Most underappreciated gaming genre?

Flight sims. There aren't many of them, and those that exist are restricted to PC/Mac or some high-end hydraulically driven simulator. I understand it's a niche market and the learning curve is as steep as it gets but I wouldn't mind seeing some new blood around, both in terms of development studios and players.

Puzzle. Even the best games in the genre are often ignored.

strategy genre, a lot of potential there.

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FPS is overrrated,over saturated and getting a tad stale.

Honestly i'd say platformers are horrendously underrated games.Especially this gen despite the 10 score of SMG2.

I know right? Let's not forget the 9.5 for SMG, 8.5 for DK and Rayman, 9.5 for meatboy and braid, 9.0 of little big planet and LBP2, 8.5 for new super mario bros and 8.0 for super mario 3D land. Horrendously underrated indeed.

but a lot of people discard them because they are platfomers;)

On the internet? Puzzle. You get a truly fantastic game in that genre(World of Goo, Portal, Braid) and act like it's a second cIass citizen compared to a "AAA game" in the action genre. jg4xchamp

Kinect games were I must move my hips in a rhythmic fashion.

Stealth

Survival Horror

Adventure

Puzzle

Strategy

Grand strategy and 4X games

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On the internet? Puzzle. You get a truly fantastic game in that genre(World of Goo, Portal, Braid) and act like it's a second cIass citizen compared to a "AAA game" in the action genre. jg4xchamp

On the internet? Puzzle. You get a truly fantastic game in that genre(World of Goo, Portal, Braid) and act like it's a second cIass citizen compared to a "AAA game" in the action genre. jg4xchamp

Puzzle are integrated in a lot of today's adventure games so it's like RPG now.. where it's an element implemented in a game to give it a boost. Making a Puzzle game would be hard if you think about it.. you'll have to constantly make up different puzzles and make them not too hard and not too obvious. That's a hard thing to chew on.. so it's better to implemented in adventure games where you would solve the puzzles using gadgets and the such... (Zelda/darksiders/castlevania... etc etc... )