You could always make a fortune investing in good projects early, imagine all the good coins and tokens that you think you could have gone into early.
I think you are in the right direction with the metaverse and GameFi, its a rising industry and has a lot of really cool projects. Im currently into playing some P2E games with AXIE and invested in a project called ENGN, they make blockchains that can be used on existing games, and that sounds like a cool concept to me. They had a cool gameplay trailer for a unreal engine game, you could check it out.
You can also take a look at some DeFi projects, DeFi is really hot right now, it just makes sanse to stake some of your portfolio to let it increase.

You can try out SushiSwap, Fantom or ReFi. And by try out i mean research, never go in blind.
You are only seeing the good outcomes you can get by investing in those coins while you are not thinking about all the bad things that can happen, which by the way are much more likely to happen to you than the outcomes you describe.
The ratio of new good projects to scam projects is incredibly low and I will venture to say that more than 80% of the new coins that you see are either scams or just terrible projects, now you may think about just avoiding all of them right? But that is just impossible, since those scammers and useless developers make their utmost effort to convince investors they are just like the few good projects that appear, making them indistinguishable from each other, so you are basically left with no choice but to take the risk and invest in a project just because you believe in it, could it work? Yes, but I would not count on that.