The World After Silence

A virus wiped out the world nobody understood, cities emptied out, and the people left over have to scrape by day to day. Some of them adapted. That's the whole premise, no cure to chase, no conspiracy to unravel, just survival as the ongoing condition.

You play through that condition in text and stat menus rather than cutscenes, managing a character who has to find resources, deal with other survivors, and navigate whatever relationships come out of that. Later on the game opens into settlement building: put up houses, set survivors to work, arrange defenses, and grow the place from a few tents into something resembling a community. It's less a story you're told and more a situation you manage, one day and one decision at a time.