Fixing the Genre Fusion

Genre fusions are a bit weird, AAA devs seem to love lumping a bunch of genres together to try and appeal to as many people as possible, but the end result is often a watered-down version of two different games that happen to share a program. So how can we fix this?

Well, The Architect has a few ideas, and most of their inspiration comes not from gaming, but cookery- and how great chefs can combine ingredients with very different tastes by unifying them around a single shared theme. Yum.

You Saw:

Cook Serve Delicious 2- 2017

Overcooked 2- 2018

Battle Chef Brigade- 2017

Spelunky- 2008

Rise to Ruins- Early Acess

Northgard- 2017

Starcraft 2- 2012

Mass Effect Andromeda- 2017

Mass Effect 3- 2012

Mass Effect 2- 2010

Assassin's Creed Syndicate- 2015

Assassin's Creed Origins- 2017

Far Cry 5- 2018

Yoku's Island Express- 2018

Super Metroid- 2994

Hollow Knight- 2017

Stardew Valley- 2016

Katana Zero- 2019

Borderlands The Pre-Sequel- 2014

Toki Tori 2- 2013

Braid- 2008

Enter The Gungeon- 2016

Prey- 2017

Prey: Mooncrash- 2018

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup- 2006

Slay The Spire- 2017

Magic The Gathering Arena- 2019

Celeste- 2018

Hades- Early Access

bejewelled 3- 2010

Puzzle Quest- 2007

You must Build A Boat- 2015

huniepop- 2015

Sanctum 2- 2013

Undertale- 2015

Don't Starve 2013

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze- 2014

Narbacular Drop- 2005

Portal- 2007

Portal 2- 2011

The Witness- 2016

Antichamber- 2013

Borderlands 2- 2012

Runescape- 2001

Demon Souls- 2009

Dark Souls 3- 2016

Dark Souls- 2012

Shadow of the Colossus- 2005

Dark Souls 2- 2014

Final Fantasy 15- 2016

For The King- 2017

Maplestory 2- 2015

Tooth And Tail- 2017

XCOM 2- 2016

Terraria- 2011

Subnautica- 2018

Minecraft- 2009

Interesting Links:

Crackermilk! - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMn-zv1SE-2y6vyewscfFqw

That Prey GDC Talk- https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/335022/Attend_GDC_and_see_how_Arkanes_innovative_Prey_DLC_Mooncrash_was_made.php

Interesting news about a possible return of Mass Effect: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2019/04/10/mass-effect-is-warming-back-up-at-bioware-how-should-it-return/#1195b2902020