But only 23 percent of World of WarCraft players are women. 36 percent of high fantasy MMO players are women. While these stats fall into line with broad perceptions about gender preferences in gaming, the research does throw up some interesting outliers. The number for tactical shooters is four percent. Only two percent of sports games players are women and girls. So, 69% of respondents who like match-3 games are women. The findings show gender breakdowns for each genre. Quantic Foundry asked respondents to list up to nine games they played the most. Game consumer research outfit Quantic Foundry recently released a report on the gender breakdown of various game genres, which shows the kinds of games favored by women and girls.īased on online surveys of more than 270,000 gamers - 18.5 percent of whom identified as female players - the report shows that mobile match-3 games and social farming games are heavily favored by women, but that sports and shooting games are unpopular.īut the numbers also show that certain games within genres can confound expectations, attracting far more women than their competitors. These include Dragon Age: Inquisition, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and Star Wars: The Old Republic, which outpaced overall gender breakdown stats for RPGs, open world games and sci-fi fantasies.
A new survey shows how certain games are more appealing to women and girls than their genre competitors.