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Comment by ekianjo | Hacker News Reader

Surprising that the author completely "missed" sports games. Sports games (like soccer or other team sports) are by nature "emergent" as every single game is different. Trying to narrow down the definition to everything that's like Dwarf Fortress and Rim World is incredibly reductive.

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I wouldn't be surprised if it's just lack of familiarity. Sports games come across as actively hostile to people who don't already know how to play sports games.

I've tried over the years to get into the various big franchises when I see something very cheap, but there's never a high-level tutorial for "I don't understand the gameplay and I barely understand the sport."

I'm guessing that if you go find some people playing football in a vacant lot near where you live, they'd be willing to give you a tutorial for "I don't understand the gameplay and I barely understand the sport," if you play with them, anyway.

Also minecraft which is not best but definitely biggest.

Yeah, at least minecraft made it into the list of Other Games.

Imo, minecraft has more emergent gameplay than some roguelike as Tales of Maj'Eyal, which has a story and mostly the same map / similar dungeons.

I have to say that even after reading your post, I don´t understand how sport games could offer any narrative. But I´ve disliked every team sport I´ve encountered and never gotten the appeal at all. Maybe the author is the same.

> I don´t understand how sport games could offer any narrative

The narrative is what happens during the game and how each team reacts to the present situation by adjusting their strategies and actions.

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