Media: CD-ROM | Comes on one or more CD-ROMs (Only for systems that allow more than one type of media). | 642 games |
| Firearms | Player can use projectile weapons that use a controlled explosion to propel a bullet at the intended target. | 640 games |
| Space aliens (Extraterrestrials) | Features (sentient) extraterrestrial alien creatures. | 610 games (1 characters) |
| 1 life (No extra lives) | Player has no extra lives nor continues. | 607 games |
| Extraterrestrial setting | Set somewhere away from Earth. | 596 games |
| Robots (Droids) | Includes robots of any kind. | 568 games |
| Traditional game | Video game adaptation of a traditional game. Or uses real traditional gaming materials. | 532 games |
| 20th century (19XX) | Takes place during the 20th century (from 1901-01-01 to 2000-12-31). | 514 games |
| DirectX 9 (DX9) | Supports or requires DX9 compliant hardware. Possibly needs only the run-time in case no hardware acceleration is used. | 506 games |
| Militant protagonist (Soldier protagonist) | The protagonist is member of some organized military force. | 489 games |
| Group (Party;Squad;Squadron) | Player is part of a group and can issue some form of instructions to (or, in some instances, assume full control of) the other members. | 479 games |
| Windows XP (WinXP;Windows NT 5.1;Windows NT 5.2) | Runs natively on WinXP and is supported by the developers/publishers on it. | 466 games |
| Shopping | Includes shops, merchants, traders or item dispensers where the player can purchase new items. | 436 games |
| UVL: Missing images | Has some images, but there are known gamestates or events that could be beneficial to have additionally among the images. Such as title screens, screens of specific game modes or "windows", and so forth. | 422 games |
| City (Metropolis;Megapolis;Urban) | Takes place in any large city. | 403 games |
| Sorcery (Witchcraft;Spellcasting) | Player can or must employ knowledge of the arcane, cast magic spells or do other sorcerous deeds. | 403 games |
| OpenGL (Open Graphics Library;OGL) | Uses or can use OGL for graphics. | 394 games |
| Mecha (メカ;Mech;Piloted walker robots) | Features mechas or other piloted walker robots. | 385 games |
| Motorsport | Collection of sports involving motorised vehicles. | 377 games |
| Baseball | | 354 games |
