It doesn’t necessarily have to be a game, just an app or something that’s for fun but I’m really curious
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Don’t know if it’s available on Linux distros not based on Debian or for other OSes, but Debian has a console version of the puzzle game 2048 in its repos that works well enough with espeakup. My only complaints is that there is a lot of extraneous blank lines that slow down board review a bit, blank spaces are represented with unvoiced whitespace, and because the piece theming is powers of two, syllable counts rise quickly… Great for keeping the hands busy while listening to YouTube videoes and low enough mental load to not distract from most videos and laid back enough you can take as long as you need for every move.
If you haven’t heard of 2048, it’s played on a 4*4 board and each turn, the game generates a 2 or 4 on a random empty space. Pressing an arrow key makes all tiles slide that direction as far as possible, and if tiles with the same value collide, they fuse into a single tile with their combined values, but this doesn’t cascade(e.g. pressing left will turn the line 2 2 4 8 into 4 4 8 blank and you’ll need two more left taps to condense down to 16 followed by three blanks(assuming the game doesn’t put new tiles in those blanks). You could say the goal is to build a 2048 tile, but you can actually go further(I’ve made 8192 a time or two and the largest tile possible is 131,072 according to Wikipedia.
Fair warning, a single game can last hours and the further you get, the longer it takes to make further progress, both because it takes twice as many moves to make each larger tile and because it takes longer to review a board with lots of high value tiles. Once tried to make my own version using an alphabetic theme(since all English letters except w are monosyllabic), but I got stuck on trying to implement arrow keys if memory serves and didn’t want to settle for single letter command enter controls… Granted, that might have been before I discovered the console version and because the graphical mobile version was making the rounds on another forum I frequent.
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This would depend on platform and genre, but yes, you have options. There’s an app in the Microsoft store on Windows called Grid Games. I mainly use this for the sudoku, but there are others including one that works like mine sweeper. If you’d like to tell us what genres you’re interested in, and your choices of platforms, that would help, because there’s quite a bit out there.