What is roguelike? A roguelita? Metroidvania? How about “type Dark souls«? Steam went to work and tried to explain what some of today’s most popular subgenres consist of … to tell you the truth, without much success, or at least that’s what I feel after I got a little digged into the organized celebration of a great online store with games and how could it be otherwise, accompanied by special sales, which you can still use.

In To the Dungeons: Festival of Perseverance on Steam, they fully entered all those denominations to identify subgenres of subgenres that, if they do not try to be limited by specific parameters, can very well describe what you have in front of you. tah pera. But it only serves that. It’s like judging a book by its cover, it doesn’t always work as it should, and if you follow it, you’ll often be disappointed. The same thing happens with terms like the ones we face.

Therefore, it may be useful to answer “roguelike” or “metroidvania” to the question of what you are playing, but only if the person in front of you understands the game and only if you add an explanation, because… what does it mean that you play roguelike? What a game you play and Rascal original 1980, in which the stage is a randomly generated dungeon with permanent death, turn-based combat…? In a special article on the subject, they say I don’t know what agreement was reached at the developers’ convention about fifteen years ago…. But not.

Rogue, original from 1980

A handful of developers don’t deal with something as abstract as roguelike, nor do they want something as seemingly angular as metroidvania. Maximum “type Dark souls»For the sake of the term, which simply refers, forgive the redundancy, the reference to the genre, in this case an action game with hints of RPG, high difficulty and a fantastic but dark environment. It’s like saying a game “type.” super Mario“Or” type Call of Duty«. That’s how we understand each other.

However, if you stay in mere roguelike, the only thing ordinary mortals will understand is that it is killer dungeon… Game type devil«? If it is the case that the more you try to immerse and refine, the worse, the more confusing it is. For things like this, I said in the last analysis I did, the one about Imp of the Sun.who preferred to call it games 2D action and platformer instead of metroidvania. For starters, because it has nothing to do with Castlevania.

But the fact is, when you start viewing roguelike or metroidvania games on Steam, you’ll find a lot of them that don’t have much in common, and even step on each other. For example, Hollow knight It’s a very cool title that I would also describe as a 2D action platformer with its own nuances. However, it is listed on Steam as 2D, platformer, metroidvania and “type.” dark soul«. Take it now! What am I saying, do you need so many roles?

I think yes Hollow knight It’s metroidvania, it is understood that it is at least a 2D platform, although it is not just that. Type” Dark souls“it is beating around the bushes, because what it brings closer is that it has a dark atmosphere. The point is, this thing about games and subgenres works a bit like language, you can’t force inclusion or some way of talking because people do what they want. And what is he doing.

For this reason, you may be wondering what this whole story is about, when it is evident not only that it has no solution, but that it is bullshit without any real meaning. Well, it’s Sunday and I wanted to. For nothing else. Well, that’s it the dungeon sale ends tomorrowIf you want to go fishing on some roguelike, roguelite, metroidvania, «type dark soul«… or simply a game of this style that interests you.

Yeah Al that sounds pretty crap to me, Looks like Humble Store aint for me who doesn’t like it. After all, games are games.