One big point in games that I like is the possibility to be as deep as possible in the game and forget about what is outside the game I play.
Quotes about deep games
I think most games have a limited depth—a point at which you’ve basically got out of them everything there is to get in terms of discovering something new.
I like games most of all that cause me to think about how I will approach the next session when I am in bed in the evening.
I’m not of the school that a game should be short by principle. I like a deep game, I like a multi-layered game. As a player, if I play a game and crack it, get it from the get go, I’m probably not interested in playing it again. And that’s not what I want to offer to people who buy my games.
We’re mostly better off humbly accepting that a thousand years of folk refinement is always going to produce a deeper game than we can create in our mayfly lifetimes.