It was probably worded poorly, but i kinda meant single player games as OP was.

Multiplayer games, especially free and easy to run ones have much more staying power. Single player can sell millions and not be in most popular list in couple months since it just ends and people move on.

My point was that new games rarely innovate anything, and just do the things that have proved adequate, just make it pretty and it looks good on trailer.

Part of the problem is that fun gameplay mechanics and gameplay loops are harder to market that new pretty flashy graphics. Those in charge don’t play games and don’t know what makes a game good, so they are just pushing for prettier graphics and forget the actual game part.