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Rating |
Content Descriptor(s) |
Platform(s) |
Publisher |
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Early Childhood |
No Descriptors |
Wii |
CYBIRD |
| Rating Summary: This is an activity game based on the children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Young players can learn the alphabet by associating words and pictures with each letter, engage in drawing and coloring exercises, and be introduced to over 140 basic English words.... [more] |
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Everyone |
Mild Violence |
MAC, PC |
Tri Synergy Inc. |
| Rating Summary: This is a seek-and-find puzzle game in which players search for hidden items on a screen full of jumbled objects. Players follow the story of a young woman who explores the world for priceless antiques. Along the way, players can encounter violent situations: a tranquilizer gun is used to take "ca... [more] |
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Everyone |
Comic Mischief |
MAC, PC |
Encore Software |
| Rating Summary: In this adventure/activity game, players must fix all the things that have gone wrong before a big wedding in DinerTown. Players complete activities (e.g., finding hidden objects in neighborhood streets) and interact with several characters along the way. A couple of tongue-in-cheek encounters acc... [more] |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
PC |
Tri Synergy Inc. |
| Rating Summary: This is a puzzle game in which players arrange colored "nectar drops" to create matching groups-of-three. Players collect honey for each group of nectar they create, and they are scored based on the amount of honey collected.... [more] |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
MAC, PC |
Encore Software |
| Rating Summary: This is a strategy game in which players operate food shops and serve items to customers as fast as possible. Players earn money for completing tasks efficiently and are able to enhance their shops by purchasing upgrades.... [more] |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
PlayStation 3 |
Game Republic, Inc. |
| Rating Summary: This is a strategy game in which players set up and develop a settlement on a game board. The goal is to complete the settlement first. Players can build structures, roll dice to collect resources, and trade products with others.... [more] |
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Everyone |
Simulated Gambling |
Nintendo DS |
Zoo Games, Inc. |
| Rating Summary: This is a simulation game in which players manage chocolate candy factories around the world. Players can travel to other countries, find recipes, and buy/sell the candies throughout the different locations. In one mini-game, players can wager the money they have earned on a roll of the dice.... [more] |
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Everyone |
Comic Mischief |
PC |
Digital Clay Studios, LLC |
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Everyone |
Alcohol Reference |
MAC, PC |
Tri Synergy Inc. |
| Rating Summary: This is a cooking simulation game in which players prepare various courses and entrees from a list of recipes. Player chop, dice, grate and grill a variety of dishes from around the world. Players are scored based on the speed and accuracy of their dish preparation. Alcohol products such as wine a... [more] |
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Everyone |
Comic Mischief |
Nintendo DS |
Disney Interactive Studios |
| Rating Summary: This is a rhythm game in which players follow on-screen prompts to move through action stages in outer space, forests, and mountains with Disney characters (e.g., Stitch). As players progress through each stage, they occasionally encounter enemy creatures (e.g., bunnies and aliens) that can be cle... [more] |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
Nintendo DS |
Zoo Games, Inc. |
| Rating Summary: This is an adventure game in which players complete puzzles and search for hidden items in a fantastical kingdom. Players follow the story of a woman who explores the kingdom in search of her missing husband.... [more] |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
MAC, PC |
Encore Software |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
PC |
Tri Synergy Inc. |
| Rating Summary: This is a puzzle game in which players rotate tiles on a game board to connect flower tiles with one another. In between levels, players can read about the whimsical fairy world of Lumendor.... [more] |
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Everyone |
Animated Blood |
MAC, PC |
Tri Synergy Inc. |
| Rating Summary: This is a pet care simulation game in which players can breed, sell, and tend to the well-being of several varieties of fish. Some breeds are predatory to others, and if left in the same tank for too long, the clashing fish will eat each other. The game depicts a small, brief mist of blood when a ... [more] |
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Everyone |
Comic Mischief |
Wii |
DK-GAMES |
| Rating Summary: This is an action game in which players swim around a small section of water and gobble up as many fish as possible. Players earn points for consuming the fish in rapid succession while avoiding larger, inedible fish. When players complete a round, a message sometimes appears that reads, "That’s *... [more] |
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Everyone |
Comic Mischief, Mild Language |
PSP |
Creat Studios, Inc. |
| Rating Summary: This is a platformer game in which players run around a "cartoony" version of the underworld ("Hell") as a small demon creature (a "good" devil). The colorful stages are filled with lava-rivers, chasms, and rocks that must be traversed to reach the goal—heaven. Players can poke a trident into litt... [more] |
