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Death to the self-playing game. www.jank.cool/death-to-the...

Loop Hero is a good example, because it leans more on the side of a sim game, managing a hero in an automated NES RPG with city builder elements on top, and there's high interactivity there. It'd say that fares way better than the automated KRPG's like recent Ragnarok entries which are fully auto.

In Ragnarok M and X you're literally just watching a game be played, occasionally tapping a prompt, accepting the rewards, and levelling up - pure mindless dopamine. I'd say that is more of what we should avoid. But the defenders will argue they don't have time to play, or it's more accessible.

I mean, do you think people who have aquariums should get rid of them?

We also know from mobile game design that these types of games also reinforce a behaviour pattern, you open the game, you get the reward, you spend the currency, repeat. It's not something intrinsic to auto-play games, but it has become an often utilised design pattern which doesn't smell right.