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
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)
On that note, !gameart@sopuli.xyz for video game artwork.
Communities for Talos Principle and Resident Evil, but again, they aren’t active.
Yeah, there are a bunch of communities for individual video games, but they’re all pretty dead. I think that !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world, where the dev actually shows up, posts, and moderates is probably one of the most alive.
This came up when I originally got on the Threadiverse — I remember suggesting that people post in generic gaming communities, then when the load became too high, move to genre-specific, and then when the load became too high, move to game-specific. Otherwise, the userbase in any one community just isn’t large enough to get much community activity.
!baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world has some activity thanks to @PugJesus@lemmy.world
!stardewvalley@lemm.ee has activity thanks to @sag@ani.social
!factorio@lemmy.world has some posts
!infinitynikki@discuss.tchncs.de has three people including myself
There are probably more for some really big games, but these are the ones I know of.
I agree. In the days immediately following the APIcalypse, people attempted to move all their favourite niche communities to Lemmy, but the site’s active userbase isn’t there yet for that kind of content - much to my displeasure: I was only active in two/three niche communities back when I was a Reddit user, but they are pretty much nonexistent here, so I’m forced to include more generic communities in my Lemmy feed to keep it from drying up.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !games@lemmy.world
Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.
On that note, !gameart@sopuli.xyz for video game artwork.
Yeah, there are a bunch of communities for individual video games, but they’re all pretty dead. I think that !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world, where the dev actually shows up, posts, and moderates is probably one of the most alive.
This came up when I originally got on the Threadiverse — I remember suggesting that people post in generic gaming communities, then when the load became too high, move to genre-specific, and then when the load became too high, move to game-specific. Otherwise, the userbase in any one community just isn’t large enough to get much community activity.
Oh, and @PugJesus@lemmy.world has kept a flow of material to !fallout@lemmy.world, for one other game-specific community that has some activity.
PugJesus and The_Picard_Maneuver are single-handedly keeping half of Lemmy afloat.
I agree. In the days immediately following the APIcalypse, people attempted to move all their favourite niche communities to Lemmy, but the site’s active userbase isn’t there yet for that kind of content - much to my displeasure: I was only active in two/three niche communities back when I was a Reddit user, but they are pretty much nonexistent here, so I’m forced to include more generic communities in my Lemmy feed to keep it from drying up.