games

Survival crafting. That's not gameplay, that's busywork.

Turn-based RPGs

I prefer turn-cringe RPGs

Open world, suvival, crafting

Games with these qualities that are actually good are marketed as RPGs or adventure games

My favorite games are FTL, Papers Please, We Love Katamari, Castlevania NES, Wild Guns and Fallout New Vegas and FZero X. I don't even know what I like.

"gacha" games. We used to call that shit loot boxes just a few years ago

MMO

Don't get me wrong, there are a few MMOs I like, but the vast majority are awful.

Anything that compares itself to stardew valley, mid game that spawned a bazillion worse knock offs where you play in a souless happy charming Cozy^(TM)^ village where everybody knows everybody and there's never any interpersonal disputes

Also horror games and open world, sandbox, survival crafting games

MMO - I like multiplayer games just fine, but whenever they call it “massively” multiplayer, I know it’s going to be a grindy time-sink with anemic gameplay and the requirement to join some sort of group of other players in order to progress. It’s one of the few things I have filtered on Steam because it’s a guaranteed hard pass every time.

Turn-based - This one is hard for me to admit because I’ve played lots of great turn-based games and will inevitably play more of them, but for some reason when turn-based is a key feature, my brain interprets it as being a low-budget and/or low-effort game, or that the gameplay won’t match how the game is presented. It’s not that I dislike the concept of turn-based play, but when I see “turn-based” in a description I just glaze over.

Early Access - I don’t dislike early access, but the fact that it has no specific definition bothers me a lot. There’s no way for me to tell whether the game is a complete enough experience to be worth starting, so I usually end up passing until the game gets a full release (which isn’t a bad thing, but it does mean that early access is an automatic red flag.)

There are certain genres that I’m not that interested in, like puzzle games, visual novels, hardcore simulation games, etc., but the above are things that make me think twice about a game even if it looks interesting otherwise.

probably roguelikes with meta progression since i know the first 10 hours is gonna suck until i unlock some good abilities/items to make it tolerable

Damn, I like some examples of everything listed here except shady money extraction schemes.

Pay to play is my biggest dealbreaker. I'm either paying once, or paying for dlc. But I'm not paying to continue to play a game that isnt FF14

RTS games, namely because I can't micromanage fast compared to some esports gamer hyped up on gamefuel.

soulslike

fuck off, boring ass dodgeroll grimdark cringe

Any sort of deck-building because it feels like homework

This is why I skipped every game of Gwent

MOBA. honestly i don't know why everyone's playing these. even if all the matches were not radioactive cesspools of toxicity i still don't find its gameplay loop enjoyable or fun.

“Free to Play with in game purchases”

Or the suddenly becoming popular

“Pay for a full game but still has in game purchases”

"Procedural generation"

Gaze upon my vast array of extremely similar structures/landscapes, this totally won't turn exploring the world into a boring chore.

My 3 C's for the past 6 or 7 years: crafting / card-based / competitive

I can be won over with near perfect execution though (eg Subnautica is the dreaded survival/crafting but I love it).

Card based

Soulslike (if it's 2d tho, that somehow makes it better for me though?)

Crafting

Survival

Metroidvania. I could barely get through one Castlevania, I really don't appreciate tons of backtracking.

Zombies

Crafting

Metroidvania

Retro/Arena (Boomer) Shooter - I am the exact demographic for these but I played enough of them in 1996 make something else i beg you

Horror. What is the appeal of being scared you all are weird

5v5. All the most toxic games are 5v5, whether its CSGO or League etc. I can't stand them. Though the real problem is automated matchmaking and lack of server browsers, most other pvp games have ways of mitigating the toxicity but 5v5's really just encourage it full tilt.

I really wish larger team based esport games were the ones that took off, but alas.

4X

The first X is fun and then it's miserable

first person shooter

"hack and slash"

'RPG' when all that means is 'levelling and loot mechanics'. Those just break verisimilitude for me for no actual benefit. I can't really buy into fantasy of somebody (especially with a somewhat established backstory of excellence) to start out as an incompetent buffoon and then in a span of a week become the greatest at everything ever. Such games also often have really poor mechanics elsewhere, often by making the game combat-heavy and not giving you a particular diversity of options when in combat (for example, BG1 and 2 martials largely just get 'hit enemy' and, maybe, 'use equipment').
This criticism applies to looter-shooters and to souls-likes. The former are at least almost always bad shooters which are made addictive via their RPG mechanics, and the latter usually have a rather one-note gameplay of dodging things by rolling, which not only feels dull but also looks very silly and breaks verisimilitude for me. This criticism does NOT apply to Disco Elysium. I also had fun with New Vegas, which made me realise that I do like narrative parts of games, as Fallout games in general have very subpar gameplay.

'Live service'.

'Multiplayer' - I don't really care for multiplayer. Not a very competitive person. And I can entertain myself in challenging ways by picking up a math textbook and solving problems presented there, or finding problems from math olympiads and solving those. (I know, I have not yet posted the solutions in the other relevant thread - I have been too busy; I have 3 problems' solutions ready and written on paper, the geometry problem I have solved in my mind but have not written the solution yet, and the remaining problem I am yet to produce a detailed solution for.)

'Open world' - usually just means that a lot of the time one has to waste on traversing boring environments.

Story driven, cinematic

I want to play a videogame that makes me feel like I'm getting better at the mechanics not one where the mechanics are there only to progress the story

Roguelikes, pixel graphics, horror, card-based

2D is usually a pass, although there was such a game that I passed on for a long time (Rimworld) that ended up becoming my all time most played game.

Post-apocalyptic and zombies especially have been done to death (pardon the pun) and I just find them boring as hell.

However I adore open world survival craft and as long as a game doesn't look like total shit I'll give it a try (usually a try first just to be safe)

Open World means the game is probably going to be way too long for me to actually play it.