It really depends on what your definition of "the popular ones" is. One of the most popular games is Candy Crush, which is not a 100 hour story game but fairly

It really depends on what your definition of "the popular ones" is. One of the most popular games is Candy Crush, which is not a 100 hour story game but fairly quick mobile activity game. On the other side you have Ubisoft's genre of "brainrot" games, which on the one side will have a compelling story, but on the other will have hundreds, if not thousands of similar repeating side-activities that people can jump in and out of without needing to think too much. And on the other other side you have story-rich games, e.g. God of War or RDR 2, which have a film-like setup and budgets to match.