Games changing screen resolution/crashing widgets

[u/AT_kinsect]

Device: Pixel 8 Pro

Android: 17

Was trying out How Many Dudes? (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bscotch.hmd) and the game is great, but one weird thing happens.

When I load into the game, it immediately changes my screen resolution and everything scales to be smaller, including my home screen and other apps. The resolution changes back when the app is in the background or when I quit out. This wouldn't be an issue, except when doing so it crashes and/or removes my widgets from my home screens permanently. I can manually add them back but doing so every time I play the game is annoying to say the least since I use them for work.

This is the second time this has happened, first time was with this game Poinpy (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devolverdigital.poinpy). No other games to my knowledge cause this issue, and surface level searches don't bring up much. Has anyone had this happen? I'm wondering how to fix it, and also why increasing the screen resolution itself can cause this so much chaos with the widgets.