This was something I started wondering about when I was reading a thread about Star Citizen, and about how space combat flight games were much less-common than they had been at one point, how fans of the genre were hungry for new entrants.
Looking at this list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_flight_simulation_games#Space_combat_games
…there really were far more games in the genre being released in the late 1990s and early 2000s than there have been recently.
A similar sort of phenomenon occurred for World War II first-person shooters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_video_games
Back around the same time period, there was a glut of games in the genre, and they really have fallen off quite a bit.
Whether it’s a genre like these two, that hasn’t seen many new entrants recently, or a genre that just never grew as much as you’d like, what genre would you like to see more of?
I haven’t been playing any point & click entrants since…God. There were some hidden object games that I got when I got Steam. I guess maybe outside that subgenre, Samorost and Machinarium, maybe a bit over a decade back.
But I dunno if the situation is honestly all that grim.
Searching for “Point & Click” on Steam and sorting by user review.
I get over 4,000 entries, and the top-rated entries are dominated by releases in the top few years.
You might be thinking specifically of adventure games, but even if I add the adventure tag, it’s still over 3,000 entries.