The article presents a genre and thematic analysis of 47 identified Russian desktop-printed and computer games dedicated to the biography of N. Nekrasov and his work. The discovered literary board games of the Nekrasov theme have been published from 1878 to the present day. Before the revolution, intellectual literary quartets were widely published, in Soviet times serious quizzes were in the lead, in the modern era, entertaining games are more often published. The publisher's choice of player age characteristics is gradually shifting. There are noticeable trends in moving away from inter-age family games to games for preschoolers and younger schoolchildren. A large number of home-made games based on Nekrasov's works, widely presented on the Internet and deliberately not taken into account in this article, speaks not only of the need for such didactic materials in schools, libraries, museums, but also of the lack of mass offers from the domestic board games market.