Kotlin - MutableStateFlow Emmision is Never Received

When I change the isInFavorites property of the GameData in a different fragment I can see that the change is received in my repository's listener but when I navigate back to the fragment, my viewmodel never receives the updated value when I use the MutableStateFlow.

Strange enough, when I change my flow to the MutableSharedFlow, all of a sudden viewmodel starts to get the updated values as well. Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? I need to use the MutableStateFlow here and it's not working.

Repository:

private val gameDataListResultMutableFlow: MutableStateFlow<Result<List<GameData>>> = MutableStateFlow(Result.Loading)



    override suspend fun observeGameDataList(): Flow<Result<List<GameData>>>
        {
   

      CoroutineScope(Dispatchers.IO + coroutineContext).launch {
                localGameDataSource.observeGameDataList().collectLatest{
                     if(it is Result.Success)
                     {
                        Timber.d("local data change favorite value of item 0: ${it.data[0].isInFavorites}")
                     }
               
                    gameDataListResultMutableFlow.emit(it)
                }
            }
    }

Viewmodel:

private suspend fun observeGameListResult()
{

    gameRepository.observeGameDataList().collect{

        if(it is Result.Success)
            Timber.d("data change received in viewmodel value of item 0: ${it.data[0].isInFavorites}")

        gameListResultMutableLiveData.postValue(it)
    }
}


fun getGameListResultLiveData(): LiveData<Result<List<GameData>>>
{
    launch(coroutineContext) {
        observeGameListResult()
    }

    return gameListResultMutableLiveData
}

Logs When StateFlow is Used

LOADING THE INITIAL STATE, ISFAVORITE VALUE IS TRUE

D/DefaultGameRepository: local data change favorite value of item 0: true
D/GameListViewModel: data change received in viewmodel value of item 0: true



SWITCHING TO ANOTHER FRAGMENT TO CHANGE THE ISFAVORITE'S VALUE TO FALSE, WHICH IS RECEIVED ONLY BY 
THE LOCAL SOURCE LISTENER

D/DefaultGameRepository: local data change the favorite value of item 0: false



SWITCHING BACK TO THE INITIAL FRAGMENT AND THE UPDATED VALUE OF THE ISFAVORITE REFLECTED ON THE LOCAL SOURCE LISTENER BUT NOT ON THE VIEWMODEL LISTENER---

D/GameListViewModel: data change received in viewmodel value of item 0: true
D/DefaultGameRepository: local data change the favorite value of item 0: false

Logs When SharedFlow is Used:

LOADING THE INITIAL STATE, ISFAVORITE VALUE IS TRUE

D/DefaultGameRepository: local data change the favorite value of item 0: true
D/GameListViewModel: data change received in viewmodel value of item 0: true
    

SWITCHING TO ANOTHER FRAGMENT TO CHANGE THE ISFAVORITE'S VALUE TO FALSE, WHICH IS RECEIVED BY LOCAL 
SOURCE AND THE VIEWMODEL LISTENER
        
D/DefaultGameRepository: local data change the favorite value of item 0: false
D/GameListViewModel: data change received in viewmodel value of item 0: false
    

SWITCHING BACK TO THE INITIAL FRAGMENT AND THE UPDATED VALUE OF THE ISFAVORITE REFLECTED ON THE 
VIEWMODEL   
 
D/DefaultGameRepository: local data change the favorite value of item 0: false
D/GameListViewModel: data change received in viewmodel value of item 0: false
D/GameListViewModel: data change received in viewmodel value of item 0: false