What kinds of games do like the least?

• Sidescrolling shooters, bullet hell, shoot 'em ups or whatever they're called.
• 3D platformers.
• Pure action games with minimal emphasis on story.
• Casual games, including but not limited to : HOGs, party, musical and dance games
• Racing games.
• The hardcore wargames with austere interface/rough graphics and steep learning curves, I'd rather watch the History channel or play an RTS/TBS game.
• Multiplayer only games.
• MMOs, never really played one, but I am willing to give story driven, solo-friendly ones a chance, I know that sounds like a contradiction, but that's what I am looking for. Final Fantasy XI/IV, Path of Exile, Conan Exiles, Guild Wars 2, Neverwinter, the Elder Scrolls Online, The Division 1 & 2 and The Secret World are all under my radar.
• Tower defense games.
• Realtime blobbers
• American sports (American football and baseball).
• Very old/dated games, on PC, I'd consider VGA graphics the bare minimum.

visual novels, sports, point n click, most stealth, platformers.

I don't really consider visual novel as games but I am with you on RPG maker and tower defense games.
I suck at grand strategy games but I don't hate them. More like they hate me.

I'm always willing to give new games a go though. I'm really growing tired of the first person horror genre. It feels like they're getting less imaginative as time goes. It's the thing you do when you don't know what to do now. Stories are non existent, it's all about gore and predictable "jump scare" shticks. But hey, it takes all and people seem to enjoy them so I'm cool with leaving them to others and sticking to the remaining 90% of the games out there.

mindless/repetative hack and slash/shooter games... i liked them when i was a kid, but now they just bore me... i need some kind of narrative substance behind them to keep me interested.

mmo's and anything that plays like an mmo (borderlands, etc)

What do you get out of these threads?

Is it the sense of community? Are you naturally curious? Lots of free time? Simply enjoy seeing the red numbers on your navigation bar increase?

Honest question, no shade. You're certainly one of the most frequent thread starters here (possibly #1).

What gets you out of bed each morning to create these inquisitive threads?

To answer your own query, I'd have to say anything I've posted here: https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/ek06A/key-words-or-phrases-that-make-you-instantly-click-hide-giveaway

Most-most?
Racing ( I loved Lego Racers or revolt, with bonuses, standard racing feels like a waste of time compared to other genres) and sports ( played fifa 1998 and loved, lego football or something akin and loved, but I do remember fifa 2005? bore me.Not my stuff)
Though knowing that I love good mechanics, story, narrative and ways of storytelling, not liking racing and sports is not so surprising :)

Moba, mmo's

Visual Novels. How are they even classed as games?

Battle Royales.... I just hate how many there are now and how so many developers are wasting time churning out generic copy/paste battle royale modes.

I dislike:

1. Horror games with Jumpscares e.g. Five nights at Freddy's. That's too much anxiety for me. If you can fight back that's great.
2. First-person shooters with zombies or gore, because who needs to see all that blood up-close in HD

I try to keep an open-mind to most other genres 😅
I only started on Steamgifts 3 months ago. I only had 50 games in my library. I have a pretty tight budget when it comes to games, so I never really ventured outside my usual genres:

1. Survival simulation
2. Rogue-like
3. Life Sims like Stardew Valley

But now I've had my mind opened to new genres thanks to the games I've won here.

1. Anna's Quest - A puzzle Point and click adventure
2. Paranautical Activity - A first-person shooter rogue-like with voxel graphics
3. Soul gambler - a very short visual novel or choose your own adventure (1 hour run)
4. Pony island- a hacking puzzle game
5. Space Mining clicker - a resource management clicker

I'm super grateful to be part of the group Playing Appreciated whom I've won most of my giveaways from 😁

Anything that requires patience. RTS, Tower Defense, regular Strategy and all the strategic sub-branches, TCGs, some puzzle games... I'll make exceptions, of course, but not all that often.

Anything that gives you too much freedom. Sandbox, building-type things, lotta simulators and all o' that...

Unrelated: I also really dislike match-3 games. wHy ArE tHeRe So MaNy?!

BR.

War FPS, so like 95% of them

I hate any game that contains persuasive technology or that connects to Internet without a good reason to. The main problem with that is that they're hard to spot before you actually buy them... 👀

From a purely gameplay style, I really don't like sandbox games like Minecraft (particularly when they're ugly like Minecraft) or "life simulator" games where fulfilling your basic physiological needs (eating, drinking, gathering stuff) is pretty much the core of the gameplay (Rust, The Forest...).

MMORPGs, at least all the ones I tried and that were quite a few....and it makes me mad because they would have so much potential if they were actually good RPGs.

FPS games were never my thing. (First-person anything makes me motion sick.) Or just about anything that involved killing people without thinking too much about it.

Games with tons of achievements for doing absolutely nothing, asset flips, and shady games in general. In terms of genres I don't much care for, I'm not a fan of most sports games, MOBAs, MMORPGs, and war games. I have difficulty with horror games since I scare easily, but I make exceptions for ones with really good story elements.

nowadays, mmorpgs.. I had way more time back in '99-'00 with Ultima Online and later with WOW =P but I like almost any genre as long as the game's good!

Anything multiplayer-only... and strategy games in general are not my cup of coffee. I usually suck at those. Although I will sometimes get obsessed with a game that I would not have gone for in the first place. That recently happened with Plague Inc. Our very own JimsNotDrunk told me about just how much fun it was to eradicate humanity and I got intrigued. Got the game from a [redacted noun] and... damnit, it's really addictive. O_o

There are certainly other genres I dislike but my brain got a lazy and can't be bothered to remind me of them.