I’ve heard “reverse bullet hell”, it’s decent.
Twi-like
You should also crosspost on !vampires@lemmy.zip
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.
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.
Distilled roguelite
It’s a horde survival shooter with upgrades
Sucky N Fucky
Other comments said it but I think bullet heaven is perfect
Let’s just stick with survivor, or survivor-like. It works fine for roguelikes and soulslikes. No need to force a genre name.
Survival games are already a thing, though.
So? SurvivAL is not the same as survivOR.
Seems like an insufficient difference for two genres that are so distinct. Plenty of opportunities for confusion.
Action, Adventure, and Action-Adventure are all different genres. I think people will figure it out.
Those aren’t words that can easily be confused for each other due to accents or minor variance in pronunciation.
And besides, we already have a genre name for Vampire Survivor-alikes. They’re bullet heavens.
Bullet Heaven
This is the one I always hear these days.
I heard it from the Castle Superbeast podcast.
Bullet Heaven is an old bullet-hell game playable here. Naming the genre that is stupid.
Wait, It’s a new grounds game? So not even something that’s been published?
“Somebody somewhere used that name for their hobby project 13 years ago so now it can’t ever be used for anything else”
No two things can ever share a name
Projectile Nirvana
Yup, this is the one.
Too late it’s Vamvor.
Vampvore
roots in voreaphilia
Vampier
Survivor
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.
Looks like it’s too late. I Googled bullet heaven and it took a few minutes to find the actual game, which is ironically a bullet hell game.
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.
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.
I didn’t come up with the name, that’s just what people have been calling it for as long as I can remember.
Just like Vampire Survivors!
Garliclike
lol saw this on a Steam Review and it is my favorite.
I thought it was already considered a reverse bullet-hell. But I do like Bullet heaven as well.
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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.
