Mobile Game genres are dead. Long live the new genres!
summary
Argument that app-store labels fail and a new system is needed; GameRefinery builds a three-layer taxonomy (4 categories, genres, 52 subgenres) by manually tagging 200+ features across a 100,000-game database and 2,500+ top game analyses. The taxonomy surfaces concrete findings: MMORPGs >50% of RPG revenue in China, turn‑based RPGs ~65% in Japan and 52% of US RPG revenue, and reveals feature gaps (e.g., non‑competitive co‑op in top turn‑based titles). The system enables market share, competitor and feature‑level comparisons.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 1:55Intro
- 3:10Intro to Game Refinery
- 5:03Genre Classification Design Taxonomy
- 17:24Action Rpgs
- 18:46Mmorpgs
- 18:562d Mmorpgs
- 21:08Survival
- 26:37China
- 27:22Biggest Movers
- 34:09Why Rpgs Is So Popular in East Asian Countries
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