Gamedle

Gamedle is a free daily puzzle that asks one question in several ways: can you name the video game from a single clue? Each day it serves five separate challenges, guessing from blurred cover art, in-game artwork, a cropped character, descriptive keywords, or a grid of database details. Built on the IGDB games catalog, it rewards both casual players and longtime gamers with a fresh set of puzzles every day.

What is Gamedle?

Gamedle is a free daily browser puzzle built around one idea: every day it picks video games from a large catalog and asks you to name them using only partial clues. It is not a single puzzle but a small suite. Each day rotates through five separate challenges, Classic, Artwork, Characters, Keywords, and Guess, and each one hands you a different type of hint. Classic shows cover art that begins blurred or pixelated, Artwork uses in-game promotional images, Characters crops in on a single figure, Keywords lists descriptive tags, and Guess gives you a set of database fields to compare against.

What separates Gamedle from the typical Wordle clone is that it is built on top of a real games database rather than a hand-written word list. The titles, cover images, character art, genre tags, and release years are drawn from IGDB, the Internet Game Database, which is why the answer pool spans decades of releases across many platforms instead of a curated short list. That data-driven foundation is most visible in the Guess mode, which works less like Wordle and more like a deduction grid. When you submit a title there, the game compares your pick to the hidden answer across categories such as platforms, genres, themes, perspective, game modes, engines, developers, and publishers, then colors each category to tell you how close you came.

The feedback in Guess mode is genuinely informative rather than just right-or-wrong. A red marker on a category means none of its values match the target, yellow means at least one value overlaps but not all, and green means that whole category matches. The release year is handled separately with a directional arrow: an up arrow tells you the real answer came out later than your guess and a down arrow tells you it came out earlier. Because each guess narrows several dimensions at once, you can reason your way toward the answer by elimination, which gives the hard mode a board-game-puzzle feel that the image modes do not have. The number of attempts depends on the mode: the image and keyword modes typically allow up to six guesses, while the data-heavy Guess mode gives you ten.

Gamedle first appeared in 2022 and is maintained by a single independent developer, who has cited Wordle and Framed as inspirations and can be reached publicly through the @GamedleOK handle. Beyond the daily set, the site keeps an archive so you can replay earlier days and missed challenges, offers Unlimited variants for non-stop play, runs a rotating Weekly themed challenge, and tracks achievements. The interface is available in several languages including English, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish, German, and Swedish, and there are companion mobile apps. The overall vibe is relaxed and replayable: casual players can stick to the cover-art mode, while collectors and longtime gamers tend to enjoy the harder specification mode where obscure platforms and engines become useful clues.

How to play Gamedle

1. Open Gamedle and choose one of the daily modes: Classic cover art, Artwork, Characters, Keywords, or the data-driven Guess mode.
2. Read the clue carefully. In the image modes it starts blurred, cropped, or pixelated, and in Guess mode you instead compare against database categories.
3. Start typing a game title and pick the exact match from the autocomplete list so your guess is recognized.
4. Submit the guess and read the response: image modes reveal more of the picture, while Guess mode colors each category red, yellow, or green and shows a release-year arrow.
5. Use what each guess tells you to refine the next one, staying within the attempt limit for that mode (about six for image and keyword modes, ten for Guess).
6. After you finish, move on to the other daily modes, or open the archive and Unlimited variants to keep playing.

Tips and strategy

• In Guess mode, open with a well-known game from a genre you suspect so the category colors immediately confirm or rule out platforms, themes, and perspective in one move.
• Treat the release-year arrow as a binary-search tool: each up or down arrow cuts the possible decades roughly in half, so let it steer your next pick before you worry about genre.
• In Classic cover-art mode, read the logo typography and color palette early, since brand fonts and title lettering are often legible well before the artwork sharpens.
• When the visual modes stall, switch to the same day's Keywords mode, because the plain descriptive tags can confirm a hunch the blurred image only hinted at.
• In Characters mode, look past the face to art-style and color cues, since a distinctive rendering style often points to a studio or franchise faster than the character's name.
• Use the Unlimited and archive modes as practice: replaying older cover-art and Guess puzzles trains you to recognize which database categories tend to be most decisive.

Good to know

Resets

Daily, at about 3 AM GMT (new puzzles in every mode)

Cost

Free to play

Modes

Classic, Artwork, Characters, Keywords, and Guess (plus Weekly and Unlimited)

Guesses

About 6 in the image and keyword modes; 10 in Guess mode

Data source

IGDB (Internet Game Database)

Languages

English, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish, German, Swedish

Archive

Yes, past daily and weekly puzzles are replayable

Launched

2022, by an independent developer (@GamedleOK)

Gamedle FAQ

Is Gamedle free?

Yes. Gamedle is free to play in a web browser, and there are also free companion apps for iOS and Android.

How many guesses do you get in Gamedle?

It depends on the mode. The cover-art, artwork, character, and keyword modes generally give you up to six attempts, while the data-driven Guess mode gives you ten because it requires more deduction.

When does Gamedle reset?

The daily puzzles refresh once every day, around 3 AM GMT, which is roughly 10 PM US Eastern the previous evening. A fresh set of puzzles appears across all of the daily modes at reset.

Is there a Gamedle archive?

Yes. Gamedle keeps an archive of earlier daily puzzles and weekly themes, so you can go back and play days you missed instead of only the current one. It also offers Unlimited modes for non-stop play.

Is Gamedle related to Wordle?

Not officially. Gamedle is an independent game inspired by Wordle and similar daily puzzles, but it guesses video games instead of words and pulls its content from the IGDB games database.

What is the hardest Gamedle mode?

The Guess mode is the toughest. Instead of a single image, it asks you to identify a game by comparing platforms, genres, themes, developers, publishers, and release year, using red, yellow, and green feedback plus a year arrow.