Video game genre communities on Lemmy

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Elevator7009@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

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.

!adventuregames@lemm.ee (also has puzzle and interactive fiction)
!arcaderacing@lemm.ee
!automationgames@lemmy.zip (replaces dead feddit.de community)
!citybuilders@sh.itjust.works
!cozygames@lemmy.world (replaces dead feddit.de community)
!crpg@lemmy.world
!dailygames@lemmy.zip (for quick once-a-day web games like Wordle)
!fgc@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !fgc@lemmy.world
!incremental_games@incremental.social (having federation troubles, but as someone with an incremental.social account I can guarantee we are active)
!jrpg@lemmy.zip and !jrpg@lemmy.world
!lifesimulation@lemmy.world
!metroidvanias@infosec.pub
!otomegames@ani.socialo
!rhythmgames@lemm.ee
!roguelikes@lemmy.world
!shmups@lemmus.org
!simrallyracing@lemmy.world and !simracing@lemmy.zip
!soulslike@lemmy.zip
!strategy@lemmy.world, !strategygames@sopuli.xyz, !turnbasedstrategy@lemmy.world, !turn_based_tactics@lemmy.zip
!tycoon@lemmy.world
!visualnovels@ani.social

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)?

!horrorgaming@lemmy.world
!platformer_games@sh.itjust.works
!puzzlegames@lemm.ee (yes, !adventuregames has some, whether puzzles actually belong with adventure games is another conversation. I don’t think so but I’m not an expert on either genre)
!realtimestrategy@lemmy.world and !rts@reddthat.com
!survivalgames@lemm.ee

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
simulation in general
sports
stealth

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ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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- Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.
  
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  - ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Oh, things are trending in the right direction, but we’re still a long ways away from needing smaller sub communities.
    
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- Elevator7009@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.
  
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Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
TIL, the threadiverse has a lot of .zip communities.

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

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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨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…

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- MelonYellow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yeah they’re all tabletop. If there was one for general RPG games, I would’ve been joined
  
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Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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.

lemm.ee/c/the_talos_principle?dataType=Post&page=…

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

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

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.

retrolemmy.com/c/TipOfMyJoystick?dataType=Post&pa…

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”.

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- Elevator7009@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  !sffgaming@sffa.community
  
  !the_talos_principle@lemm.ee
  
  !residentevil@lemmy.world
  
  !gamemusic@lemm.ee
  
  !tipofmyjoystick@retrolemmy.com
  
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  - tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Another adjacent community that is seeing no real activity: !arcadesticks@lemmy.world
    
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- tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  !gamemusic@lemm.ee
  
  Community for sharing game music.
  
  On that note, !gameart@sopuli.xyz for video game artwork.
  
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  - Elevator7009@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    !baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world has some activity thanks to @PugJesus@lemmy.world
    
    !stardewvalley@lemm.ee has activity thanks to @sag@ani.social
    
    !factorio@lemmy.world has some posts
    
    !infinitynikki@discuss.tchncs.de has three people including myself There are probably more for some really big games, but these are the ones I know of.
    
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  - Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I agree. In the days immediately following the APIcalypse, people attempted to move all their favourite niche communities to Lemmy, but the site’s active userbase isn’t there yet for that kind of content - much to my displeasure: I was only active in two/three niche communities back when I was a Reddit user, but they are pretty much nonexistent here, so I’m forced to include more generic communities in my Lemmy feed to keep it from drying up.
    
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  - tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    EDIT: Oh, and @PugJesus@lemmy.world has kept a flow of material to !fallout@lemmy.world.
    
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- tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  sffa.community/c/sffgaming?dataType=Post&page=0
  
  I can’t DNS-resolve sffa.community, either on IPv4 or IPv6. Google’s DNS root can’t see it either:
  
  $ host -t a sffa.community 8.8.8.8 Using domain server: Name: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53 Aliases: Host sffa.community not found: 2(SERVFAIL) $ host -t aaaa sffa.community 8.8.8.8 Using domain server: Name: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53 Aliases: Host sffa.community not found: 2(SERVFAIL) $
  
  It clearly existed at one point, because lemmy.world has local copies of some stuff from a year back:
  
  lemmy.world/c/sffgaming@sffa.community?dataType=P…
  
  But I think that the instance is gone now.
  
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  - Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Oh, that’s sad. No point in staying subscribed, then.
    
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