A bot posts weekly and usually me, CardboardEmpress, laleyou, and kopi-pasted will comment; and sometimes we make posts. I just posted a game there in the past 3 days. Weird…

For what it is worth, when I log into my incremental.social account I see the posts you make there.

I do know about shmups and probably should have made that exclusion in the post body, I will go do that. But I input “shooter” into the community search and got flat nothing. No FPS or anything, and given how popular those are I’m very surprised there is not any community for it. Not great with any more specific examples because I don’t really play shooters myself.

Your comments made me curious what our threshold for “too new” is, my first guess being 5 years. (Thanks XKCD.)

It’s actually

catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game

according to our sidebar. But you pose a good question if Early Access release counts as release, especially if it’s been in EA for this long.

Ooo, fellow Linux gamer. Did you check ProtonDB to see if they have a fix for your issue? I’m hyped for Timberborn but also have a personal rule to never buy Early Access. Also, we would like this post over in !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works.

Please.

I agree about consolidation. Also was nosing around for fighting game communities and saw a lot that should probably consolidate too. “Fighting Game” will give you more results than “Fighting Games,” seems obvious but I actually wrote that genre off as being totally dead on Lemmy before I input “Fighting Game” and found two that are limping along but not dead.

Please change !otomegames@ani.socialo to !otomegames@ani.social

Thanks, I guess? I was going to wait to gather more active communities before releasing a list.

While I have peoples’ attention, strategy games have a ton of communities, one which has been poked recently into living (!strategy@lemmy.world) and many which are dead.

• !strategygames@sopuli.xyz
• !turnbasedstrategy@lemmy.world
• !realtimestrategy@lemmy.world
• !rts@reddthat.com

Just checked the links, since you said you did not crosspost.

It’ll say it was crossposted if it is the same link, even if someone else posted it and it was years ago. This is not perfect of course, sometimes I have posted the same link in three relevant communities and you would think each post would have two links: one for each other community, but each post only has one link.

Clicked to ask if you crossposted to discounted game communities, was pleased to see I didn’t actually need to ask because you have already done that.

If you end up making this please @ me! I’d be happy to help if you want. I’m also modding three communities now and I have to balance that.

Ugh. If you are suggesting it it’s probably a good idea. Just a bit frustrated that two community promo things exist, especially since in my experience this is its smaller cousin that usually just sees duplicates from !newcommunities@lemmy.world. The only benefit I can think of is that if Beehaw is still defederated from lemmy.world because of its size they can see !communitypromo@lemmy.ca too. Will be posting there soon…