Specifically, ones that aren’t chock-full of mobile game enshittification and in-app purchases?
I don’t mind paying for games but I’m sick and tired of predatory monetization schemes and will immediately uninstall a game if the tutorial insists on showing me a store page.
The YouTuber “Wanderbots” covers a ton of games akin to Vampire survivors and the genre has a pseudo name of “bullet heaven” (opposite of a bullet hell). Plenty of amazing ones like “Death must die” though I cannot remember all the names off the top of my head, just take a look through the videos and I’m sure you’ll find a ton
I like swarm survivor as the genre title myself.
Did vampire survivors really create the genre?
I think bullet heaven works in the sense that you spray the bullets, but it is also a swarm survivor too so I can agree with that as well.
I don’t believe it was the first, but I do believe it was the one that brought the genre to the spotlight. Since Vampire survivors came out the genre has taken off and we’ve seen a great many takes on it which personally, I’ve enjoyed. I find the rather short gameplay nice for fitting into tight schedules and non-commitment gameplay