i'm feeling a bit like the guy from xkcd #606 lately because it seems i get on games a few years after the period where they're in vogue, but ive been playing a lot of vampire survivors lately and wow i get why this game inspired a whole microgenre
@typhlosion if you want to talk about what makes it so good, I'm interested in your thoughts!
(I'm not sure I've heard of the game before today.)
@lioness you attack automatically and the only input you have in the moment-to-moment gameplay is moving around and selecting which powerup you get when you level up, which sounds boring but winds up being quite satisfying, because you get strong enough over the course of a run that you wind up mowing down huge hordes of the smaller enemies
also runs have a time limit, usually 30 minutes, which makes it easy to play for short periods. you CAN circumvent the limit but not til much later
