NPC Tales: The Shopkeeper

The hook is that the player character breaks the fourth wall the world doesn't know exists. Other characters wait for inputs, cues, gameplay triggers; you can just walk up and act. That gap between how NPCs behave and what you're actually capable of doing is the whole point of this demo, framed here through a shopkeeper who reacts to your presence in ways the rest of the "cast" mechanically can't.

As a point-and-click slice, you spend the time poking at the shop environment, working out which actions actually register versus which are just scenery, and pushing on the seams between scripted NPC behavior and the freedom the game keeps hinting you have. It reads as a proof of concept for a bigger free-use sandbox rather than a finished loop, so don't expect much beyond this one interaction to be fully built out yet.