Social Orientation

Habitus cooperative ↔ competitive · medium

Social Orientation describes the spectrum on which players locate themselves between cooperative, competitive and solitary play styles on a dimensional scale, not typological.

Design question – Do your players prefer to play with each other, against each other or by themselves?

Reference example – Mario Kart: the players choose for themselves whether to race against each other or together against the AI. Pandemic and Catan on the same evening: whoever likes to cooperate thrives in the one, whoever likes to compete in the other.