https://store.steampowered.com/charts/mostplayed/
Looking at the most played list on steam is depressing battle royale shit, moba shit, Team Fortress 2 ( almost certainly filled with bots and fake player counts ). I sort of get GTA V because modded private servers but that must be a nightmare to deal with because of how cancerous rockstar studos are these days. I'm going to try and get myself into Terraria after a million years since I bought it because that's singleplayer and offline and doesn't run like shit.
I mean for fuck's sake, even though it's objective trash there are still people clearly downloading and playing Battlefield 2042 of all things. I would sooner watch paint dry than deal with any of this crap that the normies are playing and I can see why all of you retreat to the safe space that is classic gaming but even for me I feel like there's only so many times I can play a game over and over. The games that frequently make their way to the top of the charts are constantly reported on having major technical problems with them and it's mind boggling to me that people will make themselves play that.
We don't have to settle for this.
Games industry went to this moonshot model of chasing after the big hits that earn 1 billion dollars to offset the 500 million dollar development & advertising cost. Problem is if you are making games this big you can't take risks or do anything that's not pushing you toward mass market low-IQ normies
The thing I hate the most about modern game design with regards to how it caters to exactly who you describe is really the controls because even when it comes to the 'action' games now the controls are so retarded all you're doing is usually hitting a context based button depending on where you go in the 'game' and it's become utter cancer in big titles.
It does explain why these kinds of games have gotten so popular and are the most widely advertised though because yes, anybody can play them but at the same time that's not really an achievement because games are supposed to have some degree of challenge or a point to them. Which is why so many gamers now call them walking simulators especially compared to older games. You could almost certainly program a bot with machine learning to play these games they're that easy.