Find a game by description
Tell us what you remember. We'll name the closest games.
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How it works
Describe the game you can't name: what you did in it, what it looked like, when and on what you played it. We check the description against 300,000+ games from Steam and IGDB, including console, handheld, flash and mobile games that never came to Steam.
A language model reads your description and lists the games it thinks you mean. We check every guess against our catalogue of 300,000+ games (the whole Steam store plus IGDB, which covers consoles, handhelds, arcades, flash and mobile), so each result is a real game with a year and platforms. We also search the catalogue's game descriptions for rare details from your text, to catch games the model doesn't know.
The model then ranks that shortlist and says which of your details each game matches. It sees only what our catalogue says about each game plus what it knows for sure, and it is told to say nothing rather than guess.
On 114 real r/tipofmyjoystick posts with a known answer, the right game came first 25% of the time and made the top ten 39% of the time. Treat the list as candidates, not a verdict, and use the buttons under the results to narrow it down.
We keep descriptions to improve and train the search. How we use them
Questions
What if my game isn't in the results?
Add a detail you haven't mentioned yet: a character, a level, a menu screen, the box art, a sound. Or pick the platform and decade under the results. A few games, mostly obscure flash and educational ones, aren't in any database we can search.
Do you keep what I type?
Yes, unless you pressed "Reject" in the cookie banner. We store your description (cut at 2,000 characters, with email addresses and phone numbers masked) together with the games we showed and what you marked, and use it to improve the search, including training our own search model. The description is also sent to the language model that answers it (Ollama Cloud). You can have your searches erased: the privacy policy explains how.
Which games can it find?
Anything in the Steam store or in IGDB: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and Sega consoles, handhelds, arcade machines, flash and browser games, and mobile games. Games that are on Steam link to their page here, where you'll also find similar games.
Game data: Steam and IGDB.com.
For AI assistants: this search is also a tool in our MCP server, no key needed