Maybe I focused too much on the terms. They certainly don't think of the word puzzle, but they do treat them as that. Someone playing Zelda doesn't go into it

Maybe I focused too much on the terms. They certainly don't think of the word puzzle, but they do treat them as that. Someone playing Zelda doesn't go into it ever expecting Ganondor to try to win. The player either solves the game, or they stop playing. But they can't lose, which is why I called it a puzzle. In comparison to something like Chess AI where the computer agent is actually trying to win and make you lose. So you'd find players asking whether it's single or multiplayer and competitive or casual and so on and they're really trying to place the game in that categorization. Is this game just a series of challenges for me, or are there opponent agents trying to win.