 What is a game mechanic? Now, we could spend a long time talking about this, but it should be an easy question to answer because I suspect most of you use the phrase game mechanic a lot in your daily lives. You've probably said those words at least dozens of times just today. So it should be very easy to answer just like what is a sandwich? I mean, if I asked for a sandwich and you hand me a hot dog, you may not be wrong, but you're weird.