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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.