The highest earners are spread across several genres, but romance (
various subgenres) and mystery are heavily represented.
Not exact matches
In a tradition going back almost to the birth of cinema, the Hong Kong film industry in particular has always had a major
subgenre devoted to female action heroes, and now, thanks to
various streaming services, there's a good cross-section of films featuring sword - wielding or gun - toting, kick - ass women available for American fans» viewing pleasure.
The Turbo was soon split off into its own
subgenre of 911, but the Carrera in its
various forms has been the main bread winner for the 911 line for some time.
They publish six imprints which include Dahlia (Romance, and
various romance
subgenres), Stargazer (fantasy, steampunk), Nightshade (horror), Casablanca (mystery), Thistle (middle school, YA, New Adult), and Deja Vu (reprints for all genres).
Though when I tuned in, while the livestream was already in progress, I initially was confused, because instead of an awards ceremony, there was a bar diagram on the screen, breaking down genre fiction sales, while a voice detailed the market share of indie writers in the
various SFF
subgenres.
A third
subgenre, also primarily console / Japanese, includes Final Fantasy Tactics (PSX / PSP), Tactics Ogre (originally SNES / PSX, but I'm mainly thinking of the PSP remake), Front Mission (
various), and Disgaea (
various).
Doublefine's Broken Age and
various LucasArts remasters have stood side by side with the narrative fiction
subgenre, but no one has gone as far as Thimbleweed Park from Ron Gilbert, the creator of Monkey Island.
We also took
various types of
subgenres into account, including strategy / RPGs and action / RPGs.