Every game is like a carefully prepared meal, where each dish, ingredient, spice and garnish are in the right proportions, and each course is served at the right time to create the perfect dining experience.
What if a system allowed you to identify the recipe of a game? What if you could create a gameplay experience with your unique blend of ingredients? Our taxonomy system enables you to do this, and more.
Video Game Taxonomy: An Overview
Our taxonomy is a classification system that has evolved over a decade, fine-tuned by our in-house experts. It allows you to understand every aspect of a game, from fundamentals, like genre, theme and gameplay mechanics to more subjective and nuanced elements such as its moods and vibes. It was built by tearing down games and identifying various elements, big and small, to see what made each game work, what features they possessed and how they emphasised or played down elements to create a distinctive gaming experience. In essence, it tells you what features a game has, and how prevalent any feature is in the game. Simply put, the taxonomy of a game is like its recipe.