ASTELLA SAGA

The World Tree of Astella feeds on mana and keeps the whole realm running, so Heaven keeps angels down there watching over it. Then one day the reports stop coming in, and nobody upstairs knows why.

A single angel gets sent down to find out what happened to the others, which is a polite way of saying she's walking into whatever quietly went wrong with an entire monitoring operation. Astella doesn't seem eager to explain itself, and the people and creatures she runs into along the way have their own ideas about what an angel is for.

You move her through this world in RPG fashion: turn-based fights against the local threats, conversations that lean on the game's own dry humor, and encounters that test how much of her composure survives contact with Astella. The setting plays it fairly straight for a story about a fallen communication line, then undercuts itself whenever things get personal.