I play video games for artistic experiences. Someone once described it as discussing what games made me think about as opposed to what I do in them. It's why I'm even on this website in the first place - I just like to write about games and think about games.

Vampire Survivors is not the worst offense to my creative sensibilities that exists, but it is representative of something larger: the idle game genre. I don't believe there is anything inherently morally bankrupt about the idle game or enjoying it (though I certainly find a lot of the following of this particular one disgusting due to the level of harassment people have received for criticizing it), in spite of what people would strawman detractors of Vampire Survivors as believing, but there is also no meaning to it. The idle game is simply idle. I understand it is useful for people who find it hard to listen to something on its own and concentrate, but what I come to games for is simply not present.

I do not understand the appeal and praise. It's just another empty idle game.