Look at sports/movement games such as RingFit or Zumba Dancing. Or for mental tasks, there are games related to logical deduction (Return of the Obra-Dinn) or language learning (The Expression Amrilato) and so on.
Sure, none of those are perfect on their own. But options exist!
I’d like to play a video game that would level up my real life stats.
download godot and some tutorials and you can make a game that levels up your game making stat as you make it
and every game you play levels up your game playing stat
become a streamer and you can level up your money stat
Those exist tbh.
Look at sports/movement games such as RingFit or Zumba Dancing. Or for mental tasks, there are games related to logical deduction (Return of the Obra-Dinn) or language learning (The Expression Amrilato) and so on.
Sure, none of those are perfect on their own. But options exist!
I mean, edutainment exists. It’s just rarely good.
Play Turing Complete.
If you can finish it without copying solutions wholesale, you’re ready for writing assembly in the real world.