I think almost everything in the current market can be called gambling. Especially in cases where a person, not understanding the issue, acts on a whim after reading exclamation headings about NTF.
90% of NTFs are not bought and are useless. Those that buy usually buy 1 or 2 times. This is a beginner trap.
Agreed, Lot of NFT project out there right now didn't have any real use case especially games, You can see lot of NFT games right now have same economic and the gameplay itself didn't even fund and basically just copying the Axie Infinity Concept. I think it's normal since we are still on early phase but there are tons of good NFT concept out there and the if you want to play then i should recommend MIR4, Iluvium (Upcoming and Alice.