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 !communitypromo@lemmy.ca 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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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.
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.
Oh, things are trending in the right direction, but we’re still a long ways away from needing smaller sub communities.
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.
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”.
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.
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:
https://lemmy.world/c/sffgaming@sffa.community?dataType=Post&sort=New
But I think that the instance is gone now.
EDIT: The last time archive.org’s Wayback Machine was able to successfully index it was September 16, 2024:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240916061246/https://sffa.community/
