Yes! Hahaha, yes. I'm in full-on sickos.jpg mode today with the announcement of 17 new tags being added to the Steam store, with the very first entry on the list canonizing the name for what has become one of the most popular PC game genres in recent years. That's right: the genre birthed by Vampire Survivors is, according to Valve, officially Bullet Heaven.
"The opposite of Bullet Hell; Focus on upgrades while automatically attacking hordes of enemies," describes Valve, in a completely uncontroversial move that will surely upset no one at all. Here's the fancy new tag page on the store, if you'd like to browse through the top charts entries like Megabonk, Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor and Soulstone Survivors.
The attempt to put a definitive name on this style of minimal-input shooter has perhaps been trending towards bullet heaven for a while now; there have been multiple "Bullet Heaven Festivals" on Steam, with the most recent in December including a poll Read Entire Article
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