Same here. There are several titles that are unplayable solo without the digital version available.
I don't play many of the digital to board games the other way because I don't play enough digital to see how the mechanics would map, how the IP translates, etc. I tend to avoid polish as well as I am decidedly old school.
This was more an experiment to see if this was even remotely possible without removing the essence of the game play. This game existed digitally with board game sensibilities to start. I wasn't planning on demaking it to a physical format but here we are.
Fun stuff.
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Despite having been a programmer for a tech company, I have many difficulties with digital UIs -- ofc I was always a backend specialist, so if I could run everything through commandline and terminal UIs I really would!
I'm very happy with analog board games because of their tactile nature as well. It's kind of the same principle why woodwork or crochet is neat -- you're interacting with the physical world in a creative way. It's highly grounding in a way that pure digital just isn't effective at.