there's ones that actually have well-made stories and there's a lot that are just journobait. For example, the story of Halo isn't exactly nobel prize territory, but it's not any less competently executed than garbage like Firewatch and tearjerkers like To The Moon.
Since it is a traditional "boy's story" and Halo is skill-based (in a broadly electric-undergroundian sense) it will never be considered like that by the critical mass of journos.

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