Inspired by this post, I decided to rank video games in 6 different scales of complexity.

The idea is to help people who are trying to get into gaming, but consider it to be too daunting to learn at first (if you have watched Razbuten's series on "gaming for non-gamers", you know what I'm talking about). People can use this scale to help them find games that are not too hard for them to learn how to play.

The thing is that this learning complexity may be separated into multiple axes, given that some people may struggle more with some things (e.g. quick reflexes) and some people may struggle with others (e.g. moving the character and the camera at the same time).

Thus, I have separated game complexity into 6 axis. Each game could be placed in a location within each of the 6 axis:

1. How hard the game's challenges are to beat

2. How much the game requires fast reaction times

3. How much the game demands moving the character and the camera at the same time

4. How many buttons the game requires

5. How complicated the game mechanics are to understand

6. How much the game guides you towards the objectives

The idea would be for beginner gamers to start with games which are low in all 6 scales, and slowly progress up through each of the 6 scales until they are capable of playing almost everything.

would be also quite helpful if we had some kind of guide or app that lets people classify popular games in these 6 criteria, and then it would recommend games to beginner gamers to progress through them. I don't have time to build such a thing, so if anyone wants to steal the idea and make it, feel free to do so.