In video games and real life, there is more complexity, as in more dimensions that solutions and actions have to address, but I would argue that the underlying skills, search and evaluation or judgment are used for all. See Jonathan Baron’s book Thinking and Deciding for a detailed view of how those two, search and inference (in his terms), underlie all thinking tasks—problem solving, decision making, planning, learning, and creativity.
In video games and real life, there is more complexity, as in more dimensions that solutions and actions have to address, but I would argue that the underlying skills, search and evaluation or judgment are used for all. See Jonathan Baron’s book Thinking and Deciding for a detailed view of how those two, search and inference (in his terms), underlie all thinking tasks—problem solving, decision making, planning, learning, and creativity.