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It could happen, but especially if the game has at least some popularity on a platform like Steam I expect someone more tech savvy than average would smell a rat and start looking, or ask around, and it'd be found out.
I don't know exactly how those work, but I imagine on top of weird CPU usage it would make very suspicious network calls too. There's always a guy that sees stuff like that and goes "where the fuck are my cycles and packets going?"
Yeah you'd think, but when I worked in cybersecurity the thing that freaked me out the most is how often this just doesn't happen. It can happen immediately or it can take ages.