Games like Among Us, RV There Yet, Peak, Lethal Company, etc. I don't mind them so long as there's no woke elements to them, though I've never actually played any of them myself. I have two groups of streamers that I like (Fooster/Fisk/Olafpawbelt and Splitsie/Capac/TFE/Shack) that play them from time to time and it's pretty enjoyable watching them. These sorts of games strike me as games that are more meant to be watched than played yourself. I doubt many of them sell that many units, and they typically are only popular for a couple of weeks before being replaced by the next one.
I bet a lot of copies sold are people who think 'oh man, this looked like fun when I saw $streamer play it, I can't wait to play it with my friends' and then they never do. They seem to be pretty cheap, so if an indie dev can provide a few weeks of enjoyment for $9.99, honestly there are worse ripoffs in the gaming world.
I mean, they KNOW their audience, streamers and their audiences, so really it's 'meh'. It's like those farming games on mobile, they know their audience and also know that if they try to wokify it, they'll lose audience since people ONLY want basic mechanics from it, not a lecture.
They will toe the line until they get popular enough that Blackrock offers them that ESG payout, then nothing matters. The CEO gets his sweet bonus check and everyone else loses. The employees get to find new jobs after their studio inadvertently tanks, gamers get to continue spending hours doomscrolling the steam store, and society just keeps heading on the Weimar trajectory.
ESG is over as Blackrock CEO himself says they quit funding it as it produced no returns for investors.
I think the most you'll get nowadays is nepobabies making games like mixtape because we hit critical mass and normies reject it themselves. Just look at Ubisoft.
Now they'll fund BRIDGES instead. (Guess what the E, S, and G stand for in it.)
So, they're just in it for the love of the game at this point? Pun intended.