Pick Your 9 Favorite Video Games

Search games by title and platform

The search box above queries RAWG, one of the largest open video game databases in the world, live. Type a title — Zelda, Elden Ring, Stardew Valley — and real catalog entries come back with key art, release year and platform, each identified by its RAWG id. That id matters: a remake, a director's cut and the original release of the same game are separate entries, so your grid says exactly which version you lived through — and two different games that happen to share a word never blend into one pick.

Results are labelled with platform and year on purpose. The same adventure played on a hand-me-down console in 2004 and replayed on a handheld last winter is a different memory, and the label is where that story lives. Duplicate protection works on the catalog id, so adding the same entry twice is blocked while related releases stay available as their own picks.

Browse game genres for inspiration

This is a personal nine, not a ranking — a poster of the nine games you would save from a fire, not a list of the nine games everyone is supposed to praise. The strongest grids follow a quiet logic. Some players build by era: the cartridge childhood, the LAN-party years, the current generation. Some build by mood — one cozy farm, one nightmare, one game that ate an entire summer. A genre spine works too: nine RPGs that taught you to read menus before you could read novels, or nine indie jewels against one blockbusting centerpiece in the middle square.

The center square is the loudest claim on the poster — the game you would defend in any argument. Around it, contrast beats consistency: a horror title next to a farming sim says more about range than three shooters in a row. If slot nine stalls, that pause is the whole hobby in miniature; your draft waits in the browser until the last game chooses you back.

Export a 3×3 gaming poster

1. 1. Choose your nine. Search by title, add picks in any order, and drag them into position on desktop or nudge with the arrow buttons on mobile. Six themes — paper, dark, cream, vinyl, neon and red — recolor the whole composition.
2. 2. Letterboxed key art, never cropped. Game art is wide, so every cell letterboxes the full image instead of chopping its edges — logos, silhouettes and skylines stay whole. Add a title, a subtitle and your handle, and switch on names-under-the-grid for readers who do not know the art on sight.
3. 3. Export and share. Download a 1080×1080 square, a 1800×2100 poster or a 1080×1920 story — rendered in your browser, free, no watermark, no account. The share link encodes your exact nine games so friends can open your grid, swap one pick for theirs, and export their own version in under a minute.

Drafts save automatically in this browser per topic, so your gaming grid survives refreshes, closed tabs and week-long debates about slot nine.

Game examples you can remix

These example grids are real, live posters built from actual catalog entries — not mockups. Tap Use this grid on any of them and the editor opens with all nine games loaded, ready to rearrange, retitle and export as your own.

Data sources & credits

Game titles, ids, release years and key art are provided by RAWG, a community-maintained video game database, through its public API. Key art and screenshots belong to their publishers and studios; this tool shows them so you can assemble a personal gaming poster, and all rights remain with their owners. When your shelf needs a rest, the Pokémon species grid and every other nine-grid template — albums, cards, anime, manga, books — share this same editor and free exports.

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