Dapplecap Glade

You come back from your first solo hunt to find your village burned to ash and soldiers combing through the wreckage. Running blind into a stretch of forest your people always avoided, you take a deal offered by something that isn't human, in exchange for a new home and a way to fight back.

That home turns out to be a settlement carved out of the deep woods, built and defended with help from the fae and spirits the old stories warned about. Nothing from them comes free, and the game doesn't pretend otherwise.

Day to day, you're running the glade itself: gathering resources, expanding the settlement, and recruiting the monster girls and other denizens who settle there with you. Threats get resolved through turn-based JRPG combat, and a character creation screen lets you shape your own protagonist before any of that starts. The relationships you build along the way, human, fae, or otherwise, are as much a part of keeping the place standing as the fighting is.