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misk@sopuli.xyz to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months ago

We need to decide on a genre name for Vampire Survivors-like games before a really terrible one sticks

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We need to decide on a genre name for Vampire Survivors-like games before a really terrible one sticks

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misk@sopuli.xyz to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months ago
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No, Steam, they're not "bullet hell action roguelikes".
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    Bullet Heaven

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      This is the one I always hear these days.

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        I heard it from the Castle Superbeast podcast.

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      Yup, this is the one.

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    Garliclike

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      lol saw this on a Steam Review and it is my favorite.

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    It’s an autoshooter isn’t it?
    Vampire Survivors would be a rogue-like autoshooter.

    Like Backpack Battles is an autobattler.

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      I’ve also heard Autoshooter. Seems as good of a genre name as any.

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      I don’t know why people keep calling it rogue like. Rogue-likes have a lot more randomness than an easily manipulated item drop system. I don’t know that a random map is a necessity but it certainly needs something along those lines.

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    I thought it was already considered a reverse bullet-hell. But I do like Bullet heaven as well.

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      I’ve heard from at least one smaller channels that it’s a bullet heaven. That’s at least what they call this style of game.

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    They’re already called reverse bullet hell?

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      I didn’t know that, but it fits. That or bullet heaven.

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      What in the heck is a reverse bullet hell? If a bullet hell is “so many bullets” then I have to image it’s like… Not many bullets at all. That sounds too easy.

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        Normal bullet hell (Touhou): the enemies shoot a hell of bullets at you. And your job is to avoid it. Reverse bullet hell (Vampire Survivors): you shoot a hell of bullets at the enemies. And your job is to shoot even more, bigger, stronger bullets.

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        Just like Vampire Survivors!

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    Survive Em Up

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    MOBA - massive onslaught bullet arena

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      FPS- Frantic Progression Survivor

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    passive swarm shooter

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    Swarm shooter, reverse bullet hell, or enemy hell

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      Yea it’s always been reverse bullet hell.

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        Which is why it’s always been bullet heaven

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    Attack-Evader

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    Pew Pew Woosh.
    Epilepsy-vania
    GPU Fryer.
    S3: Survive and Shoot the Swarm.

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    Digital crack

    Dragon chaser

    Freebase gaming

    Addiction “simulator”

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    Walking Death Simulator

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    I always thought of it as a Hord game

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    I’ve always heard Arena Survival

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