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Video Games Database API

GameBrain is one of the largest video game database and game discovery service. And we are gladly sharing our 680,000+ games, search, and machine learning recommendations with the world.

Learn what the GameBrain games database API can do and build something cool with it!

Why Build on GameBrain

680,000+ games on over 70 platforms with millions of analyzed user reviews.
  • 680,000+games
  • 767 millionuser ratings
  • 122,000+critic ratings
  • 4.3 millionscreenshots
  • 420,000+videos
  • 70+platforms

Relevant & Visual Data at Your Fingertips

Enrich your website with visual, relevant and data rich snippets

Unique Game Scores

Unique Game Brain Score (GBS) consisting of user and critic ratings. The GBS combines thousands of player and critic reviews and combines them into a single meaningful score - no other meta score combines that many data points into a single score.

Rich Data at Your Fingertips

  • screenshots and videos for every game
  • review summary with positive and negative summaries and multiple aspects
  • related and similar games
  • links to stores with offer prices
  • genres, tags, themes, play modes
  • comprehensive semantic search with filters and sorting

MCP for the AI powered era

  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a new way to connect Game Brain data with any chatbot.
  • Use the MCP to provide your chatbot with relevant game data, e.g. Claude Desktop or ChatGPT.
  • Setup is as easy as copy and paste. See the instructions in the docs.

Ready to start?

Check out our Pricing Plans
Free
$0/m.

For personal and hobby projects


High Score
$19/m.

For serious projects


God Mode
$139/m.

For ambitious projects


Enterprise
Contact us

For anything that requires closer cooperation


Here are a few example use cases

Search first person shooters from 2025

Find games by a natural language search query.

query=first+person+shooter+from+2025
GET https://api.gamebrain.co/v1/games?query=first+person+shooter+from+2025

Get game suggestions by partial name

Find games with only partial input. This is especially useful for query suggestions while the user is typing.

query=kingdom+colimit=3
GET https://api.gamebrain.co/v1/games/suggestions?query=kingdom+co&limit=3

Get game details

Get all the details about a game (in this example Kingdom Come Deliverance II). Those details include screenshots, videos, offers, the Game Brain Score, and so much more.

GET https://api.gamebrain.co/v1/games/1273796

Get similar games

Get similar games to a game (in this example Kingdom Come Deliverance II).

GET https://api.gamebrain.co/v1/games/1273796/similar

Frequently Asked Questions

A token (or "point" or "credit") is a cost associated with each API endpoint. You can see how many tokens are required to make a request - which also depends on how you set the parameters - in the documentation of each endpoint. If you exceed your daily token limit, you will be charged for each additional token used.

A request is a single API call and is used to measure the number of requests per second and concurrent requests. Concurrent requests are requests that you started and that are running in parallel. For example, let's assume your plan allows for two concurrent requests and you run two searches in quick succession and they both take three seconds to respond then you have two concurrent requests. If you try calling the API with another request during that time you will receive an error until at least one of the requests finished. You can learn more about this in the rate limiting documentation.

The uptime guarantee is the amount of time the API is available. We guarantee 99.9% uptime for all plans.

The support level is the level of support you receive. The free plan only includes support on our Discord server, while the paid plans include email or scheduled phone support.

You can subscribe to paid plans using Stripe which allows you to pay via Credit Card. For custom plans, custom payment options can be negotiated. You do not have to provide payment information to get started on the free plan.

The backlink requirement is a link to gamebrain.co on your website or application. This is required for the free plan, but not for the paid plans. You can copy this link template: <a href="https://gamebrain.co/api">Video Games API</a>.

Reach out

We'd love to hear from you. Send us an email to get answers to any questions you have or chat with the community in our Discord Chat.