Someone mentioned Earthborne Rangers a few threads ago. Played through the campaign on TTS instead of playing proper vidya, and I gotta say, it's not good.

The gameplay is mostly a chore. The core loop makes no sense - I stand around, and fucking trees and rocks keep appearing around me every turn that I need to clear before I can even interact with whatever my goal is.

Some concepts are interesting, like the challenge system which causes objects and beings to act in certain ways (predators hunt prey, bridges fall apart, shit like that), but any of the more interesting interactions are rare, and made rarer by the risks involved. If you want a predator to eat a flower and be exhausted, you have to keep it active which means there's a risk it might simply injure you instead. So the main prerogative is always to clear away anything that is threatening, which removes the possibility of these interactions happening to begin with.

Speaking of injuries, fuck this mechanic and everyone involved in creating it. A single injury is basically a run ender since it slices the amount of turns you have remaining in the day in half.

The combination of the path cards and the challenge system makes the game so random so as to make one day a walk in the park, and another so brutal you'll be happy to make it out of a single location alive. Sometimes the game shits out several predators and obstacles at you immediately, with no real way of clearing them, and other times you get a bunch of flowers and friendly NPCs.

And finally, once you get past several days and know what you're supposed to do, the real slog sets in. Every single fucking location you want to traverse is a fresh setup of obstacles, that keep multiplying and refreshing themselves in your path over and over. And you might easily need to travel 4 locations to get to your destination.

tl;dr Get 7th Citadel instead. It is 10 times better and it has far less bullshit randomness and mindnumbing chores.