RPG or Role-playing game is a very popular genre of game that is gaining popularity at a very high pace. In the recent years, its growth has been stable with any upward trend, but that doesn't mean people are not liking the games. RPG: Character Selection Interest Over Time If we take a look at the popularity chart of RPG vs. other popular genres like Action, Shooter, Strategy to name a few, it is clearly visible that the gaming community as well as the gaming market is having a high search for RPG than the others. Interest by Country: It is very clear from the chart above, people are more interested in RPG than other top genres. The reason for such interest is due to the play-style of the given genre. As seen in the graph over the duration of an year, a huge number of people are hooked into RPG followed by First-person Shooter, Action and Strategy. If we take a look at the world map, we can see that RPG is most popular in Western countries like USA, Cana
Gaming is always fun, whether its on computer, laptop, mobile or console. But while picking a game, we don't really get whether it's of our taste or not. Now, companies do take some steps to help us choose the game of our taste. The various ways companies help us are by attaching a Genre to the game, adding Age Restrictions sign on the template and more. Genres? Well, to put it simply, it refers to 'type' or 'category' of a game, similar to tags. For a regular gamer, the term 'genre' is very common and this post is probably not for them, though its always fun to see posts related to gaming. This is meant for those of you who are new to the 'world of games' and those of you veterans who only played a few 'types of games' and now willing to explore more. What is a Genre? A game genre is a classification of games based on the gameplay and game mechanics. It gives us a small idea about how the game is going to be.