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Games have a "Walking Simulator" genre now for this purpose.Depending on how you define the word "game", these games don't qualify as such. Games typically have rules and players can lose by either not following the rules or not meeting the requirements, i.e. not reacting fast enough, not performing as well as the other competitors, and so on. In short: A game means that you can fail/lose. The most extreme examples can have you dying ONCE and needing to start a new game or from the very beginning with no gear.
You can't fail or lose in these games. Nothing can attack you, meaning you can't die or faint. You can't fail things like speech checks. All you do is essentially walk from NPC to NPC, from scene to scene, find items and complete requirements to initiate the next encounter.
If you define "game" as an entertaining activity with no other goals other than being entertaining, then these games qualify as games. Shallow, yes, but to quote Maximus Decimus Meridius "Are you not entertained?!".
This is a walking simulator, those are generally "story-driven" things that go from plot point to plot point.
No failstate, no losing, just watching events unfold like a somewhat interactable movie.
With that said Crysis on the retarded new graphics options purposely made to be bad runs better than this on my PC.
In that sense, it's a game, but only in the fact that if you run it too long you'll be spending thousands to restore your PC after it catches fire.