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Everyone |
Comic Mischief |
PlayStation 3 |
Creat Studios, Inc. |
| Rating Summary: This is an arcade-style puzzle game in which players guide a ball with a hamster inside it (i.e., a "hamster ball") through a series of winding platforms. Players must maneuver their hamster ball over ramps, down funnel tubes, and around neon fences to reach a goal at the end of each stage. In an ... [more] |
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Everyone |
Mild Cartoon Violence |
PC |
Xibalba Studios |
| Rating Summary: This is a racing game in which players slip and slide across icy tracks in a race to the finish line. Players can create an icy trail that acts as a barrier to other racers; if a racer crashes into an opponent’s trail, they are knocked out (i.e., "K.O."). The still-frame cutscenes account for the ... [more] |
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Everyone |
Alcohol and Tobacco Reference, Mild Language |
MAC, PC |
Encore Software |
| Rating Summary: This is a trivia game based on the TV show Jeopardy! Players answer questions from a series of categories in order to earn points and outperform their opponents. Among the hundreds of questions and answers, a handful of them reference alcohol and tobacco; for example, "Detective who chomps ... [more] |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
PC |
iWin, Inc. |
| Rating Summary: This is a puzzle game in which players arrange colored jewels on a game board to create matching groups-of-three. Players follow the story of a man who travels the world in search of a secret about his family’s ancestry.... [more] |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
Nintendo DS |
Destineer |
| Rating Summary: This is a collection of pet-themed puzzle games. Players can complete slide puzzles, "spot-the-difference" challenges, and various jigsaw puzzles. ... [more] |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
Nintendo DS |
Destineer |
| Rating Summary: This is a collection of wild-animal-themed puzzle games. Players can complete slide puzzles, "spot-the-differences" challenges, and various jigsaw puzzles.... [more] |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
Nintendo DS |
Destineer |
| Rating Summary: This is a collection of nature-themed puzzle games. Players can complete slide puzzles, "spot-the-differences" challenges, and various jigsaw puzzles.... [more] |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
Wii |
XS Games LLC |
| Rating Summary: This is a collection of sports games in which players can compete in matches of basketball, ice hockey, and soccer. Players can earn "skill points" for good performances and can use special moves (e.g., an extended jump) to gain an edge over their opponents.... [more] |
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Everyone |
Comic Mischief |
MAC, PC |
Tri Synergy Inc. |
| Rating Summary: This is a time management game in which players are tasked with successfully running seven different restaurants. Players manage the restaurants by completing cooking mini-games and serving customers in a timely manner. If a customer goes unattended for too long, his face blinks red, "cartoony" st... [more] |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
Nintendo DS |
505 Games |
| Rating Summary: This is a collection of educational mini-games designed to teach players how to write and recognize letters. Mini-games include tracing outlines of letters, finding words that start with a certain letter, and choosing the correct letter to complete a word.... [more] |
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Everyone |
Alcohol Reference, Mild Cartoon Violence |
PC |
Viva Media LLC |
| Rating Summary: This is an arcade-style strategy game in which players essentially bounce a ball at objects on a playing field to break them apart. Players can collect "power-ups" such as lasers, bombs, or even cannons to more quickly destroy the objects. Brief bursts occur when objects are blown apart, accompani... [more] |
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Everyone |
Mild Violence |
PC |
Digital Clay Studios, LLC |
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Everyone |
Mild Cartoon Violence |
MAC, PC |
Encore Software |
| Rating Summary: This is a collection of mini-games featuring stylized, "cartoony" versions of Marvel Comics superhero characters. Players can walk through puzzles as Iron Man, play Solitaire with a superhero card deck, and collect character icons in a "match-three" mini-game. In one mini-game, players set ... [more] |
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Everyone |
Mild Cartoon Violence |
PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 |
CAPCOM |
| Rating Summary: This is a side-scrolling action platformer in which players control one of two small androids that run, jump, shoot, and fly through 2D environments. Players can fire projectiles (e.g., electric clouds, fire, ice, rockets) from their arm cannon to defeat enemies that disappear from the screen in a... [more] |
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Everyone |
Mild Violence |
PC |
Digital Clay Studios, LLC |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
Nintendo DS |
505 Games |
| Rating Summary: This is a dance simulation game in which players follow on-screen prompts to practice ballet movements. Players can also engage in mini-games such as swimming to increase strength and being a waitress to earn money.... [more] |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
