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What is it about the games Rogue, Doom, and Diablo that got whole genres named after them? Doom-likes later came to be known as FPSs, but still, we never had a "Final Fantasy-like" or "Mario-like" genre. And both of those are unquestionably influential games!

@Rosemary a lot of genres started as "game-likes". we had GTA-likes for a while iirc

my understanding is that everyone hates "roguelike" as a name for the genre but no one has come up with anything bettec

@monorail Is there another name for the Diablo-like genre?

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