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GameDive A MooreMetrics tool

Video game recommendations

Find games that play your way.

19,188 video games profiled on 17 dimensions, from open worlds and story to horror and humor. Describe the game you want, or start from games you already love.

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Games
19,188
Dimensions
17
Scale
−4 to +4

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Two ways to find your next game

Set the dimensions that matter to you and switch off the rest. Zero is the average game; move toward either end to ask for more or less of a trait.

Space, robots, and futuristic technology.

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From −4, No sci-fi, to +4, Sci-fi. Zero is the average game.

Magic, monsters, and invented worlds.

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From −4, No fantasy, to +4, Fantasy. Zero is the average game.

Fear, dread, and survival.

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From −4, Not scary, to +4, Horror. Zero is the average game.

How freely you can roam a large world.

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From −4, Linear, to +4, Open world. Zero is the average game.

How much the game is driven by narrative and characters.

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From −4, Little story, to +4, Story-driven. Zero is the average game.

Playing with or against other people.

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From −4, Single-player, to +4, Multiplayer. Zero is the average game.

Gathering, building, and making things.

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From −4, No building, to +4, Build & craft. Zero is the average game.

Procedurally generated runs where death sends you back to the start.

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From −4, Not roguelike, to +4, Roguelike. Zero is the average game.

Guns, seen through your character's eyes.

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From −4, No shooting, to +4, FPS. Zero is the average game.

How funny the game tries to be.

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From −4, Serious, to +4, Comedy. Zero is the average game.

One-on-one combat and brawlers.

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From −4, No fighting, to +4, Fighting game. Zero is the average game.

Made by small, independent studios.

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From −4, Big studio, to +4, Indie. Zero is the average game.

Whether kids can play.

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From −4, Adults only, to +4, Kid-friendly. Zero is the average game.

Word games, quizzes, and puzzles.

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From −4, No trivia, to +4, Words & trivia. Zero is the average game.

Real-world sports and racing.

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From −4, No sports, to +4, Sports. Zero is the average game.

How much the game is aimed at a female audience.

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From −4, Less, to +4, More. Zero is the average game.

Running and jumping across levels.

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From −4, Not a platformer, to +4, Platformer. Zero is the average game.

How it works

Every game measured the same way

  1. 1

    Each game is profiled

    Every one of the 19,188 games was rated on a long list of questions about its genre, world, mechanics, and audience.

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    17 dimensions

    A psychometric model condenses those ratings into 17 dimensions, each scaled from −4 to +4 around the average game. The sliders on this page set targets on those same scales.

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    Two ways to match

    Describe what you want finds the games whose profile sits closest to your settings. Start from games you like finds the games whose full rating profile correlates most strongly with the ones you named.

The data behind GameDive is available through the MooreMetrics API.