This game just came out last week, I think some here might enjoy it.
It has very simple TTRPG-inspired dice mechanics and the story has me hooked
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
You play as someone whose consciousness has been bought and transferred into a synthetic body to perform labor in deep space, but you have been waylaid at a hub station while being shuttled to your assignment. This could be your chance to escape...
A DRM free copy is available on GOG-games.com
Its 10% off on Steam until May 12th if you want to support the dev
I'm sick and can't sleep as a result of the meds either so I've just smashed through 3 playthroughs in the last 24hrs or so and I... absolutely... fucking... loved it.
It's got some of the better video game writing I've seen in a while, the world building is superb, it's politics are excellent (although it doesn't railroad you into them obnoxiously), the character art is lovely, the subtle soundtrack is gorgeous, and at least one of my endings had me sobbing uncontrollably for at least quarter of an hour.
My only criticisms would be that even on my first playthrough it felt fairly trivial to survive and do what I wanted before long, and that if you choose to avoid an ending option or two the pacing slows waaaay down towards the end as you wait for new things to happen. But those are pretty minor criticisms really given how good it is.
Yes if you just avoid pulling on all the plot threads at once, you have fewer timers to work against. Thats how I've been doing my second run