Spoilers ahead: for the puzzle and the movies/games
This page reveals all categories and answers for this puzzle. It also discusses plot details, story endings, and other spoilers for some of the movies/games shown.
easy
Developed by FromSoftware
Dark Souls · Bloodborne · Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice · Elden Ring
medium
Auto-battlers
Teamfight Tactics · Dota Underlords · Auto Chess · Hearthstone Battlegrounds
hard
Survival games where resources decay around you
Don't Starve · Rain World · Pathologic · The Long Dark
Each of these makes the world itself the enemy. Food rots, equipment breaks, the temperature drops, the disease spreads. You are not really fighting monsters. You are fighting a clock dressed up as a setting.
tricky
Built around a time loop
Outer Wilds · The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask · The Sexy Brutale · Twelve Minutes
Each game ends, then begins again, with the player keeping their knowledge but losing everything else. The puzzle is figuring out what to do differently next time.