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Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms has just passed the one year mark since I started with it.

Characters range from one to five stars in power, and while I’ve unlocked all of them I haven’t got any 4* character up to maximum level let alone a 5*, it’s calibrated to really slow things down in those higher levels so there’s no danger of ‘completing’ it. There’s something about matching 3 things that remains strangely compelling, with the powers of the characters to mix things up a little and the ongoing levelling and unlocking for a sense of progress. It’s my mobile game of choice for killing five minutes when waiting around, or when half-watching something on television or half-listening to a call. There’s a regular drumbeat of new character from across the Marvel pantheon to unlock and level up after a couple of years I worked my way through the whole backlog, and now keep pace with the newcomers. I’ve been ticking along in Marvel Puzzle Quest for four years now, also a pretty decent run for a match-3 game. Each month a set of historical decals are made available with various challenges, typically getting a number of kills or a certain score with appropriate vehicles, and I’m finding those are a perfect hook – achievable in a sensible amount of time, and a nudge to play various different countries and vehicle types to mix things up. New vehicles are frequently added, now pushing well into the 1980s, but thankfully my Second World War focus means I can happily bimble about the lower tiers where it doesn’t take hundreds of hours to nudge up a progress bar.

The oldest faithful is War Thunder, I’ve been regularly playing over nine years now which is pretty staggering. Some combination of those seems to be the key to holding my attention long-term, so I thought I’d do a little compare and contrast.

They’re all free-to-play, though, so share many of the persistent elements that tends to bring – rewards/unlocks, achievements/badges, daily/weekly missions, experience points and resulting ranks/levels. I’m currently juggling an assortment of regular games, quite different at first glance: a combat vehicle simulator, a match-3 puzzle game, an idle dungeon crawler, a collectible card game, and a music trivia game.