We recently relaunched our Advanced Search feature, brand new version in BETA now. Give it a go and give us some feedback for improvement :)
www.igdb.com/advanced_sea...
You ok there Barry?
Hey! It wasn't denied don't worry. What we did is a partial accept, it's only that some of your submitted data were discarded. In this case it was the summary. This is a normal part of our process, since we're able to pick which data points to accept and reject.
Thanks!
www.igdb.com/games/assaul...
You're welcome :D
⚠️scheduled maintenance announcement ⚠️ We are conducting a Database upgrade for IGDB.com. The update is planned for Monday 2026-02-02 09:00 UTC and we expect the upgrade to take 1 hour. This will disable logins and contribution for that duration. Thank you!
We are working on the queues, Our validation rate is up already since this past month and a half. Getting through to past changes, while tackling new ones was never planned to be an overnight fix unfortunately, it's a progressive scale.
Thank you for the feedback!
Ah, that one was actually funny :D
Definitely apologies about the delay! Resolving the wait time and our current backlog is our upmost priority this year :) Thank you again!
Hi again! This also may be due to the fact of a name collision, rather. Twitch does ingest Remakes of games.
Hello! Please note that how Twitch ingest the data is entirely up to them. Our primary task it to catalogue gaming, including remakes of course. If this is erroneous from a data point of view we can review it. We can see there's a pending update on the game, we'll get that reviewed :) Thank you!
Hey! Not entirely sure what you mean by not easily access logos? All 3 types of logos are accessible under Artwork Types. It's all there in the API api-docs.igdb.com#artwork-type
Hey! Sorry you had such a bad experience. If indeed you believe it still would fit according to content policy, you can send us an email over at appeal-igdb AT justin.tv Please make sure you add all the context and disclaimers you listed here. Thank you!
Fair, but anyone can make a gmail account and claim they own your IP. And so we can't go with that, it's a basic safety layer (not full proof, we're aware). We have made some exception for solo devs tho, if you can prove your gmail is tied to one of your store pages. Then sure that works for us. 👍
Twitch does not ingest mods, which this qualify as from our database standpoint. Don't worry though, we're working with Twitch on bringing the category back (and one for Gamma!). Stay tuned, it's only a temp setback ^^
Want a recap of all game announcements and trailers from last nights #gameawards ? We got you covered :)
www.igdb.com/events/the-g...
No worries! Feel free to drop a link here, we can have a quick look. Thank you!
Please understand we are not ghosting anyone. But the queues is in the tens of thousands. It naturally takes time, and effort. And our team isn't robots. Layoffs are real and never fun.
However thank you for the feedback. We absolutely are working on improving the review times :)
Anyone is free to add them. There's over 300k games in the db, it's a slow process :)
That's on Backloggd not on us. Alternative and Localised titles are available.
We mean we need a standard. Some games will go all caps, some not. We allow all form of casing, emojis or symbols even, but we just label those as stylised. It's simply to avoid a myriad of edge cases :)
Pic showing the /gamesearch command in IGDB. Showing the interactive features of the command in discord
I wrote one of the Bots for @igdb.com it has a command for searching the games database. It is also fully interactive
⚠️ New feature drop! You can now automatically import your Steam library, and your Steam wishlists! Just head over either to your lists on your profile, or straight to your profile setting. hit connect, and boom.. games appear.
What other importers would you like to have?👀
Anyone is able to contribute and add missing games, or feel free to drop by in our Discord server to chat about it :)
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Wait, we have Dark Mode now 👀
Oh, we also now let you pick your preferred region for game covers. Think a JP or EU has better box art releases? Then just set them as your preferred default :)
Drop by Discord for the details!
🙌 We're redone our Karma Hunters completely, making it easier to find missing data to contribute to!
For those who like climbing leaderboards, this is your chance!
pro tip: a lot of low hanging fruits with game logos ;)
www.igdb.com/karma_hunters
We made a Game Engine leaderboard (www.game-oracle.com/leaderboards...) - thanks @igdb.com for the data ❤️ - and ranking by SteamDB score is fascinating. Top 5: Telltale Tool, SCUMM, Visionaire, KiriKiri, KEX (caveat: not all games disclose their engine, so bare that in mind) #gamedev
