Unfortunately for computer games there is no such scale. Obviously computer games have a weight too, from something like Angry Birds at the low end to something like Europa Universalis IV at the high end. There just isn't a weight score listed on Steam or elsewhere. But my preferences for video games are similar to my preferences in board games: Trivial games bore me, while highly complex games are too daunting to try.

On my previous post, reader Shilgrod commented: "Have you played rimworld? I think you would like it". Rimworld has been on my Steam wishlist for years. And whenever I watch a video or stream of somebody playing it, I think "this looks too complicated, I better stay away". Probably Shilgrod is right, and once I got into the game I would like Rimworld. But the barrier to entry is high. Somebody starting to play probably doesn't understand many of the game mechanics initially, and in a game about survival that can quickly go catastrophically wrong. Another game I would probably like if I ever could overcome the barrier to entry would be Dominions 6, coming out next week, but I never managed that feat in the previous 5 incarnations.

Weirdly there is some influence of pretty graphics on this. The higher weight games I have played and liked, like Age of Wonders 4, had pretty graphics. Games that look like a marriage between basic graphics and an Excel sheet are harder to get into. I'm not sure why that is. Maybe there is just a correlation between a game like Mind over Magic being both easier and prettier than Rimworld.