It’s not even an original concept. It’s just the popular kid.
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MurrayL@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t think we need an article to figure out the answer: Slay the Spire was a megahit and it’s a copycat industry.
I don’t necessarily mean that in a bad way either; there’re always plenty of devs finding interesting new angles on the current hot genre and creating genuinely interesting new games in the process, but also a huge number of devs that end up just chasing the trend and releasing something uninspired/derivative.
Etterra@lemmy.world 5 months ago
huginn@feddit.it 5 months ago
The genre can be called “rogue like deck builder” all you want, we all know what it really is: “Spirelike”
Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I really think it deserves its own genre. Games like Cobalt Core, Balatro, Tower Tactics Liberation, Alina of the Arena and Loop Hero are all unique in their own right and very different from Slay the Spire but still hold to the deck building rogue-like core.
Slay the spire is the granddaddy of the genre, but isn’t the single defining example by far.
huginn@feddit.it 5 months ago
Right but Rogue isn’t much like modern Roguelikes either. It’s still the genre.
Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I think the “rogue” in rogue-like refers to the fact that you start over if you die. Not the similarity to the actual game. Am I misunderstanding you?
I think I get what you’re saying, that rogue-like was named after the game and therefore this genre should be named after slay the spire. But I think Rogue named the genre because there wasn’t anything else like it. Slay the Spire is still at the end of the day a mashup of two existing genres.