Not sure what kind of game to imagine next? Generate a real video game genre or subgenre, from classic arcade shooters to modern battle royales, to spark a project idea or settle a debate.
This generator draws from 200 real video game genres and subgenres across eight categories -- Action & Adventure, RPG & Character-Driven, Shooter & Combat, Strategy & Simulation, Sports & Racing, Puzzle & Party, Horror & Survival, and Platformer & Indie -- each with a description of its defining gameplay.
Every result here is drawn using crypto.getRandomValues() -- the Web Crypto API's cryptographically secure randomness -- instead of Math.random(), so it's genuinely unpredictable, not just statistically random. Learn more.
Game developers and hobbyists use it to spark a project idea when they want to build something outside their usual genre. Players use it to discover a genre they haven't tried, and it's also a quick way to settle a debate about how a specific game should be classified.
Generate draws one genre at random from the full 200-entry pool using the site's cryptographically secure randomness, guaranteed not to repeat whatever result is currently showing in single-result mode. Filtering by category narrows the pool before drawing, and each result comes with a description of its gameplay.
A sample of what this generator can draw, spread evenly across the full list:
Real -- all 200 are established genres and subgenres, not invented.
Yes -- use the filter button to pick one or more of the eight categories. Generate will then only draw from genres in the categories you've selected.
Not in single-result mode -- each new roll is guaranteed to differ from the one currently on screen.
Both -- it mixes well-known genres with more specific subgenres across all eight categories.
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