What kinds of games do Teen Girls like

[Legion_27]

Hi, I'm a uni student doing game designs and we have to do market research about what kinds of games teen girls like (12-18). So could some of the girls on this form take a look at this survey(only takes 2 mins of your time)? Normally the big companies pay thousands of dollars for proper research but we cant really do that.Also we(me and my team) don't really know so many girls in the age range which makes posting this around the internet kinda our only option.

http://questionpro.com/t/AKakIZQPfx
Thanks in advance for any help we might get, even a little counts.

 

[nariette]

I filled it in for you, but I think that the teenage girls you'll find here will be mostly rpg and fps gamers, while your survey also targets casual gamers. To have a more varied result you should try to look for girls in other places than game forums. Because I think you'll mostly find here are the minority of the girls, while I think you want to be looking at different kinds of groups. Maybe you can try a different forum where all kinds of people come.

 

[TehCookie]

If you're at university, try asking female freshmen. You don't have to know them to ask them to take a survey. It will also give you more diverse results than only asking on a gaming forums where all the girls are gamers.

Also no action or puzzle games in the question asking what kind of games I usually play? You should of stuck with the basic genres.

 

[Foolery]

Based on my personal experience quite a few teenage girls are into Pokemon, Call of Duty, Halo. Something easy to pick up and play. But I'd also agree that you'd likely get better results asking somewhere else.

 

[IndomitableSam]

I'm 30 now, but when I was a teen it was mostly RPGs. Final Fantasy, Xenogears, Parasite Eve, Zelda... Also city builders like Pharoah. The Sims, Diablo, Skies of Arcadia... Even Asheron's Call, which was an MMO. Then FFXI when it came out a bit later.

... I forgot the late 90's had so many really good games.

 

[Karoshi]

Dude, go to Tumblr and ask people around, because that's where most female gamers are hanging out. Try looking for "artsy" blogs that have many gifs, graphics and/or stuff about feminism. You could also try browsing the gaming tags, like Assassin's Creed and Mass Effect.

From experience though, most female teenagers like story-centric games and RPGs. Some though love Nintendo stuff, others are into COD or rogue-likes.

 

[Carnagath]

Guy here, but to my experience from friends, with teenage girls there's usually a dad that's responsible for kicking off their gaming hobby, since normally their interests are different. They start playing all kinds of stuff from that point on, so their interests are pretty varied. It seems pretty hard to me to sum up "games that teen girls like" from a simple survey. It would actually be much easier to do that with teenage boys. Best of luck though.

 

[Yopaz]

Well, my sister liked Pokemon, Super Smash Bros., Super Mario, Kirby, Worms, Bejeweled among other things.

I have at least 3 friends who liked World of Warcraft, Zelda, Pokemon and one who liked StarCraft. I have a feeling you'll find girls have quite varied taste.

 

[Story]

No offense to the escapist, but I don't think this is the correct place to collect your data even partly if only because most of this community tends to male. You're technically asking young adult men what they think teenage girls play. Unless that's what you want to do, then disregard that statement.

When I was in that age range, I played a lot of jrpgs western RPGs, platformers and simulators. So that's Final Fantasy, Obilvion, Fable, Pokemon, Mario sunshine, Spyro, Viva Piñata, Nintendogs, and Shadow of the Colossus to name a few. That's pretty stereotypical I guess. My sister, who is at your age range, plays Candy Crush, The Sims, Mario, and Saints Row. She considers herself a casual gamer.

 

[gamer_parent]

I feel that asking what teenage girls play, or prefer to play, is the right idea towards solving the female gamer demographic problem, but asking what existing players play, or rather, asking that question here, is totally the wrong approach.

A quick look on Alexa shows that most of the audience here are male and college aged, with women SEVERELY under represented here. The women you DO see here, chances are, are anomalies rather than the norm and are hardly representative of what the mainstream teenager would care about.

And even among THIS specific group here, you generally see several recurring threads: few FPS players, few fighting games, almost no GTA-style game players, etc.

I have a whole thesis on why this is, but that's for another time.

 

[white_wolf]

I'll go check it out. When I was a teen I'd play Shoots (FP and 3rd), Strategies (RT & TB), horror, RPG, action adventures but really the long and short of it is girls and women play games of all types. Also there are gamers in their 20's, 30's, and 40's so don't just stop producing products for 18 year olds.

EDIT:

So I'm checking it out and the question:

Which of the following elements would you like to be in a video game you would play

then you fallow this up with answers like puzzle, power ups, lock picking, fighting, ect these are from all types of games I suppose it would've been better to tag the genre and give us these options because if I'm playing Sniper Elite V2 I don't want to have puzzles in the middle of this game but if I'm playing Tomb Raider I expect to. The question is too broad I just checked everything and if all that was included in one game that would be bad.

Also for cute looking characters was that suppose to be cute as in fluffy or cute as in pretty or handsome? I can take that either way.


You've also left out several genres though they're similar and or dead genres they're still valid to gauge weather players want them to come back the games in these genres are still in the collection of these gamers.

Horror, 3rd person (because some players only do 3rd they won't touch 1st), survival, action/adventure

 

[Angelblaze]

I love how the moment I see this thread I immediately go 'Civ 5' and am the only person here to bring it up.

Yes I'm 16 and I really like civ 5, I was a little let down that the AI is a little too...demanding and unrealistic with trading? Would've been better if they took into account what their populations were demanding of them for their "love the king" days and weighed those resources much more heavily (it doesn't appear they do).

But yeah...Civ 5, League of Legends, Warframe, Chinese DnF, Dofus 2, Wakfu, Smite, Tera and hopefully soon Kingdom hearts 3, Destiny and Blade and Soul (time to upgrade my computer now that I think about it...)

 

[gamer_parent]

I took a look at the questions and I have to agree with white_wolf. Some of your questions are good, but a lot of them are still off the mark and are seriously steeped in traditional gaming conventions, which is ostensibly a more hetero caucasian male point of view.

If you're just doing this to fill an assignment and get your A, then this will PROBABLY do fine. But if it wants to have any real meaning, you need to dig a little deeper and get beyond the base activities / mechanics. What you should be looking for are motivational factors that causes them to play that goes beyond just the game itself.

For a start, take a look at the Bartle test, which breaks down the players into four types: achiever, socialite, explorer, and gladiator. You'll see a million variants of this, by the way. They are all fine, just gives different perspectives, I believe. This breakdown is not obsessed things like "stealth games" or "mini-games" or what have you, but focuses on the specific cones of interaction that excites people.

Taking this further and formulating your own model can actually help further inform and develop your understanding of gamer demands and I think at THAT point you will actually be able to gain some real insight into other gamer minorities.