Obviously we're all about stuff being non-woke here, but I think I'm right in identifying something of a sizeable niche for game genres that aren't normally explored in modern gaming anymore. If there are any they're either one title made in 2019 or something or they're woke as fuck which makes you realise just how shit the industry has been lately in simply getting stuff released.
My personal favourite genres in these categories as examples would be:
. Simulation games/City Builders
. RTS
. RPG/ARPGs
. Space Sim
What's remarkable is some of these aren't even all that difficult to code yet all I ever see for the most part are a never ending spam wave of woke walking simulators with context buttons. Extremely buggy early access survival city builders that never get finished, an occasional very woke RPG and then another neverending spam wave of hipster style 2D platformer games.
What are the sort of genres that you guys miss now I've explained my reasoning? I definitely miss proper simulation games the most with RTS' close behind. However I could go for a good RPG or space sim any day as long as it's not shit.
Shock-Styled games (which I guess I'll define as "First Person Narrative-Driven Exploratory RPGs", where the main character wields a weapon in one hand and "magic" with the other.) There's so few out there, and every series I'm aware of that does this died on a sub-par entry.
"Casual" RTS games. I played a ton of RA2 and a little bit of several late-90's and early 00's RTS games, and while I love the base building and exploration elements, I tend to dislike engaging in combat that I didn't initiate, so non-coop MP and AI skirmishes aren't much fun for me a lot of the time.
First person puzzle games with enough (but not too much) of a narrative to make the game a cohesive unit instead of just a series of puzzles. Preferably with a well defined set of mechanics. MYST is great, but Portal is way easier to pick up and navigate, in large part due to the well defined mechanics used throughout the series.
And to echo a couple other people here: "BL3 but not woke", and "Civ IV with hexes" (don't think any game will ever overtake my actual playtime in Civ IV+Expansions.)