| ACTION | Action | Games are characterized by game play with emphasis on combat. | X |
| ADULT | Adult | Games intended for an adult audience. | X |
| ADVENTURE | Adventure | Games which cast the player as the protagonist of a story, normally requiring the player to solve various puzzles by interacting with people or the environment, most often in a non-confrontational way. | X |
| EDUCATIONAL | Educational | Games that attempt to teach the user using the game as a vehicle. | X |
| FIGHTING | Fighting | Games where players face off against each other or against computer-controlled characters in close combat. | X |
| MUSIC | Music | Games that challenge the player to follow sequences of movement or develop specific rhythms. | X |
| OTHER | Other | Product genre that is a categorization other than the specific genres listed on this code list. | X |
| PUZZLE | Puzzle | Games that require the player to solve logic puzzles or even navigate complex locations such as mazes. | X |
| RACING | Racing | Games that place the player in the driver's seat of a high-performance vehicle and require the player to race against other drivers or sometimes just time. | X |
| ROLE_PLAYING | Role playing | Games that have the player acting in the role of a specific type of "adventurer" or "adventurers" who specializes in a certain set of skills (such as combat, or casting magic spells) while moving through a linear predetermined storyline. | X |
| SHOOTER | Shooter | Games that emphasize shooting and armed combat. | X |
| SIMULATION | Simulation | Games that aim to simulate an experience, such as flying an aircraft, as realistically as practically possible, taking into account physics and other real-world limitations. | X |
| SPORTS | Sports | Games that emulate the playing of traditional physical sports. Some emphasize actually playing the sport, while others emphasize the strategy behind the sport. | X |
| STRATEGY | Strategy | Games that require careful and skilful thinking and planning in order to achieve victory. | X |
| TRADITIONAL | Traditional | Games that are based on popular board games or card games. | X |
| WRESTLING | Wrestling | Fighting games based on the sport of wrestling. | X |