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Gamers Are Becoming Less Interested in Games With Deep Strategy, Study Finds (www.ign.com)

submitted 6 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Alto@kbin.social 55 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (12 children)

Stares at most PDX games having increasing player counts

How much of this is the lack of people wanting to play strategy games vs the lack of good strategy games

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

Exactly! I absolutely love EU4 and am excited about the likely next installment. Unfortunately, I'm less excited about their other recent launches, because the depth of strategy just isn't quite there.

But then I look around and can't really find a comparable game. There's Total War, but y strategy there is pretty weak and more about battlefield tactics than actual grand strategy. Civ exists, but it's in a pretty different category (and not really my thing; I do like Civ IV though). I own a lot of strategy games, but most are kind of shallow. I love complex games with a lot of moving parts, which yields a lot of variation game to game, and that just isn't all that common outside of PDX games.

[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I cant get past eu4 mid game. I get early wins, can't keep up in much, get swarmed by 30k artillery groups and 100+ fleets.

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just play as Sweden to get the hang of things 🤷‍♂️

[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Tried Sweden, England, France, Spain, ottomans and one Indian one - still that mid game issue

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