I am trying to order my posts by a meta value so that I can show the most popular posts. But it is returning the latest posts instead.

//WordPress loop for the custom post type
        $popular_args = array(
            'post_type'         => 'games',
            'posts_per_page'    => 6,
            'suppress_filters'  => true, //Just in case something else is interfaring.
            'orderby'           => 'meta_value_num',
            'meta_key'          => 'view_54ygtt',
            'order'             => 'DESC',
            'meta_query' => array(
                array(
                      'type' => 'NUMERIC'
                )
            ),
        );
        $popular_query = new WP_Query($popular_args);
        while ($popular_query->have_posts()) : $popular_query->the_post();

            //Get the template
            echo get_the_title() .' - '. get_post_meta($post->ID, 'view_54ygtt', true) .'<br>';
    
        endwhile; 
        wp_reset_query(); ?>

Result:

Sample Post 6 – 1282

Sample Post 5 – 25719

Sample Post 4 – 88999

Sample Post 3 – 77354

Sample Post 2 – 7948

Sample Post 1 – 1526

It should be:

Sample Post 4 – 88999

Sample Post 3 – 77354

Sample Post 5 – 25719

Sample Post 2 – 7948

Sample Post 1 – 1526

Sample Post 6 – 1282