So I've been playing some Vampire Survivors and games like it.
Good games: Vampire Survivors itself, 20 Minutes to Dawn, Holocure, Project Lazarus. Not great: Soulstone Survivors, Spirit Hunters. I'll talk about why inside this plurk.
Holocure is a creative take on this formula with each character's signature weapon and skills making them pretty distinct from each other. Suitable for a game about famous and distinctive personas.
The passive items are more interesting than those of Vampire Survivors and since weapon evolutions fuse weapons instead of requiring specific passive items, you can just choose ones that fit the vtuber you're playing as.
Instead of weapons and items you choose skills/traits that modify various aspects of your gameplay like making you attack faster, adding a chance to trigger status effects, making lighting strike every two attacks, or triggering an effect when you shoot your last bullet (did I mention there's a reloading mechanism) and much more.
The permanent upgrades are pretty interesting too and you can only choose one out of three to be active in each tier in the two offensive/defensive upgrade trees
Good games: Vampire Survivors itself, 20 Minutes to Dawn, Holocure, Project Lazarus. Not great: Soulstone Survivors, Spirit Hunters.
I'll talk about why inside this plurk.