Valve Makes "Boomer Shooter" An Official Genre On Steam

bearly anyone who's a boomer is playing these games or probs has ever played them short of seeing their kids boot it up. if anything these would be gen x shooters. People don't seem to even know wtf a boomer is. boomer for gen z seems to = anyone over 40 lmao.

I'm not sure if the name stems from the Baby Boomers or, like, "BOOM! Headshot!" Because Doom and even Wolfenstein were the games of my very millennial youth, and didn't exist for most of most Boomer's life time.

That said, my dad (who is a boomer) played the shit out of Doom and Heretic. But stopped when Quake came out and everything started centering around aiming with the mouse. He always used the mouse to move. 🤢

It's a perfectly cromulent genre

Lol I thought the genre was called boomer shooter because you have an arsenal of guns that go boom while circle strafing and holding the mouse button.

I love these sort of games, Painkiller is my fav

On a semi-related note: Is there a commonly agreed upon term for games like 'Vampire Survivors' yet and does it have its own tag on Steam?

So far, I've only found 'Action Roguelike', but that one has a lot of games that are, well, action based Roguelikes, like 'Binding of Isaac' and 'Risk of Rain'.

What was wrong with calling them doom clones? That’s what they were called until gen z made OK boomer a meme

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Boomer shooter sounds like a game where you have both guns and grenades.

They would be better called GenX shooters. Cheesy aaaand accurate!

That's really disappointing. Boomers did not make or play doom clones.

Weird. Considering us folk born in the early 80s got lumped with millennial. I was playing all the doom and doom clones in the library in middleschool.

Has anybody else noticed that boomer isn't the correct generation for this nomenclature? It's like people aren't using words literally or something.

I call anyone younger than me a "coomer" and any unnecessarily complicated rougue fps is a "coomer shooter". Does your game have a timer to purposely slow you down? Coomer game. I feel like the word "coomer" really captures the lifestyle and essence of today's unintelligent and entitled kids.