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
Finished my 2nd playthrough the other day, and I really enjoyed it. As MolotovHalfEmpty said, once you're just waiting for something to finish (looking at you mushrooms and tree) it gets pretty slow, but over all I enjoyed it. I think I pursued all the plot threads I could find, and I enjoyed all of them. The ambience and writing are great, I usually have a podcast or music on while I play something, but this time I never did.
I will say, I wish there was a proper stay on the eye ending. I've heard it justified as that being the ending, as your character goes through living their everyday life, but it's kinda unsatisfying. I would've also liked a way to more... permanently change the eye. Because you can do the quests and kick out the corporate bastards, but in the end nothing really changes. I can only think of one where a name changes, which is a nice touch. It'd be better if I could see what kicking out corporate influence meant beyond my own character.
Overall though, still a great game, enjoyed it immensely.
Yeah, a more shifting balance or political situation on The Eye would be nice and probably doable within the scope of the game, but in retrospect I wonder if the devs sort of deliberately avoid that to tell a more personal story about what it means to make a life.