I've just been calling them exactly that: vampire survivors like. It's a mouthful, so I'm open to the alternatives.
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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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
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.
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!
Bullet Heaven
Bullet Heaven is an old bullet-hell game playable here. Naming the genre that is stupid.
Projectile Nirvana
No two things can ever share a name
This is the one I always hear these days.
I heard it from the Castle Superbeast podcast.
Yup, this is the one.
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.
Garliclike
lol saw this on a Steam Review and it is my favorite.
Digital crack
Dragon chaser
Freebase gaming
Addiction "simulator"
It's an autoshooter isn't it?
Vampire Survivors would be a rogue-like autoshooter.
Like Backpack Battles is an autobattler.
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.
I've also heard Autoshooter. Seems as good of a genre name as any.
MOBA - massive onslaught bullet arena
FPS- Frantic Progression Survivor
Survive Em Up
I like my shootemup games personally
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
Pew Pew Woosh.
Epilepsy-vania
GPU Fryer.
S3: Survive and Shoot the Swarm.
I always thought of it as a Hord game
passive swarm shooter
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.
Attack-Evader
Walking Death Simulator
I thought it was a survivor-like?
I've always heard Arena Survival
Isn't it already Arena?
The genre is ASS games. Can't go wrong with that.