Wii |
505 Games |
| Rating Summary: This is a dance simulation game in which players follow on-screen prompts to practice ballet movements. Players can perform poses and dance moves from classic ballets such as Danse Russe Trepak and Giselle.... [more] |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
Nintendo DS |
505 Games |
| Rating Summary: This is a collection of mini-games in which players clean up different rooms of a house. Mini-games include putting toys away, scrubbing the walls, and sweeping hardwood floors.... [more] |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
Nintendo DS |
505 Games |
| Rating Summary: This is a pet care simulation game in which players can raise a chimpanzee and tend to its daily needs. Players feed, pet, brush, and play with their pet to develop a strong bond and to ensure that its various statuses (e.g., "Belly," "Mind," "Clean") are maintained.... [more] |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
Nintendo DS |
Square Enix, Inc |
| Rating Summary: This is a horse care simulation game in which players can groom, ride, and care for several horses. Mini-games include brushing, hoof care, racing, and feeding.... [more] |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
PC, Wii |
Square Enix, Inc |
| Rating Summary: This is a horse care simulation game in which players can customize their own horses and take care of them on a farm. Players can choose their horses from a variety of breeds, ride them through the countryside, and engage in various mini-games (e.g., grooming, washing, cleaning horse hooves).... [more] |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
Wii |
Atari |
| Rating Summary: This is a fashion simulation game based on the TV show Project Runway. Players compete in fashion challenges—applying make-up, piecing outfits together, and performing a catwalk mini-game—to determine who is the best designer.... [more] |
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Everyone |
Alcohol and Tobacco Reference |
PSP |
GameShastra Inc. |
| Rating Summary: This is a seek-and-find game in which players search for hidden items on a screen full of jumbled objects. Each level takes place in a city along Route 66, and players can read historical information about each city. Among the dozens of searchable items, some are related to alcohol or tobacco (e.g... [more] |
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Everyone |
Cartoon Violence, Comic Mischief, Mild Suggestive Themes |
PC, PlayStation 3, Wii |
SEGA |
| Rating Summary: This is a racing game in which players use Sonic the Hedgehog and other SEGA characters to race on tracks taken from the SEGA universe. Players drive, drift, and "slipstream" their way through whimsical tracks while avoiding moving obstacles and other drivers. Players can receive "power-ups" durin... [more] |
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Everyone |
Cartoon Violence, Comic Mischief, Mild Suggestive Themes |
Xbox 360 |
SEGA |
| Rating Summary: This is a racing game in which players use Sonic the Hedgehog and other SEGA characters to race on tracks taken from the SEGA universe. Players drive, drift, and "slipstream" their way through whimsical tracks while avoiding moving obstacles and other drivers. Players can receive "power-ups" durin... [more] |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
Nintendo DS |
505 Games |
| Rating Summary: Players can compete against each other on a spelling game show or practice by themselves in this collection of mini-games. Mini-games include identifying misspelled words, arranging pieces of a word in the correct order, and alphabetizing word lists.... [more] |
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Everyone |
Comic Mischief |
PlayStation 3 |
inXile Entertainment |
| Rating Summary: This is a puzzle game in which players stack various blocks and objects to build tall, stable structures. The shapes are personified with facial expressions and sound effects, and they occasionally cry out upon falling from a high distance.... [more] |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
Wii |
Konami Digital Entertainment |
| Rating Summary: This is a sports game in which players can practice their swings in a simulated batting cage. Players can adjust the way they react to various pitch types, work on aiming in a target practice, and rack up points in a home-run contest.... [more] |
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Everyone |
Violent References |
MAC, PC |
Topics Entertainment |
| Rating Summary: This is a seek-and-find puzzle game in which players search for hidden items on a screen full of jumbled objects. Players follow a story about Amelia Earhart and her infamously mysterious disappearance. Two lines of dialogue in the story contain references to murder: "Founded in 1889 by Jules Ster... [more] |
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Everyone |
No Descriptors |
MAC, PC |
Encore Software |
| Rating Summary: In this game, based on the TV show Wheel of Fortune, players solve word puzzles by revealing hidden letters. Players can "buy" a vowel or guess a consonant after spinning a wheel designated with dollar amounts and prizes.... [more] |
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Everyone 10+ |
Mild Cartoon Violence, Suggestive Themes, Tobacco Reference |
PC |
Cosmi Corporation |
| Rating Summary: In this whimsical bowling game, players compete in bowling matches against various monsters and aliens to save Earth from being consumed by an evil space queen. Players start out playing on Earth, then are able to bowl on lanes far, far away (e.g., space stations, eerie graveyards, ancient Egyptia... [more] |
