Elise and the Spellbinding Marionette

Elise works the adventurer trade out of Merkmar, taking jobs and reporting back like any other day's business, until she finds a girl collapsed on the wrong side of the road, unconscious and clearly in trouble. She brings her back to town instead of leaving her there, and that decision is where the actual story starts.

What follows uses that rescue as the hinge for a plot built around control and corruption, the kind where the person you save doesn't necessarily stay the person you saved. Monsters, rival forces, and things with too many limbs complicate the arrangement from there.

Outside the story scenes, the game runs on turn based combat, with Elise and whoever else ends up traveling with her fighting through fantasy encounters between town errands. Battles feed into the corruption and mind control threads rather than sitting separate from them, so losing has consequences beyond a game over screen. It's a straightforward RPGM adventure structure, jobs, dungeons, a party that isn't necessarily fighting on your side by the end.