Underrated and overrated video game genres?

[Roran]

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[mmiwo]

Overrated: Battle royale

Underrated: Fighting games

[Phirestar]

Overrated: Shooter
Underrated: Roguelike (traditional / old-school ones)


I think it's easy to say that first- / third-person shooters are (and have been) the big thing for a long time. It doesn't even need to be explained; if you know gaming, that should sound obvious.

As for underrated, I would say that Rogue, and games that replicate its particular style, are the sort that have pretty much no appeal outside of the people that already play them. From my (minimal) experience, I have found that they feel very archaic and confusing. The only one I have been able to pick up and enjoy is Tangledeep, which was designed with the specific intend of being accessible to more players.

[Wisman]

Overrated: JRPG

Underrated: Metroidvania

[Jej]

Overrated: Indie and JRPG's.

Underrated: Arcade Racers.

[AdahnGorion]

Depends on the person, the FPS/3rd person action player will say RPG's and Simulations most likely, the RPG lovers the opposite, etc etc..

Tbh I don't think any genre is over or underrated, they particular games however can be.

[Roran]

Originally posted by Annabel Lee:

Overrated: BR

Underrated: Well-done HOGs

What genres are "BR" and "HOGs"?

[Roran]

Originally posted by Stern Warrior:

Originally posted by Roran:

What genres are "BR" and "HOGs"?

BR - Battle Royale, HOG - Hidden Object Game, subgenre of puzzle genre.

I see, I haven't seen them used as acronyms, normally just see them in full phrase form.

[Marius]

Overrated:

Battle Royale
FPS shooters; like CSGO
Moba
F2P / P2W games

Underrated:

Crpg's.
Sim racing. (Not Project cars, lol.)

[feytharn]

Overrated: All genres I don't like that are getting games at a regular basis.
Underrated: All genres that I like that are not getting games on a regular basis.

Just in case someone needs a blueprint for the answer.

Seriously, I don't think there are really 'overrated' genres. I can't deny that there are days where I am dissappointed that some theme I like is getting another multiplayer game or a tower defence or visual novel game, but I don't believe that makes those genres overrated. There might be a limited timeframe between an oversaturated market and the industry realizing the market is oversaturated, but the times and genres tend to change as time goes by.

The same thing goes for underrated genres. A few years back, I would have said turn based strategy, party based western rpgs or even visual novel style adventures, but that changed. I guess other genres I might (or might not) miss will come back in time, for a time, too.

For a while now miss a new Mech-Warrior style simulator (single player) or a new take on the Tactival Action + RTS style like Battle Zone.

[sage2001]

Overrated: Walking Simulators.

Underrated: Racing games.

[MonoAlice]

Overrated: Literally every online games
Underrated: Offline Singleplayer games with immersive playability

[Starbug]

Overrated - battle royale games
Underrated - bullet hell shoot em ups

[=CrimsoN=]

Overrated - Open-world survival crafting games and battle royale games. The Minecraft, PUBG and Fortnite ship sailed. Stop trying to emulate them!!

Underrated - Flight sims. Although they've been making a comeback, but nothing to the scale of FreeSpace 2.

[AustrAlien2010]

Depends entirely on where you look for ratings.

[Wraithsiege]

Overrated: Battle Royales
Underrated: Battle Racers