Games

If you enjoy storytelling, adventures and text adventures are better than RPGs. Rougelikes are better role playing than wrpg/jrpgs, and for combat and resource management you should go for Strategy or tower defense games.
RPGs are just introductory games with big contents.

Easy to learn, hard to master, lack in variety tier
-Puzzle
-Music
-Shmup

Has depth, but too difficult to learn properly
-Fighting
-RTS / TBS
-FPS
-Rougelikes
-Management Simulation

Best enjoyed as a social means in short bursts
-Sports
-Racing
-Party / Traditional
-arcade simulation
-arcade ticket

Charming, but gets old fast:
-Rail Shooter
-Platformer
-Adventure
-Tower Defense

Cheaper than Lego:
-Sandbox

For people with elementary reading comprehension:
-Visual Novel
-Interactive Video
-Dating Sim
-Edutainment

-I only do chores in digital forms:
RPG

This word does not categorize gameplay:
MMO