Gaia Online currently offers ten Flash games: Fishing, Towns, Word Bump, Jigsaw, Slots, Cinemas, Cards, Rally, and Pinball. These games comprise of 10% to 15% of total site activity. The newest game is Pinball.
In most games, users can win different items or gold. For example, in Gaia Fishing, users fish on the banks of various lakes and often catch anything from different species of fish to garbage. These can be exchanged for fish-shaped hats and/or accessories like gills. Clothing may be made out of recycled garbage. These items can also be sold on the marketplace or back to the fishing store. The gold received is based on the rarity of the fish or item.
The market for game items often experience fall and rises of varying degrees due to certain events. Some members have blamed bots and botting, others blame Gaia's slow response to provide fixes for issues. Game items can also change in value when new features are added or current ones are disabled.
Towns
Gaia Towns (often simply called Towns) is a virtual world where users' avatars may move and interact with each other, collecting gold and small items along the way. Users' homes can be found throughout Towns and one user can visit another's home. Homes can be designed by items obtained from the Furniture shop or the Marketplace. People's houses, trees, bugs, litter, and flowers mostly fill the towns. Users may use a virtual chat system while in the towns. The towns often host events such as snowball fights.
Rally
On June 18, 2007, Gaia Online and Scion announced a partnership that allowed users to create virtual Scions, with customizable wheels, decals, fog lights, tail lights, and spoilers, and race and display them to other users in a Adobe Flash game called Gaia Rally.
Other cars that came with the game are the made up Possum, and Musculero. They are also customizable but have much fewer accessories than the Scion, most likely due to a marketing contract with Scion. The Scion tC, Scion xD, and UFO were later released, bringing the total to six possible cars to choose from.
In this game users are able to race their cars in a simple track. Clicking the left mouse button beckons the car to move, gradually increasing the speed. Numerous obstacles appear in the road for one to overcome, such as cows, UFOs, ramps, and zombies.
Before the rally, users can chat amongst themselves in a system similar to Gaia Towns. Users park their car in an available space, and may challenge other users to begin a rally.
Cinemas
Gaia Cinemas was released in April 2007, and allows users to sit in a virtual theater, and watch anime, education shorts, cartoons, etc. with other Gaians. Users have the ability to throw tomatoes, fireballs, popcorn, as well as other things during a cinema session. Programs shown in Gaia Cinemas are anime or cartoons shown with permission from Gaia Online's sponsors, films in the public domain, or films made by Gaia or by Gaians. Gaia has old classic films as well as new anime in their theaters like Suzuka and Moon Phase. Recently, Gaia has created its own 3-D animated films, under the title of MMVII, that correlate with the Gaia storyline. Quest movies also take place in cinemas, when a user finishes watching a trailer for a movie they may receive a quest item. Gaia VJ is where Gaians can make a virtual living room cinema with playlists composed of videos from video-hosting sites such as YouTube. In a recent announcement, Gaia announced a partnership with Sony and Time Warner, allowing Gaia to screen films from their libraries, either for free, a one time gold fee, or a Gaia Cash rental fee. New films are released in Gaia Cinemas every Monday.
Gaia Battle
Main article: Gaia Battle
Gaia Online has announced it is developing an MMORPG where users will be able to battle monsters and participate in RPG style quests. The name of Gaia's battle system has not been chosen and there was a contest for it. There was some controversy stating that "zOMG" or "Gaia's Casual MMO" were the chosen names, however, it was stated by a Developer, Gaia username Qixter, that these were just placeholders (zOMG and similar names are not the names for the MMO as they have not been chosen yet). It is then assumed that zOMG is just an exclamation of the new updates that has been recently released.
Gaia Online Battle webpage. The game will utilize special rings to activate abilities, such as throwing fireballs or conjuring up a defense. While a forum for the battle system has been established, the official release date has not been announced. A announcement has been made that the their new MMORPG will be available to play sometime during 2008. Recently, David Georgeson, a.k.a. Qixter, Senior Director for Gaia's MMOG, has announced in his profile that the deadline for the release is the summer of 2008. However, he also points out that the last day of summer is September 22nd, so it might not be released until then.
On May 14th, Gaia superiors announced the Beta Testing for the battle system. Applications to test it are closed as of June 2nd.
Arena
There are three arenas on Gaia Online. Housing, Art, and Avatar.
Members can vote in the arenas and comment on art, avatars or houses.
Entering the Avatar Arena costs 1,000 Gaia gold and rewards up to 50,000 gold for winners. Entering the Art Arena is free, but no prizes are awarded. The Housing Arena costs 1,000 Gaia gold, but the Gaia staff is currently in the process of updating; in the mean time, there is no entry fee and no prizes are awarded.
For the Avatar Arena, prizes are as follows:
50,000 Gold-1st Place 30,000 Gold-2nd Place 20,000 Gold-3rd Place 10,000 Gold for 4th to 10th place