A bit far to drive!
Re: the adventure game genre, these are definitely experiences. Talisman, for instance, needs everyone to be in the mood to let pareidolia take over. The game is about the beer-and-pretzels conversation and the story of the characters.
“[We] could probably play a dozen games of Codenames in the same time.” — and only about one turn of Here I Stand, but I’d much rather play the latter. It’s about fun bandwidth, which isn’t a matter of how many atoms of play are completed.