If you're specifically interested in genres that are popular in Europe but not so much elsewhere, I guess it would be simulators? Football Manager is the really obvious one, but most every type of sim seems to be developed there except maybe the flight sims.
Europe is more than one country, just so you know. The tastes of the UK fall more toward that of the US with maybe a bit more love for sports games like FFIFA or that manager game while the mainlands tastes are vastly different. Northern Europe has a well known and passionate FPS community and Russians love their hardcore military sims and weird ass games like STALKER. Germany does have a thing for farming sims but racing games are also up there.
Hey so in Japan role playing games are popular, and in us shooting games are popular. So what genre is popular in Europe?
Actually that is not correct anymore. There was some recent news that Action games actually beat shooter games in 2012 in terms of sales and populariy^^
There's a lot of PC gamers in Sweden. Starcraft 2, DOTA 2, WoW, CS are popular. FPS and RTS games in general. I think this applies to most of Scandinavia.
Europe is more than one country, just so you know. The tastes of the UK fall more toward that of the US with maybe a bit more love for sports games like FFIFA or that manager game while the mainlands tastes are vastly different. Northern Europe has a well known and passionate FPS community and Russians love their hardcore military sims and weird ass games like STALKER. Germany does have a thing for farming sims but racing games are also up there.
This is accurate on many levels. It's outright silly to look at "Europe" as one unanimous place. It's like saying "Asia likes weird RPGs", when it's more accurate to pinpoint it to "Japan likes weird RPGs"
I assume all Europeans play are the Farming Simulator and Football Manager games (who else is buying enough of those games in order to make sequels every year?)
Europe is more than one country, just so you know. The tastes of the UK fall more toward that of the US with maybe a bit more love for sports games like FFIFA or that manager game while the mainlands tastes are vastly different. Northern Europe has a well known and passionate FPS community and Russians love their hardcore military sims and weird ass games like STALKER. Germany does have a thing for farming sims but racing games are also up there.
This is accurate on many levels. It's outright silly to look at "Europe" as one unanimous place.
It's like saying "Asia likes weird RPGs", when it's more accurate to pinpoint it to "Japan likes weird RPGs"
Hey so in Japan role playing games are popular, and in us shooting games are popular. So what genre is popular in Europe?
Actually that is not correct anymore. There was some recent news that Action games actually beat shooter games in 2012 in terms of sales and populariy^^
To note an issue with that graph - "action game" is a term that can cover anything from Vanquish to Ocarina of Time. Naturally, a vastly more inclusive genre will have a higher percentage sold than one that requires certain concrete things (a first person perspective from which things are shot).
How many of those are there? The only ones I know of are from the late 90's or early 00's, like Lula Wet Empire and that The Sims ripoff about managing the Playboy house.
How many of those are there? The only ones I know of are from the late 90's or early 00's, like Lula Wet Empire and that The Sims ripoff about managing the Playboy house.
That wasn't a serious answer. I didn't even know that was a genre.
I know simulation games are much more popular here than on the other continents.
Other than that, a majority of strategy game have quite a lot of player from Europe and also the best/most-active player-base is generally found in Europe, the same goes for mmo's. I'm not sure if the % of people playing those is actually higher than America but the % of "dedicated" player is higher.
European guild in wow held around 80-90% of the world firsts and most for most strategy games ranging from AoE to Warcraft and Starcraft the best and most active players next to Koreans were Europeans.
Nowadays LoL and Dota are pretty popular as well and I believe he best teams are ether European or Chinese tho I never followed that "scene" so don't take my word for it.
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