An interesting read: https://quanticfoundry.com/2017/01/19/female-gamers-by-genre/

no Fighting games...

When I starting playing MMOs in 2006, Fantasy MMO gamers were 83% male, today they are 64% male, quite a big difference in 13 years.

I want to get into a new MMO (or old one).

Probably sorted under "Action/Adventure" would be my guess, but yes, an overlooked category.

I'm surprised the JRPGs are that low actually, most girls I know who play games play JRPGs and not that many guys I know do

there were a handful of female players in LOTRO pvp back in the day typically played healer support

But this chart is also why anyone who says half of gamers are female are lying. Match 3 and sim games are for the most part just skinner boxes that virtually everyone has played at one point or another.

Also they’re not video games unless it’s 1983 again

Well sim games are I guess

But match 3 is like candy crush right?

The sims is but Candy Crush isn't

Yes, there are legit sim games, but Farmville and Mafia Quest are also considered "sim games"

Yeah that’s true. Facebook shit shouldn’t be counted as video games

they're still games even if they aren't popular among gamers

Or maybe video games is too broad a category

Yeah I don't count mobile, which is what they're basing that off of

playing a mobile game right now...it's my main game these days

"gamer" doesn't imply mobile games

bullshit

games are games no matter if they're on PC, Console or toaster

That’s why I said we need a different category

there already is mobile games, still games but targeted at different demographics

I don't say FPS aren't games because I'm don't like them or play them

Ah, I take it back, this study pointedly omitted "social games" so the farmvilles etc, so the family/farm sims are probably not facebook games in this study.

It's like saying someone who plays chess is a jock

it would be like The Sims and Harvest Moon

I've no idea what you crazy kids are talking about.
A video game is 1 line vs 1 line with a circle going back and forth.
*Stopped counting after the first day*
*Yes i know this wasn't the first first game*

Stardew Valley or whatever it was, was popular as hell for a good while

I do want to try that game out I do like a little Harvest Moon when chilling

The same thing but horizontal was the first game

There was another interesting study comparing Chinese gamers and Western gamers. They found Chinese men and women who game play for the same reasons. While western male and female gamers played for the opposite reasons.

I like Stardew valley, I got addicted to Harvest Moon and the stupid real time feature forced me to quit

I would love a system to play Harvest Moon on again.

used to play the original Harvest Moon in the day

Yeah, the Chinese market is completely different

I thought I was pretty into it, but wow my Mother was really dedicated to that game

she had the whole farm planted with corn she had all the bell plant thingys everything

They found Chinese women have near identical motivations to Chinese men (with small differences). I guess communism worked 😛

I can't picture my mom playing video games of any kind