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
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Bullet heaven is likely what will stick. If you don't like that it's also the name of a game, consider that metroidvania contains the name of two games.
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I've just been calling them exactly that: vampire survivors like. It's a mouthful, so I'm open to the alternatives.
Too late it's Vamvor.
Vampvore
roots in voreaphilia
Vampier
Survivor
Let's just stick with survivor, or survivor-like. It works fine for roguelikes and soulslikes. No need to force a genre name.
Other comments said it but I think bullet heaven is perfect
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They're already called reverse bullet hell?
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.
It should be more in inverse bullet hell: it's hell, but not for you.
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!
I didn't know that, but it fits. That or bullet heaven.
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.
I always thought of it as a Hord game
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.
Pew Pew Woosh.
Epilepsy-vania
GPU Fryer.
S3: Survive and Shoot the Swarm.
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
The genre is ASS games. Can't go wrong with that.
I thought it was a survivor-like?
MOBA - massive onslaught bullet arena
FPS- Frantic Progression Survivor
RPG - Running, Progressively Gaining
Walking Death Simulator
Isn't it already Arena?
Garliclike
lol saw this on a Steam Review and it is my favorite.
I've always heard Arena Survival