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I've been playing the solo campaign for Hero Realms lately to get it off my shelf of shame and it's great fun but these kind of deck-builders where you accumulate all kinds of points from all over the place on each turn work so much better when the app does the counting for you. The bookkeeping just makes it less of a game to pick up whenever you fancy a quick game and more one you only look at when you're still feeling a bit mentally alert. the star realms app I can sit and play mindlessly any time, the solo challenges were my go-to for the london-brighton train journey back in the before times.
Some games just work better with something tracking things for you, slay the spire video game is just a card game but all the little accounting it does when you play cards tracking health points, status, energy etc would be mind numbingly tedious playing in real life. It's why even though it looks gorgeous I swerved the recent darkest dungeon kickstarter, there's no cards in that one but so many moving parts I can't see how it doesn't crawl when played in a physical medium.
HatBeard-
Yeah totally, even just eliminating the regular shuffling means the Star Realms app is my go to now (even if it's terribly designed in some places).
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A couple of friends and I played 7th Continent and felt similar. It was such a grind and all the admin (both physical and also game-based) just sapped any enjoyment from the experience. We touched it out for something like 18 hours of gameplay in total and it’s now our yardstick for tedium :-)
Shame as there were so many clever ideas that could have been enjoyable.
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AlexD
Star Realms is a two player card game which is ridiculously good. So good in fact that I downloaded the app to keep playing it as much as possible.