Comment by orthoxerox

Games need async/await for two main reasons:

- coding multi-frame logic in a straightforward way, which is when transforming a function into a suspendable state machine makes sense

- using more cores because you're CPU-bound, which is literally multithreading

Both cases can be covered by other approaches, though:

- submitting multi-frame logic as job parameters to a separate system (e.g., tweening)

- using data parallelism for CPU-intensive work