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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Real-time Strategy. Specifically single-player campaign oriented RTS.
Genre peaked at, like, Red Alert 3 or Starcraft II, either-or. And the only notable title in the past (N) years has been like… Age of Empires 4. Which is good but also… It’s AoE. It’ll always be more of a multiplayer oriented game yanno? Give me my cheesy campaign stories with cool hero units and/or cheesy FMV uwu
Supernatural hi-fi semi-action adventure shooters like Control, Alan Wake or Death Stranding.
I do wonder what an indie equivalent to these games would look like. I worry that I’d feel like they were just imitating Remedy.
What’s wrong with imitation?
Medieval economy/politics/life sims like The Guild (aka Europa 1400).
It’s sad the closest recent other entry is like CK3 a totally different genre really
I miss the patrician series
Patricia more plays Like a refocussed ANNO entry. Its one of my All Time favorites and i wish for another entry…
I dont think its Line the guild though :)
You marry people based on how ugly they are and the size of their dowry. That’s solid the guild gameplay
