I occasionally get reviews like:
It seems that each genre has its own popularity on each platform. Choice of genre, relative to platform, affects the review scores.
How do I know which game genre fits or works well with which platform?
Which genre fits or works well with which platform
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Kalec's answer has some good general points but misses the actual question a bit, so here goes:
First, all features improve the game if they're included. Some are mutually exclusive, though - you can't have stereo and surround sound, for example. Obviously in a case like that surround sound would be a better boost to game quality than stereo.
BUT: Each feature costs development time to implement, and you only have a limited amount of it. If the amount of features you're pushing into a given field requires more dev time than you've allocated, the overall quality of that field decreases -- you'll see a percentile value behind the field name. When that happens, you'll have to pick and choose which features are really important, or allocate more time to that field.
Bigger games have more dev time, so can fit more features simultaneously.
You will occasionally get messages about matches or mismatches of target audience and platform you have chosen. Your choice of audience has a minor effect on the review score, it primarily affects the number of sales your game will generate. The higher the sales modifier of the selected platform is, the more sales you will get with that target audience
Here is a chart of well-fitting and non-fitting platforms for each game audience (notice that Gameling is a non-fitting platform for the 'Everyone' audience):
(The numbers after the platform name represent sales modifiers, well-fitting platforms have sales modifiers greater than or equal 100% and non-fitting platforms have modifiers less than 100%)
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++= best,+= good, otherwise, avoid these combinationsThis table is generated from raw data collected from the game.
In addition to the above table, certain combinations of game work better when targeted at specific audiences, for example Post Apocalyptic/Action and Post Apocalyptic/RPG games are best suited when targeted towards more mature audiences.