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Valve Makes "Boomer Shooter" An Official Genre On Steam (www.gamespot.com)
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[-] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 13 points 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'.

[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Bullet Heaven.

[-] taaz@biglemmowski.win 8 points 10 months ago

I've heard it called Reverse Bullet Hell

[-] Crow@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I call them arcade style games.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

I like Arcade Style. I could see putting coins in and using a single joystick to play it on an arcade box.

[-] Crow@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Exactly!

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 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

[-] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 1 points 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.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Looks like bullet hell rogue-like, though I haven't played it to know for sure. Search for those two genres together.

[-] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

survivors-like

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 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.

[-] otacon239@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Buck@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I call them Horders

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Reverse bullet hell

[-] Blamemeta@lemm.ee -2 points 10 months ago

Bullet hell maybe?

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