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Valve Makes "Boomer Shooter" An Official Genre On Steam (www.gamespot.com)

submitted 2 years ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 13 points 2 years ago (12 children)

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 22 points 2 years ago

Bullet Heaven.

[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 8 points 2 years ago

I've heard it called Reverse Bullet Hell

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Crow@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I call them arcade style games.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago

Exactly!

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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 2 years 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.

[–] Buck@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I call them Horders

[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

survivors-like

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Reverse bullet hell

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] Blamemeta@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago

Bullet hell maybe?