| Console Classix | Available to play at Console Classix | 1977 / 2011 | 3488 games |
| Score | Player is given a score on their performance. Often an integral part of gameplay, such as the main goal. | 1976 / 2013 | 2958 games |
| Planet Earth | All or part of the story takes place on Earth of the Sol star system. | 1976 / 2014 | 2808 games |
| MAME | An Arcade games emulator available for almost any platform.
(clones and bootlegs are merged to the parent) | 1972 / 2006 | 2671 games |
| Walking | Player can or must move about on foot, regardless of speed. | 1976 / 2016 | 2529 games |
| Extra lives | Player character has multiple "lives". | 1978 / 2013 | 2455 games |
| Media: Download | Full game legally distributed as digital download. | 1983 / 2014 | 2300 games |
| Magic | Features anything definitely magical or strange mystic powers. | 1974 / 2014 | 1888 games |
| Future | Set in the future, as seen from the point of the game's release. | 1978 / 2014 | 1683 games |
| Monsters | Includes any kind of creatures with terrifying or otherwise horribly deformed/repulsive (monstrous) appearance, regardless if their personality matches this. Commonly assumed to be mindless savages. | 1974 / 2016 | 1550 games |
| Mêlée weapons | Player can use non-projectile weapons which require both the user and the target to be in direct contact with them. | 1978 / 2016 | 1538 games |
| Ubuntu Linux | Comes with/Installs very simply on Ubuntu. | 1976 / 2014 | 1500 games |
| Firearms | Player can use projectile weapons that use a controlled explosion to propel a bullet at the intended target. | 1981 / 2014 | 1480 games |
| Grid | Uses a grid of any shape or type. | 1976 / 2014 | 1458 games |
| Proprietary license | Distributed under a proprietary license, most often for commercial purposes and is unique per game. | 1983 / 2016 | 1453 games |
| Movie tie-in | Based on a movie or made into a movie. | 1974 / 2013 | 1414 games |
| Difficulty levels | Player has choice of game difficulty. | 1978 / 2013 | 1347 games |
| Language content: Insignificant | For games that give no instructions, significant story, nor any critical language based information; they can be intuitively operated without knowledge of any language. | 1972 / 2013 | 1327 games |
| Available on Steam | Available on the digital distribution (and by extension social networking service) by Valve. | 1988 / 2015 | 1323 games |
| Female protagonist | Player controls a female character. | 1981 / 2013 | 1255 games (12 characters) |
| Rating: ESRB E | Suitable for everyone. May contain minimal cartoon, fantasy or mild violence and infrequent use of mild language. | 1989 / 2013 | 1227 games |
| Soccer | 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. | 1972 / 2013 | 1207 games (2 characters) |
| Simple DirectMedia Layer | A cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. | 1986 / 2014 | 1193 games |
| Traditional game | Video game adaptation of a traditional game. Or uses real traditional gaming materials. | 1976 / 2013 | 1190 games |
| Rating: ESRB T | For ages 13 and older. Includes content that might be considered unsuitable for children under 13 years of age. | 1989 / 2013 | 1154 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. | 1975 / 2013 | 1145 games |
| Naturalistic | Not necessarily realistic. Has nothing overtly fantastic, be it magical, paranormal, psychic, mystic, super powers, technomagic, nor magical technology. | 1978 / 2015 | 1112 games |
| Boss battles | Includes one or more battles with enemies who are significantly more powerful than anything else thrown at the player prior, usually found at the end of a level. | 1981 / 2014 | 1083 games |
| Jumping | | 1981 / 2014 | 1081 games |
| Rectangular grid | Uses an ordinary grid of 4 sided convex shapes (rectangles, squares, etc.). | 1981 / 2014 | 1043 games |
