There is something to be said about all video game genres being wrongly named. I mean when you look at some romance written in first person, that takes place i

There is something to be said about all video game genres being wrongly named. I mean when you look at some romance written in first person, that takes place in Victorian era, you don't call it a First Person Victorian novel. You call it a romance novel. Art is usually named after feelings it evokes and less on the actual techniques used. Maybe puzzle/idle games are only games that actually have descriptive names. You play a puzzle game because you want to solve a difficult problem. You play a shooter because you want some carefree violence. In lieu of that, Roguelikes definition misses the mark completely. You can have a Roguelikes experience without any of the stuff defined in Rougelike Berlin definition. Noita is real-time; Elona/Caves of Qud allows save and load; Elona has little procedural generation outside wilderness and random events;