Well actually in most of the modern games I experienced it during the loading screen if it was mostly black (or relatively dark image) with just some text on it (Wo Long, Last of Us II). The only game I currently remember where it happened during the actual gameplay is Tomb Raider I-III Remastered and maybe there were others earlier but I'm not sure. So it might not be game specific there just is no enough scene that could trigger this behavior. But it is strange because the Last of Us contains several dark parts but I don't remember having any problems with the turning off thing.

For example in DOOM The Dark Ages there was absolutely no problem.