I genuinely feel like this notion that you have to elevator pitch everything as "it's like X and Y game!" is just pure brain rot. If you have to market your game as being like another game, you're already misstepping. People who would care would already see what inspired it.

@Programancer It's usually just a quick way for investors to know which buckets to put your game in, marketing like that towards your core audience can even be detrimental in my opinion

@AlexandreMTH Yup! It's just to entice the cash cows by dangling keys of currently popular and successful games and saying you're making the next one, whereas the actual audience has a bit more understanding and time to figure out what a game is trying to do