I play a wide range of genre's and don't really have a favourite, if the game is good, I'll play it.
Side scrolling shooters like, R-Type, Harmful Park, Einhander, Insector X (arcade) to name a few.
I love classic arcade beat em ups too, The Simpsons, TMNT, Double Dragon, Kung Fu Master, etc.
No idea what genre Pang is, but it's still a cracking game.
Not so keen on arcade racers though, at least not since Need For Speed Underground. The only racer I play now is Mario Kart.
I have a raspberry Pi based arcade machine so I still play all the old classics from time to time.
I really enjoy games with progression so most of my time these days is spent on Sea Of Thieves, and it's probably why i played WoW daily from 2006 to 2021.
Not really one for first player shooters though.

I'm not sure, which is a horrible non answer, but I really am scratching my brain on this one. I don't know if I ever really thought about it seriously...

Scifi? I think that genre has a soft spot for me (Iwar2, Crying Suns) Fantasy would be up there, particularly traditional western (Morrowind, Dominions 5).

Maybe builders too? Love Kerbal Space Program and RimWorld.

Actually, maybe it's ones where I can insert my imagination into the story/RP a little bit. That might be it.

Oddly I can pick one out I should like but dont seem to really quickly. Epic RPG's. They check all the right boxes for what I think I'd like, but I bounce off them now often than not. Only ever finished Planescape: Torment, but that may have been because it was amazing.

Well thats a hard question especially since i play a lot of genres. But i would say:

Horror
Survival
Survival Horror
RPG's
Jump&Run
Platformer
Souls-like
Sandbox
Anime
Stealth
Immersive/Realism

For me it's been open world procedurally generated sandbox types. I don't like being given prefabricated objectives. In fact, I think my favorite genre doesn't exist yet. It would be the holodeck of Star Trek fame, where you just get dropped into an simulated environment and do whatever you want.

- RPGs: I like slower Gameplay approaches, so mostly Realtime with Pause or Round-Based Combat etc.
- Strategy Games: mostly singleplayer, I am too bad for multiplayer , sadly AIs are also often bad
- Action-Adventures: though many of them are too hectical for me (at least now adays *getting old*)
- Adventures: though I would like to have more Adventures with a modern approach (more gameplay than just riddles) and a better story than most have

Overall I agree with some other people here, I am also still waiting for the perfect genre or the perfect game to be honest.
But this thread shows exactly what the problem (for developers) is, the tastes of people are simply too different.

• Fighters

Favorite Games: Garou: Mark of the Wolves, Dead or Alive 2, Tekken 3

• Brawlers

Favorite Games: Streets of Rage 2, Mother Russia Bleeds, X-Men: The Arcade Game

• Top Down Shooter

Favorite Games: Starward Rogue, Shock Troopers/Shock Troopers 2nd Squad, Hotline Miami/Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, Ruiner

• Rail Shooters

Favorite Games: Beast Buster, The House of the Dead/The House of the Dead 2, Area 51, Halo Fireteam Raven

• 2D Platformers

Favorite Games: Shinobi/Shadow Dancer/The Revenge of Shinobi/Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master, Castlevania/Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, Slain: Back from Hell, Limbo, Typoman Revised

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V rising online (very hyper for this one these days with my cousins)
destiny 2
LoL
ghost recon breakpoint
the division 2

I am a very... specialized... player of games, I mostly play strategy and strategy-adjacent, followed by puzzles, and a few exceptions (some visual novels, a few metroidvanias, the very rare CRPG that clicks, some couch coop). Roguelites could be anything those days, so whether I like it depends on whether it is a strategy-roguelite or a shooter-roguelite :P

By strategy-adjacent I mean management/tycoon, city and colony builders, heavy simulations, digital board and cardgames, tower defense, wargames. Within strategy I tend to favor 4X, grand strategy and other big and sprawling games over the smaller and/or more abstract - Civ and Stellaris over Into the Breach and Chess, for example. For RTS I tend to prefer the "overly complex, single-player focused" over the fast and balanced multiplayer kind; for tactics games (not tactical RPGs, tactics games) I am quite picky. TD and wargames could easily be considered "proper" strategy and not just adjacent, but like boardgames they have their own distinct niches (i.e., they are made and marketed with different goals, audiences, design philosophies, etc) so I don't put them under the strategy genre.