Just because low-budget games like Lethal Company and Peak are popular and played with friends doesn’t mean they’re slop.

Game Developer Xalavier Nelson added to this article:

I think one underdiscussed reason that people are gravitating towards these games is because they ask so little of your life going forward, too.
Most of them don’t have XP, or battle passes.
For almost any larger multiplayer effort that’s coming out these days, who could claim the same?