“-Likes” could literally be a genre of its own with video games. So many derivatives of something that was original/a better take on the original that they don’t even get an actual genre name unless it stays around for like 20+ years, and even then is no guarantee. We’re lucky First-Person Shooter isn’t just called “Doom-like.” Or “Action RPG” getting coined at all because people were sick of calling games like that “Diablo clones.”
“-Likes” could literally be a genre of its own with video games. So many derivatives of something that was original/a better take on the original that they don’t even get an actual genre name unless it stays around for like 20+ years, and even then is no guarantee. We’re lucky First-Person Shooter isn’t just called “Doom-like.” Or “Action RPG” getting coined at all because people were sick of calling games like that “Diablo clones.”