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Everyone 10+ |
Fantasy Violence |
Wii |
Activision-Blizzard |
| Rating Summary: This is an "arena-fighting" role-playing game based on characters and events from the movie How to Train Your Dragon. Players are charged with raising and training their own dragons and participating in different activities: customizing the dragons’ appearance, collecting food for the drago... [more] |
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Everyone 10+ |
Suggestive Themes |
PC |
Viva Media LLC |
| Rating Summary: This is a puzzle game in which players match tiles of the same design to clear a game board. An underlying storyline involves mysterious artifacts and a journey of danger and discovery. One of the many still-panel screens depicts the following juxtaposed images: an angry trio of wide-eyed men; a p... [more] |
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Everyone 10+ |
Cartoon Violence |
MAC, PC |
Encore Software |
| Rating Summary: This is a collection of 10 mini-games featuring different Marvel Comics characters: Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, and Wolverine. Most mini-games depict the small "cartoony" characters fighting an assortment of robots, thugs, and enemy creatures. In some games, players walk across side-sc... [more] |
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Everyone 10+ |
Comic Mischief |
Wii |
Namco Bandai Games America |
| Rating Summary: Bodybuilders dressed in super-tight Speedos chase down a "protein thief" through cities, villages, and space in this whimsical puzzle-action game. Pedestrians, straphangers, school teachers, farmers, police officers, and librarians are fully clothed as they go about their business; the bodybuilder... [more] |
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Everyone 10+ |
Mild Suggestive Themes |
PC |
Digital Clay Studios, LLC |
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Everyone 10+ |
Comic Mischief, Mild Cartoon Violence, Mild Language |
PC |
DreamCatcher Interactive, Inc. |
| Rating Summary: This is an adventure game based on the Playmobil Knights and Pirates line of toys. In the knights section, players assume the role of a lowly squire who embarks on a journey to save a king’s daughter from an evil wizard; in the pirates section, players set off on a treasure-seeking a... [more] |
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Everyone 10+ |
Fantasy Violence |
PC, Xbox 360 |
Square Enix, Inc |
| Rating Summary: This is a real-time strategy game in which players assume the role of a commander of one of three intergalactic factions. From an overhead perspective, players control an armored command unit on a vast battlefield. This main base is essentially a giant piloted robot, and it is the hub from which p... [more] |
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Everyone 10+ |
Alcohol Reference, Cartoon Violence, Mild Language, Mild Suggestive Themes |
PC, Wii |
Telltale Games |
| Rating Summary: This is an adventure game in which players follow the exploits of the pirate Guybrush Threepwood as he attempts to defeat the ghost pirate Le Chuck. Players explore various caves, islands, and pirate ships while interacting with characters and solving puzzles. The game is presented in an irreveren... [more] |
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Everyone 10+ |
Comic Mischief, Mild Suggestive Themes |
MAC, PC |
Electronic Arts |
| Rating Summary: This is a simulation game that allows players to create and customize a character to use in The Sims 3 video game. Players can determine their character’s age, sex, clothing, physical features, and personality traits. While the outfits are not especially provocative, one character (in a cut... [more] |
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Everyone 10+ |
Fantasy Violence |
Nintendo DS |
Activision-Blizzard |
| Rating Summary: This is an action game featuring characters from the Transformers franchise. Players control several robot-like aliens (Autobots) that complete missions to lay claim to the planet of Cybertron, and to destroy other enemy robots (Decepticons). Players use laser guns, which are attached to ro... [more] |
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Everyone 10+ |
Fantasy Violence |
Nintendo DS |
Activision-Blizzard |
| Rating Summary: This is an action game featuring characters from the Transformers franchise. Players control several robot-like aliens (Decepticons) that complete missions to lay claim to the planet of Cybertron, and to destroy other enemy robots (Autobots). Players use laser guns, which are attached to ro... [more] |
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Teen |
Alcohol Reference, Mild Suggestive Themes, Mild Violence, Use of Tobacco |
PC |
Viva Media LLC |
| Rating Summary: This is a business simulation game in which players manage an airline and compete against other airline tycoons. Players can manage personnel, buy and maintain airplanes, take out loans, and select specific routes or flight types (e.g., passenger or cargo). Players can also engage in unconventiona... [more] |
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Teen |
Blood, Drug Reference, Mild Fantasy Violence, Mild Language, Suggestive Themes |
PC, Xbox 360 |
Southpeak Games |
| Rating Summary: This is a sports-strategy game in which players compete in a fantastical version of football on a field with trolls, elves, dwarves, and goblins. Players take turns rolling dice to move around the football field and to score touchdowns. Players can also use unconventional tactics to gain an advant... [more] |
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