I immediately skip any games that are described as "roguelike" or "soulslike" - Lemmy.World

They seem so popular, dozens of games coming out, and reviews often positive. But When I see “Roguelike” I imagine a game that’s too small to be a real game, so they made it so you can never win and just have to keep trying and you’ll get a decent number of hours out of it. With just enough progression each time that you start to believe it’s possible you’ll get somewhere meaningful. When I see “Souls-like” I think of a game where the difficulty is only there to give people with too much time on their hands a sense of superiority. I have roughly a thousand games in my various libraries and I have never played a game in either of these genres. I feel fine being so unreasonable about this.