RAWG
RAWG is the largest video game database and game discovery service, providing access to more than 350,000 games across 50+ platforms with rich metadata including tags, genres, developers, publishers, creators, release dates, Metacritic ratings, store links, ESRB ratings, average playtime, achievements, screenshots, trailers, and social media data. RAWG offers a free REST API for personal and small commercial use with API key authentication, enabling developers to search and filter games by platform, genre, developer, publisher, tag, release date, and rating. The API also provides endpoints for exploring game series, DLCs, development team members, and visually similar games (enterprise tier). RAWG is used by developers building game discovery apps, recommendation engines, gaming dashboards, and data warehouses.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles RAWG the way a machine reads it — 25 machine-readable artifacts across 9 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — RAWG scores 54.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile RAWG
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for RAWG. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 9
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
RAWG creator-roles API
The creator-roles API from RAWG — 1 operation(s) for creator-roles.
RAWG creators API
The creators API from RAWG — 2 operation(s) for creators.
RAWG developers API
The developers API from RAWG — 2 operation(s) for developers.
RAWG games API
The games API from RAWG — 14 operation(s) for games.
RAWG genres API
The genres API from RAWG — 2 operation(s) for genres.
RAWG platforms API
The platforms API from RAWG — 3 operation(s) for platforms.
RAWG publishers API
The publishers API from RAWG — 2 operation(s) for publishers.
RAWG stores API
The stores API from RAWG — 2 operation(s) for stores.
RAWG tags API
The tags API from RAWG — 2 operation(s) for tags.
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
RAWG Video Games Database API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rawg Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Rawg Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Rawg Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Rawg Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
RAWG API Rules
SPECTRALRAWG API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 1
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
RAWG Game
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 1
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Rawg Game Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 4
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Rawg Game Detail Example
EXAMPLERawg Games List Example
EXAMPLERawg Genres List Example
EXAMPLERawg Platforms List Example
EXAMPLESecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for RAWG — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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