As Forbes recently reported, citing respected experts, the stereotype of the gamer as a 14-year-old teenager is farther from the truth than ever before.
According to the publication, in the States, the average age of a person who regularly plays various electronic games (online and offline, conventional and gambling) is 35 years old. Moreover, “38 percent of console gamers and 43 percent of PC gamers are women,” and “women play console and online games not only for fun, but also to make money, advance their careers and even improve their health.
What games do ladies and gentlemen like to play?
Instead, women and girls prefer:
Casual toys on social media.
And it’s not like someone just doesn’t know how to or is tired of turning off Candy Crush notifications on their Facebook. A recent Quora poll showed that many women spend tons of time playing online social networking games. And the average user of gaming apps on fb and other social networks is a 43-year-old woman. So Candy Crush, Bejeweled Blitz and Farmville are now actually officially women’s games.
online slots
Gambling is not alien to the beautiful half of humanity, of course, either. Therefore, free spins and nice bonuses from gaming sites and services attract not only men. However, according to a well-known resource Android Slots, “in online slots women come not so much for the winnings as to communicate, so they like those sites where in addition to interesting and high-quality design games provides also built-in chats and ratings system for users.
strategies
It turns out that the fashion for online strategy and all sorts of quests in the world has recently appeared another extremely serious growth factor. Games that require the user’s concentration and mental effort, began to be actively used by older people, including ladies in years. And all from the suggestion of doctors and scientists, who consider electronic puzzles one of the most effective and accessible means, which allows to exercise the mind and helps the brain to resist a number of age-related illnesses. And of the most popular among retirees are called strategies, in particular such a fairly simple but fun games like Dawn of the Dragons and Gemcraft, whose audience currently exceeds 20 million people and continues to grow.
Simulators
What is not a way to distract for a while from everyday worries and live a little different life and in a different reality? Or even build your own personal world? The Sims and GTA, as we know, girls and women have never stopped liking. And now to the games of this type are also added Minecraft with Long Darkness. Plus, a significant role in expanding the female audience of the so-called “life simulators” for some time began to play a virtual reality technology. New sensations that VR gives ladies also like.
