My thinking is something like a copy of WinRAR submitted to the IGF along with instructions on how to play it as a game. Imo it has to be a "found object" of a utilitarian type that gets recontextualized into a game. We don't really have the museum or gallery equivalent that automatically makes anything in it Art, which is why I think you need the instructions to make it "playable", combined with the IGF submission (a public process that is maybe the closest thing to an Official Stamp of Game that has an open submission). But I'm not sure! Maybe I missed something important...
One of the comments pointed me to Fountain 1917: https://somnolentsucculentstudio.itch.io/fountain-1917
especially since before i even started, i told @atomicthumbs
the only really funny outcome is if steam is like "this isn't a video game, you didn't make this, fuck off"
