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What game genre would you like to see more entrants in? (lemmy.today)
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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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[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://www.thegamer.com/games-like-castlevania/

Looking at this list, maybe -- depending on the era you like -- Bloodstained: Curse Of The Moon, or Hollow Knight for Metroidvanias with similar-to-Castlevania themes?

I have only briefly played Salt & Sanctuary, but it looks thematically kind of like Castlevania, and it's a popular Metroidvania.

EDIT: It looks like the Bloodstained series is trying to fill in the classic Castlevania gap. I kind of preferred the later Castlevania games -- PS2 or GBA -- but this might be what you want. The Steam reviews have people grouching about how Konami isn't doing this any more:

who needs konami anyway?

or

IGA does what Konamidon´t.-

https://store.steampowered.com/app/838310/Bloodstained_Curse_of_the_Moon/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1257360/Bloodstained_Curse_of_the_Moon_2/