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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.
It's a horde survival shooter with upgrades
We've established a name already in the indie space for these. It's a "horde survival shooter" damnit.
Not to be confused with the plain old "horde shooter" like your helldivers 2 and what not
I've just been calling them exactly that: vampire survivors like. It's a mouthful, so I'm open to the alternatives.
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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Distilled roguelite
Bullet Heaven
This is the one I always hear these days.
I heard it from the Castle Superbeast podcast.
Yup, this is the one.
Garliclike
lol saw this on a Steam Review and it is my favorite.
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.
Yep definitely is. I guess OP hasn't heard of brotato and deep rock survivor either.
I've also heard Autoshooter. Seems as good of a genre name as any.
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.
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.
They're already called reverse bullet hell?
I didn't know that, but it fits. That or bullet heaven.
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.
I didn't come up with the name, that's just what people have been calling it for as long as I can remember.
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.
Just like Vampire Survivors!
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MOBA - massive onslaught bullet arena
Survive Em Up
I like my shootemup games personally
Digital crack
Dragon chaser
Freebase gaming
Addiction "simulator"
passive swarm shooter
Pew Pew Woosh.
Epilepsy-vania
GPU Fryer.
S3: Survive and Shoot the Swarm.
Attack-Evader
I always thought of it as a Hord game
Walking Death Simulator
I've always heard Arena Survival