Video Games That Feature Parrying Are Getting Called 'Parryslop' All Over Social Media

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Parryslop is a slop slang term used to disparagingly refer to video games that feature a parrying mechanic, including examples like Expedition 33, and soulslike games like Dark Souls. The term was first used online as early as January 2025 to criticize Doom: The Dark Ages and Ninja Gaiden 4. It became increasingly popular throughout 2025 leading into early 2026 as people debated whether or not parrying is an overused mechanic in modern video games.

Origin

On January 23rd, 2025, Bluesky user @celialicious posted a version of the I Hate the Antichrist meme where a man labelled "FPS & action game fans" with a gun yells, "I hate parryslop!" while being chased by blue helmet wearing men labelled as Ninja Gaiden 4 and Doom: The Dark Ages yelling, "We've got you surrounded! Come stand perfectly still and press a button precisely on cue!" The post gained about 26 likes in a year. This is the earliest known meme to use the term.

The meme was reposted by X user @Evilagram on January 24th, garnering over 420 likes and 78,000 views in the same span of time.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-hate-the-antichrist meme. The meme is about hating parrying in video games.

Spread

The term "parryslop" spread steadily throughout 2025 as debates about parrying mechanics in video games also became more popular.

On January 25th, 2025, Redditor u/Resident-Peach-3668 made a post on the /r/ninjagaiden subreddit complaining about Ninja Gaiden 4 being deemed parryslop, inspiring over 95 upvotes and 85 comments in a year.

On May 14th, Bluesky user headfallsoff posted a meme about calling baseball parryslop, garnering over 1,500 reposts and 6,000 likes in eight months.

i’m gonna assume grandchildren aren’t in the picture near term then."

On May 27th, Aftermath published an article by writer Riley MacLeod titled, "Parrying Is The Worst Thing In Video Games." On May 29th, the Second Wind YouTube channel uploaded a video on the topic titled, "Why Are Modern Games Obsessed With Parrying?" garnering over 289,000 views in the same span of time.

On December 16th, X user @DisquoVeriii made a post about the Expedition 33 AI controversy in which they call the game parryslop, garnering over 12,000 likes in a month.

On December 23rd, Gamespot published an article by Khee Hoon Chan titled, "I Hated Parrying, Until I Played Clair Obscur: Expedition 33."

A post about Expedition 33. It reads, "how it feels to have a moral excuse to never finish that french, ai generated, UE5, stock asset filled, french, $10M, melanin devoid, hollywood actor using, french, hyper realistic, bloom steep, french, weak dialogue, cheap feeling, sterile, banal art style, french parryslop game."

On January 11th, 2026, X user @BillyBobboLOL posted images of the games Cuphead, Pizza Tower and Ultrakill, writing, "Genuinely whats up with all the 'Parryslop' indie games from the last decade, is it just me asking this?" garnering over 1,100 likes and 320 comments in three days.

On January 12th, the post was reposted to the /r/Ultrakill subreddit, along with a comment defending parrying in games as fun, gaining over 5,400 upvotes and 500 comments in two days.