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I had always interpreted the Walking Simulator label as a pejorative and never paid any attention to games described this way. Recently though I got The Invincible because some of the screenshots reminded me of old John Berkey paintings and I'm a total sucker for that kind of stuff, and I just absolutely loved it. I'm looking forward to trying out Firewatch.

I think the label originally was pejorative, but then fans of the genre took it as their own. Personally I like walking sims and I think it's a hilarious way to describe them, but yes it was originally some neckbeard complaining about how as a genre they're barely even games

And they are barely even games. Which is awesome. Sometimes I want to play a game, sometimes I want to watch a movie. Sometimes I want to do something in between

Yes exactly, and this is the beauty of games as a medium.