Genres & Themes - twitchtv/igdb-contribution-guidelines GitHub Wiki

Genres

Genre is the first tier in our 3-tier categorization system. Choose the most fitting genre(s) to broadly describe the game.

Theme

Theme is the second tier in our 3-tier categorization system. Choose the most fitting theme(s) to describe the general theme in the game, similar to what genres would be for movies.

Examples: Monkey Island would have the theme “Comedy” while F.E.A.R would have the themes “Horror” and “Action”.