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    Bullet heaven is likely what will stick. If you don’t like that it’s also the name of a game, consider that metroidvania contains the name of two games.

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      Metroidvania is a stupid name and always has been. I say this with those 2 series being 2 of my favourite and metroidvania being one of my favourite genres.

      Bullet heaven isn’t too bad though.

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        Metroidvania is a stupid name

        It´s a perfect fit for games like Dead Cells though, isn’t it?

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        I like “search action” instead of Metroidvania. Credit to Tim Rogers.

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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.

    Edit:
    As raised in the comments, actually a rogue-lite as VS has meta-progression.

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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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        Rogue had you start from scratch with a new character in a random map every time.

        Rogue-like games initially meant you start from scratch in a new random world, but you incrementally improve your experience by small buffs you can buy, or changing your starting equipment / skills (sometimes by changing out which character you start as).

        Rogue-like has slowly changed to mean “start over regularly but slowly unlock new items/buffs/equipment/characters/etc to help you further explore a world which may or may not be random”

        So it applies to games like Risk of Rain (and 2), Balatro, Dead Cells, and Rogue Legacy, just to name a few examples (though 3 of those are 2d platformers with randomly generated worlds if I remember right…).

        But yeah it seems to have morphed into a broadly used term for games where you get better over time through purchasing permanent buffs and whatnot (as well as natural skill), but are forced to restart any time you die.

        Vampire Survivors and other similar style games have you constantly restarting when you die so I think the term fits as a partial descriptor.

        Maybe we could adopt the idle/clicker game term Prestige, but that’s more of a voluntary restart when you hit a wall and can’t progress, so I don’t think it quite works.

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          For a while people tried to differentiate roguelikes, which maintained the lack of metaprogression, with roguelites, which did have progression. But that was pretty clearly a losing battle, the two names were far too similar to stay distinct as long as one or the other took off. Some few pendants still try to maintain the distinction, but that ship sailed ages ago.

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            I still use it but there are maybe 2 true rouge-likes published a year and no one plays them so it really doesn’t matter.

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            It’s a really stupid way to differentiate the two as well. Rogue like is the original term and will obviously be the blanket term, but people want to insist that a subset of such games are not actually a subset (“it’s not a rogue like, it’s a rogue lite”) because of the addition of a feature. When in reality most people view all rogue lites as rogue likes.

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        They call it a rogue-like because there is meta-progression even though you “start over” each run.

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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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    Let’s just stick with survivor, or survivor-like. It works fine for roguelikes and soulslikes. No need to force a genre name.

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            Action, Adventure, and Action-Adventure are all different genres. I think people will figure it out.

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              Those aren’t words that can easily be confused for each other due to accents or minor variance in pronunciation.

              And besides, we already have a genre name for Vampire Survivor-alikes. They’re bullet heavens.

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                No we don’t, never heard anyone use that term when referring to games that are similar to Vampire Survivors. It’s always survivor-like game. Also, bullet heaven is not even an accurate description of the game, as in lots of these games you don’t throw lots of projectiles around. If you’re going to force a name change, Mob Hell is a way better descriptor.

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    Boring after 20 minutes type games?

    Its a passive horde survival game.

    The game play is rotating the stick in a rough circle so you keep moving that you can do without even having to look at the screen while you hoover up tiny pellets that make you stronger to survive more blobs of color on the screen.
    Have any of you ever tried risk of rain or heck even cuphead? You can have rapid gameplay and a point to it. This feels like the modern bathroom book as a game. Fun but just enough to be over when you have finished something more worth your time.

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      This feels like the modern bathroom book as a game. Fun but just enough to be over when you have finished something more worth your time.

      Sometimes that’s just what you need. Vampire survivors is my go to for when I burnt out from work and don’t want to think anymore but need something to do.

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        Oh for sure. I actually discovered vampire survivors after finding its mobile clones and liked them all but for 20 minutes at a time.

        Once I tried to play the OG I just couldn’t help but think of it as a passive game though and it lost my interest for long term play sessions. I think it’s an import point that they are passive.

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          Yeah it’s not something you play all day. I usually pick one or two of the challenges to do and by then I’m either de-stressed enough to do something else or I just go to bed.

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            Nice, yeah I get it. I keep struggling to play my much slower games when it’s that late part of night and have decided to beat all my Roguelikes I have, but I can’t help but admit I’d rather be playing Katamari Damacy.
            Now that’s how I destress. But that’s very passive.

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        No I didn’t request anyone else to stop having fun I am just pointing out my interpretation of the games and the name I use for them.

        Why does my opinion on it make you think that I am demanding you stop playing unless you care what others think about your own free time?
        I just like it differently and am voicing that. Your take as an attack means you feel a need to defend it preemptively, and over assume I care about you playing it.

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          Have any of you ever tried risk of rain or heck even cuphead? You can have rapid gameplay and a point to it. This feels like the modern bathroom book as a game. Fun but just enough to be over when you have finished something more worth your time

          If you don’t understand how that paragraph sounds judgmental then I don’t know how to help you.

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            Oh sure. It’s a pointed jab at asking if people have tried games I enjoy while being a little condescending of a genre I find to be best at filling short moments.

            It just doesn’t match that comic cause that’s not demanding people stop enjoying something they like.

            If people can’t separate criticism of a genre as not criticism of them I can’t help them either.

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              It’s a pointed jab at asking if people have tried games I enjoy while being a little condescending of a genre

              So you came into a thread talking about the classification of a genre with admittedly the sole purpose of making condescending jabs at people who enjoy said genre, (and notibly not contributing meaningfully to the actual discussion at hand) but you did NOT tell people to stop having fun.
              You were just telling them they were having fun wrong.

              Glad we cleared that up.

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                No. Pretty much exactly not that and I see you also suffer the issue.

                None of that is correct. And directly against what I just said.

                And I contributed a name.

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                  Then you have expressed yourself poorly.

                  Some of that may come from the fact that you came to a post about “How should we classify X” to complain about how you don’t like X, which isn’t relevant to the classification and no one cares.