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We need to decide on a genre name for Vampire Survivors-like games before a really terrible one sticks (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 6 days ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Portosian@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

passive swarm shooter

[–] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Swarm shooter, reverse bullet hell, or enemy hell

[–] falidorn@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yea it’s always been reverse bullet hell.

[–] glitches_brew@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Which is why it's always been bullet heaven

[–] PacMan@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

I always thought of it as a Hord game

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 5 points 6 days ago

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

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 6 days ago

Walking Death Simulator

[–] mad_kamikaze_man@feddit.org 5 points 6 days ago

Attack-Evader

[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

I thought it was a survivor-like?

[–] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 days ago

I've always heard Arena Survival

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 1 points 5 days ago

You should also crosspost on !vampires@lemmy.zip

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Robotron 2084 clones?

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Haha, it is very similar, but I think robotron is a twin-stick shooter since you control movement and the shooting.

Its one of my favorite games though, my grandfather had the actual arcade cabinet.

[–] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago

I call them circle spawners. The enemies spawn in a rough circle around you and close in. I think you can modify that with other terms depending on the specifics of what the game adds in.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

It's a horde survival shooter with upgrades

[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

Isn't it already Arena?

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

I've just been calling them exactly that: vampire survivors like. It's a mouthful, so I'm open to the alternatives.

[–] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

The genre is ASS games. Can't go wrong with that.

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