> There's a social element, the opportunity to feel competent through combat or exploration-based play, engineering, creativity and finally survival-based gamep

> There's a social element, the opportunity to feel competent through combat or exploration-based play, engineering, creativity and finally survival-based gameplay It may be simplistic or outdated, but one can start with Bartle's taxonomy of player types to understand the broad categories of players [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_taxonomy_of_player_types https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_taxonomy_of_player_type...