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23% RPG
24% Adventure
25% Action (9% Shooter)
7.5% Strategy
1.5% Sport, Racing & Simulation combined

That's only using GOG's pre-made genre tags though, which are pretty flawed. (Oh, and Indie 27%)
Post edited September 19, 2019 by Leroux
This is one of those times when being the kind of person that makes Excel spreadsheets for fun pays off...

My library consists of:
* Adventure: 56%
* Role-playing: 14%
* Strategy: 14%
* Action: 11%
* Others: 5%
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TheDudeLebowski: I was sorting my library using tags, and I noticed that almost 50% of it is point and click adventure games...
This is because you have purchased correctly. :)
With all the bundles on GoG and especially the ones where it was cheaper to buy the entire bundle rather than the ones you wanted, my library has so much stuff in it that I don't really want to play. But about 50% are RPGs and then it's action games and racing games and some adventure games.

But I joined GoG for the RPGs since that's my bread and butter when it comes to gaming.
Does Galaxy display these percentages somewhere, or are you all adding up each individual genre manually, and dividing by the total?
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skeletonbow: Does Galaxy display these percentages somewhere, or are you all adding up each individual genre manually, and dividing by the total?
Adding the games and dividing by total. Easier with custom tags.
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TheDudeLebowski: Easier with custom tags.
Just out of curiosity, how do you categorize games with overlapping genres?
Too Much!
A fair mix for me but more platformers than anything.
100% books
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toxicTom: Used GOG's filter "Adventure"...

Alan Wake, Bioshock, Call of Juarez.... useless.
Yeah, they call a lot of strategy games RPGs too. Annoys me quite a bit when I sort by genre for sales.

Anyway, I'm too lazy to count them all but I only really play four genres: RPG, FPS, Stealth and Point and Click Adventure. I'd say I mostly own RPGs and Point and Clicks here on GOG, since they sell way more of those than the other two.
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lanipcga: Just out of curiosity, how do you categorize games with overlapping genres?
I pick one genre. For example, I tagged Superhero League of Hoboken as an adventure game, and Hitman: Absolution as stealth. Whichever is the overarching genre.
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skeletonbow: Does Galaxy display these percentages somewhere, or are you all adding up each individual genre manually, and dividing by the total?
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TheDudeLebowski: Adding the games and dividing by total. Easier with custom tags.
Ugh, too much work for lazypants like me hehe.
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skeletonbow: Ugh, too much work for lazypants like me hehe.
:(
what if I said, "I multiply the number of rows by the number of columns."? :P

Edit: just noticed you have over 600 games! Nevermind! :D
Post edited September 24, 2019 by TheDudeLebowski
While I tend to gravitate towards RPG, FPS and (resource gathering) RTS games... pretty much the only genre I don't play is grand strategy games or 4xstrategy or whatever it is called (Paradox strategy games, Civ series, Master of Orion/Magic etc.). Not that I wouldn't want to, but they just feel so overwhelming when I try to play them, casting you to the deep end of the pool right in the beginning.

I much prefer how e.g. resource-gathering RTS games slowly introduce you to the game, starting with the basics and mission by mission moving to more advanced and challenging stuff. Learning by playing, no need to even read a manual.

It is like with music, I listen to pretty much any genre... except jazz. I just don't get jazz. Jizz jazz jozz. Is it even music? Sounds more like random notes and sounds coming out of a noise box.

I'd almost say that I don't listen to hiphop either, but then once in a while I hear something that I like, like this old classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYKI8tAELXY