vampire survivors is neat but not for me
I had a feeling after watching a youtuber play it that I wouldnt like it much, and was pretty sure of the reasons why - I've played a lot of different idle games over the years, and the was VS manages progression is just pure idle game mobile design.
That doesn't make it bad by my standards, it's just kind of an uninteresting puzzle to me these days. That is, there's basically no puzzle, the numbers will be going up, and we have a schedule to keep to.
This relates to my "managed progression in roguelites" thing but honestly is so much more distilled - there's really not much game outside the progression here.
I get the appeal of that, but I'm worn out on it.