I was having fun with Ghosts of Tsushima.

I wanted to save my people from the Mongolian army.

I walked into a village held hostage by mongols.

I was killed. It didn't load a save, it just continued the game.

I woke up in the same village.

A man was washing the side of his house. A few other townspeople were milling about.

There were no mongols.

All the people in the game are just fleeting random encounters, nothing is real, you die and get transported a few meters away, infinitely, without consequence.