Could be a genre, a developer/publisher, or franchise. What’s the video game equivalent of fast, not particularly good, but maybe a guilty pleasure?
I’m prepare to be hated for this one but …
Cyberpunk 2077. (At first I was thinking CoD but I’m no multiplayer player) There’s no new mechanics, if you know the source material there’s also nothing new. Dialogues are so so and the expansion story line is awful.
In my opinion it’s a basic game with a new gen console veneer, anyway I’ve played the story 2 times
Any of the King Bejeweled ripoffs.
Almost the entire mobile game industry. Copiously available, cheap, hollow, dopamine hunting, etc.
Most mobile games. They follow one of a few basic formulae, they rarely have anything original, and they’re full of bloated ads and other garbage. But they know how to give that dopamine hit.
