Comment on Why there are 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam all of a sudden
Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 2 months agoThe genre can be called “rogue like deck builder” all you want, we all know what it really is: “Spirelike”
Well, you did. And you also directly acknowledged that the genre already has a name.
It seems to be your opinion that it needs another one, even though the name it has is already so well established that it has its own steam tag.
huginn@feddit.it 2 months ago
Sorry I interpreted
As a statement calling for a genre with it’s own name.
Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I meant that to say, it’s a genre that deserves to be distinguished from just one of the many games that define it.
As a rephrase of that comment, defining the 5 games I listed after one game that basically just came before them would be dishonest because of how different those games all are from Slay the Spire and each other. That’s why the genre is named after what they all have in common, which is a mashup of two existing genres.
What you’re proposing would be like renaming the first person shooter genre to “halo-like” or “call of duty-like” just because those games predate a lot of others and people like them. It’s unnecessary and loses the descriptive quality of the name it has.