The solution is simple: consider game-recs are shopping recommendations. We don't do the latter, so we don't do the former.
I propose a new close reason for emphasis, so that askers don't start arguing on the close reason blurb:
Shopping list
This question asks for buying or playing recommendations. List questions are not suitablenot suitable for this site and are better handled on our chatroom.
The first link should really only link to a page with Grace's essay.