A few years ago in 2009 a game called Just Cause 2 was released and was considered one of the first major open world sandbox game successes along with another more familiar game Minecraft. In 1996 Resident Evil was released and praised as an amazing and unique survival horror game, now browsing steam it seems like every other game is a survival horror game and every other survival horror is one with zombies in it. These genres and a few others (first and third person shooters free-to-play etc).
The reason why every developer who just finished watching some YouTube tutorials usually chooses games of these genres is caused by how easy it is to crap out a horribly basic shooter and how it's equally as easy to get published and charge five to ten dollars for something that would maybe be considered good, if it were an iphone game.
This is only the beginning of what might be quite an interesting discussion. Go much further into details and give some more examples and some more input from other sources.
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