Comment on Why there are 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam all of a sudden
Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 2 months agoI 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.
huginn@feddit.it 2 months ago
Rogue was the start of the genre - games that came after we’re always measured against it.
Rogue was a dungeon crawler - a type of game that had been done plenty of times before. Starting over on death had also been done.
But it became genre defining by being the best at both.
Spire I’d say is similar. It is genre defining because the combination of gameplay elements was so perfectly executed that it will become the measuring stick against which all roguelike deck builders will be measured. So Spirelike fits, I think.
Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Are there any other genres named after games? I’d say rogue is the exception.
huginn@feddit.it 2 months ago
Soulslike and Metroidvania spring to mind.
As games become more and more complex these kind of genre defining sets will become more common I think.
Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I do see your point, but in this specific situation the genre already has an accepted name