What are your top 3 favorite game genres?

[ZedClampet]

Feel free to make up your own genres if you like, or list as many genres as you want. My tops are:

1. Survival/Sandbox
2. Car racing
3. Simulation

I also like:
Automation
Party-based RPGs
4X
City Builders
Management/Sports Management

 

[zebubba]

1. Fantasy MMO (WoW)
2. RPG (Dark Souls)
3. Puzzle Games

 

[Pifanjr]

It's not easy to boil my preferences down to 3 genres, but I think this is pretty accurate:

1. Turn-based Strategy (including turn-based 4X)
2. Action RPG
3. Resource management, especially with automation

With a special mention to rogueli(k/t)es

 

[Why_Me]

1. Online multiplayer first person shooter games
2. Racing games
3. * See up above

 

[Johnway]

1. Action adventures - (deus ex, system shock 2, thief etc)
2. FPS
3. RPGS

Generally games of skill or those that reward commitment, failing that squad based tactics with a good story. You would argue simulators like minecraft, Sim city, cities skyline would be near the top, but it feels more like work rather then enjoyment. RTS games i enjoy the simple ones but the fact that i have to constantly rebuild a base, do the research and all the while being harrassed by the enemy just rubs me the wrong way. Its probably why i prefer squad based stuff as its slower, more relaxing to play and more intimate. Too often i just lose units because it becomes too cumbersome and/or forget about units. honorable mention to World in Conflict, probably the most fun RTS game i've had. Simple controls, more hands on movement of units etc, exciting combat and was pretty cinematic.

 

[DXCHASE]

1. FPSs.
2. ARPGs
3. Looter-Shooters/3rd-person shooters (usually the same thing with some exceptions)

Honorable mentions (genres i dable in)
-Fighting (mainly 2D)
-MMOs. I have to put this since my top games, although fall into the above categories, are also MMOs which get its own category.

 

[SirDJCat]

- Multiplayer FPS’
- Open world TPS’
- Anything with a level editor

 

[mainer]

1. Open World RPGs in either 1st or 3rd person perspective (like Skyrim, FO4, Elex). Bonus points for those that include an in depth crafting system and home/base construction, or settlement construction.

2. Party-based RPGs, usually isometric, but occasionally 3rd or 1st person perspective. The strongest ones have in-depth party/companion interactions and personalities. Bonus points for detailed companion questlines and backstories. Such as the Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Baldur's Gate, and Pillars of Eternity games.

3. Action RPGs (ARPGs). From my playing experience they're mostly isometric, like Diablo, Sacred, and Grim Dawn. But they can also be 1st or 3rd person, though I have less experience with those. Kill, loot, level up, and upgrading equipment are the primary goals.

An addendum to the above: Any of the above genres that have the "souls-like", "rogue-like", "MMO", or "online only" tag are immediately ignored.

 

[Brian Boru]

♣ 4X
♦ Open world FPS
♥ RTS old-style—ie more strategy than tactics

♠ Out of the medals, but made final:
Word
Casual strategy-puzzle—eg Royal Envoy
Digital board games—eg Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride

“Games are a series of interesting decisions"—Sid Meier

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Genre is hard to pin down sometimes, could just put 'RPG' and find an argument to include almost everything in that as the term has become so general it's almost meaningless. Anyway going by the games I've spent most hours in generally.

1. Isometric CRPG
2. Souls Like (Even if I mostly only like Fromsoft ones)
3. Turn based tactics

I hate that I havent got room for Grand strategy, 4X, FPS, 3rd person shooters, and a load of other stuff.

 

[Zloth]

1. RPGs (most types, but not rogue-likes and not diablo-likes)
2. 4X (turn based)
3. Squad based strategy (XCOM-likes)

The AAA action adventure with RPG elements and probably some form of detective mode and light crafting games are fun, too, but haven't figured out a name for themselves yet.

 

[Alm]

1. Multiplayer FPS
2. Open World RPG
3. Sport (including racing)

 

[Zloth]

3. Sport (including racing)

Does that include chess? Go check the screenshot quiz, if so!

 

[Why_Me]

Does that include chess? Go check the screenshot quiz, if so!

We talking Harry Potter style chess?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sm_-vJNCHk

 

[Zloth]

But... but... there's plenty of room around the sides, they could just walk around the chessboard and.... OK OK, hand me the popcorn and I'll shut up.

 

[Slasken]

City Builders
Open world adventure or RPGs
Business or sports management.

 

[Colif]

I have to choose 3?

um

1. Arpg
2. Racing games (though not recently). I used to play them years ago, I can't afford the rigs people use for it on PC.
3... Pinball games a distant 3rd (its been a long time since I played one, it was on playstation 4... I don't own one of those anymore. While recreating old pinball machines is cool, some of the fantasy machines are just all the same... or is that just Zen Pinball.

 

[Zimbaly]

1.Open world RPGS/Zombie Games
2.Sports Games
3.Fighting Games
-side note - I don't consider it a genre, but I also love games with coop

 

[ZedClampet]

I have to choose 3?

um

3... Pinball games a distant 3rd (its been a long time since I played one, it was on playstation 4... I don't own one of those anymore. While recreating old pinball machines is cool, some of the fantasy machines are just all the same... or is that just Zen Pinball.

Pinball FX 3 has some nice machines. I picked up a couple of bundles during the latest sale. I used to have another pinball game that was only replicas. I thought it was Pinball Arcade, but if it is, I think they've lost the Williams content that I purchased ages ago. I need to reinstall it and see if I still have those machines.

 

[Havanese]

of course action game

 

[Zloth]

Oooo, that AI uses Oxford commas! Classy!

 

[lata chaudhary]

1. Action/Adventure
2. Role-playing Games
3. Strategy Games

 

[James Parker]

1. Multiplayer FPS
2. Open World RPG
3. Sport (including racing)

Absolute multiplayer FPS, open-world RPGs, sports, and racing are the most popular game genres.
I have played many games in these genres and enjoyed them a lot.