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. 🤢

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

I am pretty sure boomers are not FPS gamers.

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’.

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

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.