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submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Elevator7009@lemmy.zip to c/communitypromo@lemmy.ca

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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 !games@lemmy.world here.

!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.social
!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 (think FPS, hero shooters, literally any shooting game that does not fit in the shmup/shoot-em-up genre)
simulation in general
sports
stealth

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[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Oh, I've already added these to my list.

[–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 3 points 4 days ago

What a fantastic summary post TY!

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 6 points 5 days ago

for MMOs there's !mmorpg@lemmy.ml but it's not very active

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

Great list!

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Good initiative!

I wish incremental.social would fix their federation issues; it's been unpredictable and janky for what seems like many months.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

FYI @thepaperpilot@incremental.social

There seems to also be a Matrix space on https://incremental.social/about

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I reached out about this a few months ago. Admin mentioned it's on the TODO list, but I haven't seen any progress.

Not be annoying, but if you start a federated forum, if you are bothered enough to pay for the domain/hosting, you might as well make sure federation actually works.

Just my perspective, I could be wrong.

[–] Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

For what it is worth, when I log into my incremental.social account I see the posts you make there.

[–] Ekonna@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thats important to know! I can only see Agent Karyo's posts and no other and no comments. I always thought that the community is dead...

[–] Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

A bot posts weekly and usually me, CardboardEmpress, laleyou, and kopi-pasted will comment; and sometimes we make posts. I just posted a game there in the past 3 days. Weird…

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

New posts works, but sometimes I can't see my own posts (new or otherwise) when accessing incremental.social with my LW account.

Perhaps the admin should reach out to other instances admins to try and figure out how to resolve this.

[–] tal 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

missing...shooters

What do you mean by this? Sometimes people are referring to shmups in using the term, but that's on the list. You mean lightgun games? Rail shooters?

[–] Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

I do know about shmups and probably should have made that exclusion in the post body, I will go do that. But I input "shooter" into the community search and got flat nothing. No FPS or anything, and given how popular those are I'm very surprised there is not any community for it. Not great with any more specific examples because I don't really play shooters myself.