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
I mean, edutainment exists. It’s just rarely good.
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!
Play Turing Complete.
If you can finish it without copying solutions wholesale, you’re ready for writing assembly in the real world.