Is there any system for discovering games in a specific niche? I agree that a large issue is games are placed in one of 10 - 20 categories and there are no ways to niche down to find types that you'll enjoy.
In say music you can go into say the metal genre and find all kinds of super specific niches like death metal, viking metal, black metal etc each with their own hardcore fan bases who you can appeal to and target on sites specific to them.
Gaming doesn't have the same niching and with the explosion of indie and mobile games it really needs it. I for example love multiplayer sim games (anno series) and multiplayer tower defense games (tower wars, sol survivor) and instantly buy any games in these genres that I hear of (I bought a 4 back of sol survivor and 3 pack of tower wars as soon as I heard of them).
Now that I'm developing my own multiplayer tower defense game (http://www.towerstorm.com) I'd like to reach others like me who enjoy this genre but am finding it very hard to do so. I either have to market it to the masses or reach out to specific people via social media.
In say music you can go into say the metal genre and find all kinds of super specific niches like death metal, viking metal, black metal etc each with their own hardcore fan bases who you can appeal to and target on sites specific to them.
Gaming doesn't have the same niching and with the explosion of indie and mobile games it really needs it. I for example love multiplayer sim games (anno series) and multiplayer tower defense games (tower wars, sol survivor) and instantly buy any games in these genres that I hear of (I bought a 4 back of sol survivor and 3 pack of tower wars as soon as I heard of them).
Now that I'm developing my own multiplayer tower defense game (http://www.towerstorm.com) I'd like to reach others like me who enjoy this genre but am finding it very hard to do so. I either have to market it to the masses or reach out to specific people via social media.