Weekend Question: What 'dead' genre deserves a comeback?

[PCG Jody]

I ask the PCG staff a regular Weekend Question and post the answers on the site. If you'd like to throw in an answer here, I'll squeeze the best into the finished article!

This week's question is: What 'dead' genre deserves a comeback?

With Age of Empires 4 and Company of Heroes 3 on the way, it seems reports of the death of the RTS were greatly exaggerated. The retro FPS comeback is ongoing, as is that of skateboarding games. CRPGs and even FMV had their turns, and the point-and-click adventure before that. What unfairly forgotten flavor of videogame should rise from its grave next? Vehicular combat games maybe, or rhythm games with peripherals, or rail shooters? Do you want Riders Republic to usher in a new era of extreme sports games? Is Splitgate bringing the arena shooter off life support? You tell me.

 

[Brian Boru]

Puzzle genre.

There are lots of good small indie puzzle games, but it's been a while since we got something of the caliber of the Portals or The Talos Principle.

Not a genre, but with the resurgence of PC gaming I'd really like games to make use of a second monitor when available.

 

[Lenson]

While many games incorporate elements of the stealth genre, there has not been many real stealth games in recent years. I would like to see more hardcore stealth games like thief make a comeback.

 

[Pifanjr]

Vehicular combat games

Yes, definitely. I want a new vehicular combat game with destructible environment. Specifically, a remake of Rollcage.

I also want a proper god game. Not a different genre where you happen to play as a god, I don't want a management game or a RTS or anything like that.
It doesn't have to be a remake of Black & White, though I would accept that as well. I really liked From Dust as well.

 

[Zloth]

First/Third person 3D RTS games. It's been a very long time since Sacrifice and BattleZone came out. Big Boat & Rebellion gave the BattleZone games a nice facelift, but how about something new?

 

[Sarafan]

Apart from the RTS genre, I'd say flight simulators. We recently had another edition of Microsoft Flight Simulator, but it barely covers military airplanes and doesn't support any military operations. In the late 90s we had a flood of these kind of games. Does anyone remember titles such as F-22 Raptor, F-22 Lightning 2 and 3, Total Air War, Lock On (this one is from early 2000s) and some other? Most of them were developed by Novalogic and you can still get them on Steam, but they have some serious trouble working on modern hardware. It's a niche genre, however I would certainly see it back at least to some extent.

 

[MrShadow]

on rail shooters for me please, my last one being the quite recent panzer dragoon 1 remake on steam, well worth a buy, its absolutely gorgeous, and once you hit level 3-delisiously brutal,but you keep coming back for more.
worth a go, especialy folks who have never played on rails before,best played with an xbox one pad though.

 

[DXCHASE]

The genres that i am interested in are alive and kicking, this was completed by the comeback of classic-FPS games. There is no genre to me thats "dead" they just have little fanfair nowadays.