@LehtoriTuomo@actuallyautistic "More than just running around and killing shit" was, honestly, a huge part of the appeal of the classic game Adventure for Atari. You know, the one where you are SpongeBob SquareKnight and the dragons looked like ducks. You did have to run around with your (very pixelated) sword and fight the dragon-ducks, but there was an actual open world (tiny, by today's standards, but utterly unlike anything else before the original Nintendo console) that was at least a much fun to explore as any of the actual game mechanics.
Adventure was one of maybe 2 or 3 Atari 2600 games I was still playing regularly when the console and controllers began to die in the late 1980s.