For quite a while now, every time my wife and I watch some gaming showcase, we notice just how many games mash together genres and/or styles with very little sense of cohesion or care. Like children mashing together different colors of Play-Doh.
Timothy Cain talked about that topic when reacting to the analysis of the steam catalog made by youtuber "Newbie Indie Game Dev".
Long story short, there's some combo of tag that are so under represented that managing a masterpiece with those would give you an instant success button as a dev.
Hold on this was a shitpost but it might be genius actually. Now I want to dodge duck dip dive & dodge while shooting puzzle pieces into the right spots & keeping track of which puzzle piece my gun is going to shoot out next. That sounds sick actually
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Long story short, there's some combo of tag that are so under represented that managing a masterpiece with those would give you an instant success button as a dev.
Death By Degrees(beat'em up, spy,rpg,survival horror)