Noble Utopia

You play an ambitious noble looking to turn every connection into leverage, growing a mansion, a staff, and a network of useful people rather than swinging a sword for its own sake. It's a slow climb dressed up as a fantasy romp, with the seduction running alongside the politics.

The only story available so far is Act 0, set in the once-prosperous Valley of Waterfalls. A mysterious noble and their loyal servant arrive in a place clearly past its prime, and the locals have opinions about that.

Day to day, you explore five locations around the Waterfalls, recruit followers who come with their own arcs, and fight through a JRPG-style turn-based battle system stocked with plenty of enemies, six classes, and a pile of skills and items to sort through. Relationship-building doubles as the game's other resource loop, with animated scenes marking the milestones. As the name of the act suggests, this is still just the beginning of a much larger climb.