I pulled a few quick examples (they’re from YouTube, Reddit, Netflix, and TikTok), but I know there are others I’m not aware of or can’t think of. Repeatedly, social and content platforms will introduce this very out-of-left-field “games” section filled with mostly slop-tier browser games. I don’t understand why. Is there really an audience for this, or is it just something that tech companies wind up doing because they’re fun to build and the SWEs managed to trick management into it? What’s the endgame?
The only reasoning I can think of is (a) children are into it somehow, or (b) management has zero understanding of gaming and thinks they can become Steam by adding flappy bird clones.
I actually tried a few of the YouTube playables, they are total slop as you would expect. There was one where you “race” against a bot with a flag next to their name to make you think you’re playing against a human from a random country. It was incredibly easy to win every time, and your score just went up and up and up endlessly. Draw climber I think it was.