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What game genre would you like to see more entrants in? (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by tal@lemmy.today to c/gaming

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This was something I started wondering about when I was reading a thread about Star Citizen, and about how space combat flight games were much less-common than they had been at one point, how fans of the genre were hungry for new entrants.

Looking at this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_flight_simulation_games#Space_combat_games

...there really were far more games in the genre being released in the late 1990s and early 2000s than there have been recently.

A similar sort of phenomenon occurred for World War II first-person shooters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_video_games

Back around the same time period, there was a glut of games in the genre, and they really have fallen off quite a bit.

Whether it's a genre like these two, that hasn't seen many new entrants recently, or a genre that just never grew as much as you'd like, what genre would you like to see more of?

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[–] mrh@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Metroidvanias of knowledge a la Outer Wilds

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkv05ZO7d8I

Tunic is another example that he goes over in the video. There might be some others mentioned but it's been a while since I watched this.

[–] Mummelpuffin 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hmm... While it's nothing like Outer Wilds and infamous for probably being the most obtuse video game ever created, I wonder if you'd like La Mulana? Metroidvania about being an archeologist where you sort of need to actually peice together the culture and history of the civilization you're studying to move forward sometimes. It's style of storytelling is closer to FromSoft (hence the obtuseness) but still.