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A game has a set of goals, and you can quit it without dying.
If there's no set of goals, it's not a game, it's a toy.
If you can't quit it without dying, it's not a game, it's real life.
(Does real life have a set of goals? Depends who you ask.)
Technically the goal is for your DNA to spread itself. Everything else is just made up by humans.
That's its goal, not mine!
Huh. Turns out I use most of my games as toys, not games. I rarely finish games, usually getting a lot of stuff done, high leveled, etc, then just enjoying it until I decide ro start over. I also regularly go back to games like Ark, 7 days, City Skylines, Civ VI(but often strip out ein conditions so I can keep playing), FFXIV, etc.
Sure I make short term goals that I complete, but usually not done everything and complete story to win unless doing so gives me something else to do, like New Game+.