For what it's worth I tend to think our fascination with violence is what drives us to play violent games and not vice versa.
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Not all, but many games that remove that element end up feeling too flat and noninteractive. Or else the mechanic is very specific to a certain game.
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I'm thinking of how Hohokum sort of replaces violence with giving characters a ride on your snake, or Night in the Woods just has lots of good dialogue. But I think by and large a lot of our favorite games wouldn't be fun if you removed violence and didn't try make up for it.
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I think in the end it makes designing for games without violence more of a fun & interesting challenge. Not as always a 1:1 replacement, but as a completely different avenue for creation.
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i think its partly because killing enemies is one of the easiest dynamic game mechanics to design and implement.
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Which is why Undertale is fascinating. It takes that expectation, of the mechanics of violence and turns it on its head quite interestingly.
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I'm not sure that is the same as finding some completely different way to make it fun... you are still choosing actions from a menu make them leave you alone. I mean I could say all your bullets are love bullets and enemies fall in love rather than die but it'd still be a shmup
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undertale too
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I think the "fun" comes from people having some kind of effect on the world. But I don't think it's destructive by default. Games like SimCity are all about creation. Though I do think it is interesting that so many of the games we play do focus on destruction.
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