ESRB Game Ratings
The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) ratings are designed to provide consumers, especially parents, with concise, impartial guidance about the age-appropriateness and content of computer and video games so that they can make informed purchase decisions about the games they deem suitable for their children and families.
ESRB ratings have two equal parts:
- Rating Symbols suggest age appropriateness for the game, and appear on the front of virtually every game box available for retail sale or rental in the United States and Canada.
- Content Descriptors, which appear on the back next to the rating symbol, indicate elements in a game that may have triggered a particular rating and/or may be of interest or concern.
Rating Summaries
Rating summaries are a supplementary source of information that go beyond ESRB ratings to give parents a detailed yet brief and straightforward description of exactly the kind of content they would want to know about when choosing a game for their child.
Although rating summaries don't appear on game packages, they are available via the rating search on ESRB's website, the rating search widget and ESRB's mobile website and rating search app.
More About ESRB and Game Ratings
Ratings Guide
Review definitions for ESRB rating categories and content descriptors.
Ratings Process
Learn how the ESRB assigns ratings to computer and video games.
Enforcement
Read how the ESRB rating system and industry guidelines are enforced.
Parent Resources
Explore other online resources.
Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to some of the most frequently asked questions.
