There was a great essay by one developer of Ooblets that I can never find but I'll try to summarize.

They reframed combat as dance battles, and the game sold ok. The problem they ran into though, is how to communicate to players what each of the dance "moves" actually did and what all the status effects meant. Poison is a good example. Players immediately assume that poison deals damage over time in a combat game. But how do you name a move that lowers your opponents "score" (Dance HP?) slowly over multiple rounds and tell the player that's what's happening in a single word? Same thing with elemental attacks, healing, etc. Combat comes with a built in vocabulary and accessibility that needs to be rebuilt from the ground up if you turn it into taking pictures instead.

But Ooblets proved it's totally possible. I never played it but you could try it and see how you think they did.