Horripilant Kill your god, become worthy

You walk an old knight down a forsaken dungeon, and the fighting runs itself: combat plays out on its own based on your gear, so the real decisions happen before the sword swings. Spend your materials on the helmet or the blade, hire creatures to mine while you are away, then push deeper until the monsters start winning and crawl back to camp. Every run leaves you stronger. Over a thousand floors, the loop tightens: descend, gather, upgrade, descend again. It is slow-burn by design, and it works best if you let the numbers climb while you do something else. The second half leans harder on that grind, so patience is part of the deal.

Floors you clear leave key items in your inventory, and the game hands you strange puzzle pieces with almost no guidance. Cryptic rhymes, odd objects, a camp full of things that do not explain themselves: working out where a twig or a bone fits is on you, and the answers reward actual logic rather than moon-logic guessing. Solving one opens new features and pushes the story forward. The puzzles start easy and later ask for some genuinely outside-the-box thinking, and a few are abstract enough that you will be re-reading the game's strange texts carefully.