Scarlet Chains: Fallen Athena

Athena wakes up broke in a town that owes her nothing, and every door in it opens for a price. There's no clean way through — just choices about what she'll trade, and to whom, with people who don't forget the answer.

The town runs on debts and favors, so the game runs on relationships: talk your way into work, take jobs after dark that daylight wouldn't allow, and fight what comes after you in real time rather than through menus. A day/night cycle keeps reshaping what's available and what's owed, and the cast tracks what you've chosen closely enough that it comes back around.

It's still early, with new areas, a boss fight, and crafting and farming systems being layered in as it goes — the kind of build where the town is clearly bigger than what's currently walkable.