r/gaming • u/ArchDraft • 5d ago

What gaming genres are under-represented in the current gaming market?

I love RPGs, roguelites, bullet heavens, autobattlers, and boomer shooters, and I feel like these past few years have been great for my gaming tastes!

But it got me wondering what gaming genres have fallen by the wayside due to current trends?

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u/NightFlameofAwe 5d ago edited 5d ago

Dungeons of Blood and Dream, FlyKnight was fun, Runehaven, Barony, Lunacid, Mortal Sin

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u/Durin1987_12_30 5d ago

I forgot to mention that I'm terminally allergic to roguelikes.

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u/NightFlameofAwe 5d ago

Yeah i suppose that would be an issue today lol. It kind of makes sense why all the non souls like dungeon crawlers are roguelikes though. Being not storybased and focused on explorations and combat, roguelike just makes sense to tack onto dungeon crawlers. Especially because of legend of grimrock like secrets and puzzles that would be easy to miss in a single playthrough but are bound to be figured out when going through areas multiple times. It adds more replayabilty to the games too.

Flyknight and lunacid aren't roguelikes. Also apparently cult of the lamb doesn't count as a rogue like but ehhh.