Other comments said it but I think bullet heaven is perfect
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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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.
Survival games are already a thing, though.
Too late it's Vamvor.
Vampvore
roots in voreaphilia
Vampier
Survivor
Digital crack
Dragon chaser
Freebase gaming
Addiction "simulator"
passive swarm shooter
Swarm shooter, reverse bullet hell, or enemy hell
Yea it’s always been reverse bullet hell.
Which is why it's always been bullet heaven
Attack-Evader
I always thought of it as a Hord game
Pew Pew Woosh.
Epilepsy-vania
GPU Fryer.
S3: Survive and Shoot the Swarm.
Walking Death Simulator
I've always heard Arena Survival
I thought it was a survivor-like?
Robotron 2084 clones?
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.
Isn't it already Arena?
The genre is ASS games. Can't go wrong with that.
It's a horde survival shooter with upgrades
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.
I've just been calling them exactly that: vampire survivors like. It's a mouthful, so I'm open to the alternatives.