I played this game called.. “Cute knight” while looking up adventure games on greg costikyan’s blog. The demo does not even begin to cover what this game is about.
My general impression is that it’s a great game.
There’s no real story. You just wake up and you’re in a town, and you’re allowed to visit and interact with a number of locations.
You’re supposed to kind of discover yourself. And the game is very open-ended, allowing you to do just that. It’s said there are about 50 endings to the game.
The main mechanics I interacted with were exploration, work, combat, stores.
Each of these mechanics seemed to affect and be influenced by a number of stat bars, such as “DREAM” bar, current HP max HP, CHARM, etc.
Here are the notes I took on game mechanics while playing. Not really necessary to read it, but it gives the conclusion some depth.