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.
Metroidvania is a stupid name and always has been. I say this with those 2 series being 2 of my favourite and metroidvania being one of my favourite genres.
Bullet heaven isn’t too bad though.
I like “search action” instead of Metroidvania. Credit to Tim Rogers.
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.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.
They call it a rogue-like because there is meta-progression even though you “start over” each run.
They’re already called reverse bullet hell?
I didn’t know that, but it fits. That or bullet heaven.
Bullet Heaven is the name of an existing game, don’t clobber it with a genre name.
An existing game from newgrounds posted 14 years ago. I don’t think it’s going to cause that much confusion.
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.
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!
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.
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.
MOBA - massive onslaught bullet arena
FPS- Frantic Progression Survivor
RPG - Running, Progressively Gaining
Twi-like
Digital crack
Dragon chaser
Freebase gaming
Addiction “simulator”
I thought they were auto battlers?
I always thought of it as a Hord game
passive swarm shooter
You should also crosspost on !vampires@lemmy.zip
Swarm shooter, reverse bullet hell, or enemy hell
Walking Death Simulator
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.
Pew Pew Woosh.
Epilepsy-vania
GPU Fryer.
S3: Survive and Shoot the Swarm.
