• NekuSoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de
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    10 months ago

    On a semi-related note: Is there a commonly agreed upon term for games like ‘Vampire Survivors’ yet and does it have its own tag on Steam?

    So far, I’ve only found ‘Action Roguelike’, but that one has a lot of games that are, well, action based Roguelikes, like ‘Binding of Isaac’ and ‘Risk of Rain’.

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      10 months ago

      Horde something I think? Horde shooter is fps wave style games, so top down horde… Thing.

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      10 months ago

      a commonly agreed upon term

      God, I wish. No, there’s like a dozen. Off the top of my head, I’ve heard

      Survivorlike
      Arena Survival
      Bullet Survival
      Reverse Bullet Hell
      Bullet Heaven
      Bullet Shooter
      Survival Shooter
      Autoshooter
      Horde Shooter
      Horders
      Anti-tower defence

      If any one of them gained prominance, we could have a steam tag, but nobody will agree, so here we are

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        10 months ago

        Yeah, it’s kinda telling when I explicitly ask if there’s a commonly used term yet and I get like a dozen of different answers.

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      10 months ago

      Bullet heaven is what I’ve heard as an antithesis of bullet hell. You’re the source of the bullets.

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      10 months ago

      For Steam, not yet. Thy might eventually go the “Open World Survival Crafting” route and combine the popular tags to one, but for now they are Bullet Hell + Action Roguelike.