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Most single player games are not "true games". They are puzzles. This is also how players perceive them.

This is definitely news to me, I have not ever met someone who feels this way who plays videogames.

I put that in quotes because I didn't want to emphasize the terminology but maybe it didn't work. Whatever they call them, players treat games with equal opponents who can win, and games that are only a series of challenge entirely differently. The issue I'm talking about is developers trying to insert competitive agents into games which gamers expect to be a series of challenges.

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