Nehyr

Waking up dead with no memory of the rules is bad enough; watching your own existence fade on top of it means you don't get time to figure things out slowly. You need crew, income, and a reason to keep holding together, in that order.

You captain a ship that's also a traveling tavern, crossing the realms of Yggdrasil to recruit the crewmates you find along the way and put them to work. Running the place keeps you funded and keeps you existing; sailing between worlds keeps turning up new problems, and trouble gets settled through rhythm-based combat rather than talk.

The loop sits somewhere between management sim and adventure: staff the tavern, keep the ship moving, fight when fighting is the only option, and manage what needs managing to stay solvent and intact.