I am often willing to take a punt on a game that tries to do something creative and interesting.

take a punt on

scratches head

This has to be one of those cases where British English and American English mean essentially opposite things for the same phrase.

googles

Yup. Well, this goes on the list with "moot".

Apparently in British English, this is "take a risk on doing something" and in the US it means to skip doing that thing.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/punt-on

to risk money by buying or supporting something, in the hope of making or winning more money

US informal

If you punt on something, you decide not to do or include it:

We punted on a motion that makes no sense.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/punt

(Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK) To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally

TIL. I guess it makes sense with the British English term "punter".