Some games include launchers for practical reasons. Launchers allow you to change settings before having the game up, for example, which can be nice. They also sometimes can do mod management, though this is less common. Paradox does mod management through the launcher, for an example of that.
Usually the launchers suck though and only slow things down, but you can also usually use an argument to skip them.
Piing@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
use --launcher-skip start argument for CDPR games
aksdb@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ah, good to know. Thanks!