I'm going to teach you to love hidden object games

Summary

It's a fact: Hidden object games have a less-than-stellar reputation among the gamer cognoscenti. They're commonly viewed as low effort, vacuous, beneath the notice or caring of real gamers⁠—a sort of proto-slop, in many ways, that predates the rise of AI. They're games your mom plays. Ewwww. Dramatic exaggeration? Not really. Back in 2016, we published a…