Almost the entire mobile game industry. Copiously available, cheap, hollow, dopamine hunting, etc.
Call of Duty
Any of the King Bejeweled ripoffs.
Rogue-likes.
Any game like vampire survivors.
Passive bullet hells.
Literally people say its the thing they play when they dont have the energy for something else the way that people use fast food to replace cooking.
Easy to spin up and there are so many knockoffs that are "fine" but barely different.
It's easy and pretty much automatic but filled with dopamine giving stimuli even if it wears off really fast. It makes it about as addictive as fast food too.
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.
Cookie Clicker (and clicker games in general)
Ubisoft games (and anything with a similar vibe)
Perfectly competent, comfortably boring, you miss nothing by skipping it but if you're bored it helps.
The exact kind of Content (TM) the word "slop" is supposed to describe.
For me it is the games with lot of sequels like assassins creed or those sport games i dont think it is necessary bad game. For me the fastfood tastes like ok not the best not worst so nothing surprises me i will get what i expect same it is for me with assassins creed i like those games and i know what to expect from them really a comfort game for me.
In my opinion, these are absolute slop:
Gacha genre, it feels like. Addicting, but ultimately terrible for your health, though maybe a bit inverted, fast food affecting the body and as a consequence the mind, and gachas first the mind and as consequence the body.
Did you know YouTube has games now? They load near instantly, easily accessible on mobile or desktop, and they're p much all shit. Most of them are basically generic asset flips or imitations of popular mobile games. I really can't think of anything closer to cheap fast food.
Sounds like Roblox
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
You’re allowed to not like the game, but “fast food?” It’s a massive RPG with AAA production and hundreds of hours of content.
“Fast food” would be short/shallow experiences that are just designed to be addictive like clicker games.
Agree to disagree
Cyberpunk have clear gamification mechanics in it but that’s not the point.
Fast food food are easy to digest with low effort production, Cyberpunk don’t try to incentivize something new, it used mechanics that we have seen a hundred of times and clear story beats for all its plot points.
Don’t get me wrong, you’re allowed to have fun with it but there’s nothing new in there
You’re clearly missing the point of OP’s post. This has nothing to do with novelty or creativity.
A steak isn’t original or avant-garde, but it’s certainly isn’t “fast food” even if you think the steak is cooked poorly.
I think you’re just conflating “shallow” with “bad”.
Amen to that. We Cyberpunk haters are few, but we do exist.
It's diabolical how a Cyberpunk game can have such little customisation and such a shallow world with virtually nothing to do outside of missions.
Bloons TD fits this for me, I play it when I'm too ill to think properly but still need something to pass the time
Any crappy pixel sidescroller, eg.the Google Dino game
Hmm… I think this one is gonna be personal because people enjoy genres to varying degrees.
For me, it's Konami's PES (eFootball now, or FL2025 if you're modding)
Start career mode, buy players, play a season, forget about it, and repeat like a month or two after. It's a fairly mindless activity to me and I do it when I wanna give my brain a break.
Most phone games.
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