Games and play in general teach us time management, planning, pattern recognition, friend/foe identification, cooperation toward a common goal under pressure and more - all skills that helped our hunter-gatherer ancestors survive.

The desire to hone those skills in a low stakes environment where our lives are not on the line is one theory as to why games and play are so important to humans.

I think that the games we play will always reflect the skills and mindsets that are most evolutionarily important for the species. I don’t know what those skills might be in the future or if they will ever truly change but I’d bet that our games will always mirror them.