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
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?
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.