Forget about commanding armies, fighting monsters or killing soldiers from the Third Reich. Take a breath of fresh, creative air with these to, poetic games : Cloud and Flow by Xinghan "Jenova" Chen
You will understand why they were presented at the experimental gameplay workshop and received several awards since.
For more details about his wonderful philosophy, don't miss his presentation about Designing games for Entertainment.
After spending too many hours grinding through the same tasks, killing wave after wave of the same monsters, fighting incomplete games with incomplete patches, repeating the same parts of a game again and again because nobody thought about allowing a proper save mechanism... I wish more game designers and their marketer masters would pay attention to these principles.
Games should be fun !