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The Cure for Downtime Is Emotional Investment, Not Frequency of Choices

02 Feb 2026 2 min read
One of the big problems with turn-based games is downtime. Downtime is often framed as a lack of opportunities to make choices, yet plenty of games have low downtime despite stretches of
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