In the past years there has been a rising number of zombie games made, particualrly by hobby and indie developers. To be honest I nver shared this enthusiasm about the zombie theme, and hope that it would pass, but it still goes on …
But say, what do you think will be the next hype after zombie games?
What was the hype before zombies? Was there one? I seriously can’t remember.
I don’t think zombies will ever die (ha!) off personally, they are just too damn easy to put into a game, and people love killing them. Maybe their popularity will fall a bit, but I doubt people will get sick of them.
Cant you see, space / sandbox games ofcourse 
With zombies in them! You are right though, sandbox games are all the rage right now, and I enjoy them too 
I was rather hoping it’s going to be “robots” but this never seems to happen…
Cas
I love dinosaurs man °A°
GIGANTIC FLUFFY BUNNIES FROM OUTER SPACE!!
Or Killer tomatoes, Carnivourous carrots…
It all depends on what the blockbuster companies decides to hype
I hope zombies doesn’t disappear just yet because I have a great zombie idea I have to complete first.
And Cas, aren’t robots always in fashion…?
Robots seem determinedly unfashionable.
Cas
dare you to skin one of your robot games to be based on zombies
In a future world … the zombies returned… Attack of the Z.
(just being cheeky)
j.
You jest, but there’s possibly more than a grain of truth in it.
Cas
I for one always think robots makes whatever it may be a little bit better. Robots and lasers. But it may be because I’m old…
Actually, hypes and fads have been around, but it just moved from “TV/Movies” to “Games”. Just to be clear, my definition of a fad is something that both guys and gals are into at the same time. ( I’m only speaking for the place from which I was raised of course… it is vastly opinionated 
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Before - Super Heroes
1990’s TV/Movies - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Power Rangers
2000’s TV/Games - Pokemon
Current Movies/TV/Games - (The Undead) Vampires/Zombies/Werewolves
If I were to take a wild guess into the future. Let’s see…
Since American culture has become more and more nerd based as we move along, the trends that are popping up have more and more to do with video game culture. Events such as ComicCon (http://www.comic-con.org/) and E3 (http://www.e3expo.com/) are becoming bigger and bigger each year with all sorts of media coverage. Add this to the growing amount of Youtube videos about gaming culture and I think we may have a winner.
If I were to put money on it, it would have to be gaming related. Probably 90’s retro-gaming themed? Just a wild guess…
Zombies will probably never completely disappear, because they are a representation of something, something evil and senseless, the worst in humankind you cannot stop, that gets stronger and stronger by ‘killing’ people and so on…
There will be more concepts, dunno which, but zombies are always good if you really want to give the player a paranoic feeling or the ability to kill tonnes of people without having to consider moral.
Zombies are so popular because they give us a fantasy way to dehumanise humans. You can kill and maim and splortch and mutilate things that look just like real human beings without feeling like a violent psychopath on the surface. Underneath of course… well, it would appear that human beings have some sort of built-in desire to maim and kill each other, which explains a lot of things.
Cas
You are aware that is what every movie producer is desperately trying to find out?
Ahh that’s right! Everyone at school had a power ranger action figure. And yo-yos made a brief resurgence, at least in Australia anyway. …Now there’s a thought… iYoyo.
A pity. Robots and robotic civilizations make great stories for sci-fi based games.
Yoyo puzzle games?
Well lets all be real here. We all want to kill some people in our lives. Zombie games let us get rid of this desire and frustrations without hurting anyone.