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Why GOATs Are GOATs is not a book about ""great games."" It is a book about why some games endure, while others collapse- even when they are bigger, prettier, or more expensive. Most game criticism focuses on content: story, graphics, characters, or emotional impact. This book argues that those are secondary. Players do not consume games. They live inside systems. What makes a game last is not how it feels once, but whether its structure can support meaningful time- time that can fail, repeat, detour, and still matter. Through close structural analysis of landmark games -from Dark Souls, Zelda, and RimWorld to forgotten failures and controversial experiments- this book identifies the shared architectural principles behind games that survive: Freedom as permission, not choice menus Repetition as rhythm, not labor Combat as decision density, not ""feel"" Narrative as emergent consequence, not scripted plot Failure as education, not punishment This is not a nostalgia piece. It is not a ranking. And it is not a review collection. Why GOATs Are GOATs is a framework- a way to judge games by how they treat the player's time. Because content can be consumed. But time, once wasted, is never returned.

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