Is it? To you maybe but for others perhaps a release of emotions, anger, stress etc or just being able to be places in a made up universe after a long day's work just to unwind all the tensions of the day.
We all play game, different games, for many different reasons.
Personally, I'm not all that keen on cartoon'y looking games and find alot of them too gimiky (for my taste) but not disturbing.
Each to thier own I guess, which should always be the case.