As somebody that generally enjoys both action games and especially roguelikes, I am familiar with the frequent discourse around what is or is not a roguelike/lite. Instead of joining that discourse, instead, I am here to be an angry person on the internet in a different direction.
I do not like the phrase “action roguelike” being used to describe the genre of games that I’m going to, for brevity, call “Vampire Survivors” clones. Calling a game that shares almost no similarities to Rogue and requires less inputs than most other games an “action roguelike” feels deceitful and misleading.