s it possible to play the game without the software?
No, not really. While it’s our goal is to expose every rule and calculation present in the game to players, the sheer quantity of calculation involved in each step makes it very impractical to be done by hand. To give you an idea, the team was playing using excel spreadsheets during the testing process, and it took our developers a full 8-hour day to finish a single game. We know a few of you are real math geniuses, but the majority is not. Thankfully, the game comes with a cool Rule Keeper software that takes care of all the calculation… you might as well use it.
