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Yep!
Its mostly a thing with multiplayer rpg type games, but, the term 'the meta' most broadly, at this point, basically just means 'best strategy'.
You could have a meta in a shooter game, for gun/armor loadouts that go well with certain tactics, maybe fast ninja with smgs and flash bangs always beats tanky bomb diffusal armor with a mini gun, for some reason.
You could have it with dark souls type games, a single player (basically) game with a bunch of possible skill tree builds and classes and weapons and such.
But, linguistically, its also kind of weird because 'the meta' can also refer to... all of those possible strategies, at once, within one game... or even a similar class or family of games!
Or 'a meta' or 'the XYZ meta' could also refer to a singular strategy within a game, or maybe a family of related strategies within a game.
... It makes more sense if you just regularly hear people using the term outloud.
As a longtime gamer, Iโm definitely familiar with the concept. I had just never heard it referred to as โthe Metaโ before
Thanks!