List more in the comments! I’ll add them if they are a community for a video game genre, and have had at least one post in the last month. Crossposted to [email protected] here.

I also found some genres with dead communities. Maybe someone would like to revive one, or make a new one (preferably on a smaller instance than lemmy.world)?

On my search for communities to put here I found some genres seem to be wholly missing. Let me know if I missed something!

  • MMOs
  • open world/sandbox
  • RPGs that don’t really fit in CRPG or JRPG
  • shooters (think FPS, hero shooters, literally any shooting game that does not fit in the shmup/shoot-em-up genre)
  • simulation in general
  • sports
  • stealth
  • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    9 days ago

    I think a lot of these are going to be placeholder for a while until more generalized communities like this one see more growth. It’ll be a while before we even hit 100k subscribers here, and you need to have a subset of those people who are looking to talk about an even more specific interest in more depth.

    • Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      9 days ago

      I think the bigger deal is Lemmy/Threadiverse getting 100K MAU and seeing steady growth beyond that. We are currently at around ~50-55K MAU.

      Subs are a deceptive metric, MAUs are far more important.

      • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        9 days ago

        Oh, things are trending in the right direction, but we’re still a long ways away from needing smaller sub communities.

        • Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          8 days ago

          In principle I agree with you, but it’s also a “chicken and egg” type problem. Many people aren’t going to switch to Lemmy if there isn’t a modicum of coverage for more specialized topics.

          I think getting to somewhere beyond 100K MAU will have a transformative effective on activity in some more specialized communities.

        • Elevator7009@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
          2·
          8 days ago

          On one hand I understand this, but on the other hand I’d like to post games I find that fit these subgenres or talk about that subgenre without making myself the biggest spammer in [email protected], and I think (time will tell!) I do have the stubbornness necessary to scream into the void until people come along. Maybe I should crosspost the ones I think are most likely to have mass appeal…

          • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            8 days ago

            I wish you the best of luck. I don’t know what that threshold is where the smaller communities make sense, but for me, we haven’t met it yet.

            • Elevator7009@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
              1·
              8 days ago

              I feel if I spontaneously quit all my niche gaming communities and posted everything I’d post there on a general community instead, I’d annoy everyone with a bunch of Steam links for games they probably do not care about. People in the niche communities are more likely to care about a link to a game in a genre they already like. Also, for most of the small communities I’ve got at least one other poster sometimes, and that’s better than nobody! Despite all the trouble with incremental.social and federation, when I can get on there we do have a few regulars chatting there and that’s nice.

              contains gender politics

              There’s also just fans of a certain genre being used to backlash from the wider gaming community. I did get mostly upvotes when I posted [email protected], which is mostly romance visual novels for women who like men, to [email protected]. I appreciate it. But I am not sure how posting these games to [email protected] would go over, especially when I suspect Lemmy to be male-dominated. Visual novels already suffer from the “it’s all just hentai” stereotype. Now add the “media for women, especially romance media, is stupid and vapid and silly” prejudice. And even for those who just live and let live, I suspect most of the general [email protected] community would be disinterested in otome game posts, which is fair because I’m disinterested in romance and/or sex visual novels aimed at men who want to date women (although they should definitely be allowed to exist and people should be allowed to like them in peace). So both to avoid any backlash, and to avoid annoying the wider community, I don’t want to post those games to this general community. I still want a space for it on Lemmy though, so I made that community. I have one other regular poster and sometimes people drop in and comment.

              You could make the argument that I’m simply posting low-quality content, and I’d just have to raise the bar for [email protected] to accept my posts, and that I just want my niches back, to which I say: fair. But unfortunately I’m no video game expert or connoisseur. I play and enjoy. The lovely guide and wiki makers usually get there before I can. I’m not too good at coming up with fun discussion questions that are better than what I’d consider low-tier engagement bait back on Reddit like “name one good thing about [noncontroversial character]”. So link posts it is, better some on-topic content than none at all. And even if I did write a wonderful in-depth review or guide, if it’s not for some big mainstream appeal game but something that only genre enthusiasts really like, not sure how well [email protected] would take to it. So that’s my rationale for having these niche communities. You’re still very free to think I’m wrong ;) Thanks for contributing in earnest to [email protected]!

    • Elevator7009@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      You’re probably right, but most of these do exist already, so I figure not why not continue trying to use them (and to direct attention from this big community there)? Also probably doesn’t help a lot of instances have general games communities. We’re pretty splintered. Now that I think about it I should probably crosspost to some of the bigger ones.

  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    8 days ago

    TIL, the threadiverse has a lot of .zip communities.

    I wonder if they’ll be larger after I unpack them?

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    6·
    8 days ago

    RPGs that don’t really fit in CRPG or JRPG

    I was thinking it is weird that the generically named “RPGs” community (and RPGMemes) seems focused entirely on tabletop stuff, but I just noticed it’s literally on an instance dedicated to tabletop games so that explains that…

    • MelonYellow@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Yeah they’re all tabletop. If there was one for general RPG games, I would’ve been joined. Missed opportunity for sure

  • Aielman15@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    8 days ago

    https://sffa.community/c/sffgaming?dataType=Post&page=0

    Sffagaming is for sci-fi games, but I haven’t seen a post in there in a while.

    https://lemm.ee/c/the_talos_principle?dataType=Post&page=0

    https://lemmy.world/c/residentevil?dataType=Post&page=0

    Communities for Talos Principle and Resident Evil, but again, they aren’t active.

    https://lemm.ee/c/gamemusic?dataType=Post&page=0

    Community for sharing game music. Not very active, but I see posts in my feed every now and then.

    https://retrolemmy.com/c/TipOfMyJoystick?dataType=Post&page=0

    Fairly new community to help people looking for a specific name they forgot the name of.

    Sorry for not sharing the generic link, I’m on mobile and that’s the link my app generates when I click on “share”.